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So the mystery is this:  who ghostwrote the books that were published in Obama's name?
 
So the mystery is this:  who ghostwrote the books that were published in Obama's name?
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A prominent blogger, Steve Sailer, does this comparison between Obama's friend Bill Ayers and Obama's own book:<ref>http://isteve.blogspot.com/2008/10/did-bill-ayers-ghoswrite-obamas-memoir.html</ref>
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:Here are similar ideas on the unreliability of family anecdotes from the opening of each book expressed in somewhat characteristic language. Ayers writes:
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::As the journey to my birth was told and retold, stretched and exaggerated, it was as if the young couple had arrived by dogsled having crossed the Alps in a blinding blizzard.
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:The first half of Ayers' sentence sounds rather like Dreams, but the second half is too Erma Bombeckishly plain-spoken for Obama, whose literary dignity always accompanies him.
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:In contrast, Obama writes:
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::... as a child I knew [my father] only through the stories that my mother and grandparents told. They all had their favorites, each one seamless, burnished smooth from repeated use. ... That’s how all the stories went-compact, apocryphal, told in rapid succession in the course of one evening, then packed away for months, sometimes years, in my family’s memory.
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:On the other hand, it is the same thought.
 
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