"American, albeit a Communist. Neither allegation was supported. Gilbert rejected this position: ""... 'birthers' are barking up the wrong tree. It's not a question of where Obama was born — but rather, one of paternity."" Bill Armistead, the chairman of the Alabama Republican Party, called the film's theory ""absolutely terrifying."" Barack Obama’s estranged half-brother Malik Obama gave an interview to Gilbert and expressed interest in his theory. Gilbert's claim that Obama's mother posted nude, allegedly by Davis, was proven false after blogger Loren Collins found that most of the photos Gilbert presented as evidence of his claim came from a"
"involve bullets or soldiers, it has an unimaginable impact on the development of a nation. Wang Huiyao contends that a country's ability to develop and then retain its talent, will determine its future in the 21st century. Dreams from My Father is a memoir by the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama. It was first published in 1995 after Obama was elected the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, before his political career began. The CCG translated this book into Chinese and since then this copy of Obama's autobiography has sold over 250,000 copies in China."
"political memoir biography. ... It's unique. It's his. There are no other ones like that."" In an interview for ""The Daily Beast,"" the author Philip Roth said he had read ""Dreams from My Father"" ""with great interests,"" and commented that he had found it ""well done and very persuasive and memorable."" The book ""may be the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician,"" wrote ""Time"" columnist Joe Klein. In 2008, ""The Guardian""'s Rob Woodard wrote that ""Dreams from My Father"" ""is easily the most honest, daring, and ambitious volume put out by a major US politician in the last"
"His unexpected landslide victory in the March 2004 Illinois U.S. Senate Democratic primary had made him overnight a rising star within the national Democratic Party, started speculation about a presidential future, and led to the reissue of his memoir, ""Dreams from My Father"". His keynote address, although not carried by the commercial broadcast television networks, was well received, which further elevated his status within the Democratic Party and led to his reissued memoir becoming a bestseller. As the keynote speaker, Obama set the tone for the party platform. His speech, proclaiming the unnecessary and artificial divides in American culture and"
"giving up her state Senate seat instead of running for re-election in 1996. The following week newspapers reported that Palmer-supporter Barack Obama of Hyde Park—who had been announced as chairman of the $49.2 million Chicago Annenberg Challenge on June 22 and whose memoir ""Dreams from My Father"" would be published on July 18—would announce he was running and would be a front-runner for Palmer's state Senate seat; Obama began fundraising in July, created a campaign committee on August 7 and filed its statement of organization on September 5. Before entering the race, Obama spoke to about 30 elected officials in"
"would be giving up her state Senate seat instead of running for re-election in 1996. The following week newspapers reported that Palmer-supporter Obama, whose memoir ""Dreams from My Father"" would be published on July 18, 1995, would announce he was running and would be a front-runner for Palmer's state Senate seat. On September 19, 1995, Obama announced his candidacy for Palmer's state Senate seat to two hundred supporters at the Ramada Inn Lakeshore, where Palmer introduced and endorsed Obama as her successor. Sometime in the second half of 1995, Ayers and Dohrn hosted a coffee for Obama in their 4th"
"by an unexpected landslide—receiving 53% of the vote, 29% ahead of his nearest Democratic rival, with a vote total that nearly equaled that of all eight Republican candidates combined—which overnight made him a rising star in the national Democratic Party, started speculation about a presidential future, and led to the reissue of his memoir, ""Dreams from My Father"". The Democratic primary election, including seven candidates who combined to spend over $46 million, was the most expensive U.S. Senate primary election in history. GOP frontrunner Jack Ryan had divorced actress Jeri Ryan in 1999, and the records of the divorce were"
"Barack Obama's greatest speeches selected and introduced by columnist E.J. Dionne and MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid was published by Bloomsbury Publishing. The keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention (DNC) was given by then Illinois State Senator, United States Senate candidate, and future President Barack Obama on the night of Tuesday, July 27, 2004. His unexpected landslide victory in the March 2004 Illinois U.S. Senate Democratic primary had made him overnight a rising star within the national Democratic Party, started speculation about a presidential future, and led to the reissue of his memoir, ""Dreams from My Father"". His convention"
"reunite him with his stepfather. In 1971, Obama returned to Honolulu to attend Punahou School, from which he graduated in 1979 As a young adult, Obama moved to the contiguous United States, where he was educated at Occidental College, Columbia University, and Harvard Law School. In Chicago, Obama worked at various times as a community organizer, lawyer, Lecturer and Senior Lecturer of constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School in the city's South Side, and later published his memoir ""Dreams from My Father"" before beginning his political career in 1997 as a member of the Illinois Senate. Barack"
"the 1950s, and had rediscovered the painting when Dr Frederick G. Sampson delivered a lecture on it in the late 1980s (Sampson described it as ""a study in contradictions""), before discussing the image's significance in the modern world. Wright's sermon left a great impression on Obama, who recounted Wright's sermon in detail in his memoir ""Dreams from My Father"". Soon after ""Dreams From My Father"" was published he went into politics, entering the Illinois Senate. In 2004 he was chosen to deliver the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. In Obama's 2006 memoir ""The Audacity of Hope"", he"
"autobiography ""Dreams from My Father"". Obama has stated that he ""felt a beckoning of the spirit"" at this time. He has also said that his political/ethical beliefs are ""guided by his Christian faith"" including belief ""in the power of prayer."" Although Obama is a Christian, some July 2008 polls showed that some Americans incorrectly believed that he is Muslim or was raised Muslim (12% and 26%, respectively, in Pew and ""Newsweek"" polls). Citing the latter poll by CNN's Larry King, Obama responded, ""...I wasn't raised in a Muslim home,"" and he said that advancement of the misconception insulted Muslim Americans."
"developing the teaching of Computer Science and programming to students in the Humanities. In 2012 he championed a new degree in Computer Science and Philosophy at Oxford University (see Degrees of the University of Oxford). To encourage students in the Humanities to get involved in Computing, Millican has developed a number of user-friendly software teaching systems. In 2008 and 2009, some Republican commentators advanced claims that US President Barack Obama's autobiography, ""Dreams from My Father"" was written or ghost-written by Bill Ayers. In a series of articles in American Thinker and WorldNetDaily, author Jack Cashill claimed that his own analysis"
"at the age of 83. Charles E. Collins Charles Edwin Collins (16 January 1929 – 16 September 2012) was an American politician and activist. He was an independent candidate for President of the United States in the 1996 presidential election and sought unsuccessfully to run again in 2000. In 1986, Collins, who was a former Bay County, Florida school board official, challenged the use of ""I Am the Cheese"" and other books at the Mowat Junior High School his granddaughter attended. He wrote letters to the parents of all the students, and placed an advertisement in the ""Panama City News-Herald""."
"financial disclosure reports. The debt stems from Joseph Cannon's unsuccessful campaign for the U. S. Senate in 1992. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a nonpartisan advocacy organization, named Chris Cannon a ""member to watch"" on its list of ""most corrupt"" members of Congress for his dealings with his brother. Cannon offered Hertford College, Oxford philosopher Peter Millican $10,000 to prove that then-presidential candidate Barack Obama's memoir ""Dreams from My Father"" was ghostwritten by Bill Ayers by using computer analysis to compare that work to Ayers' ""Fugitive Days"". During the 2008 US Presidential election, conservatives attempted to link Obama"
"Charles E. Collins Charles Edwin Collins (16 January 1929 – 16 September 2012) was an American politician and activist. He was an independent candidate for President of the United States in the 1996 presidential election and sought unsuccessfully to run again in 2000. In 1986, Collins, who was a former Bay County, Florida school board official, challenged the use of ""I Am the Cheese"" and other books at the Mowat Junior High School his granddaughter attended. He wrote letters to the parents of all the students, and placed an advertisement in the ""Panama City News-Herald"". At a school board meeting"
"that same cloth"" as her father, the late former U.S. Senator Paul Simon, who had planned to endorse and campaign for Obama before his unexpected death in December 2003. On March 16, 2004, Obama won the Democratic primary by an unexpected landslide—receiving 53% of the vote, 29% ahead of his nearest Democratic rival, with a vote total that nearly equaled that of all eight Republican candidates combined—which overnight made him a rising star in the national Democratic Party, started speculation about a presidential future, and led to the reissue of his memoir, ""Dreams from My Father"". The Democratic primary election,"
"An American Life An American Life is the 1990 autobiography of former American President Ronald Reagan, ghostwritten by Robert Lindsey. Released almost two years after Reagan left office, the book reached number eight on ""The New York Times"" Best Seller list. The book is composed of 748 pages, describing Reagan's life from his birth in Tampico, Illinois, to his acting career, marriages, entrance into politics, years as Governor of California, loss in the 1976 Republican primary, and finally his years as President of the United States. Reviewer John O'Sullivan says of Reagan, ""[H]e shows a tendency, where other people's feelings"
"the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate—which overnight made him a rising star within the national Democratic Party, started speculation about a presidential future, and led to the reissue of his memoir, ""Dreams from My Father"". Late June 2004, after the withdrawal of his GOP opponent, 44-year-old Jack Ryan, found the 42-year-old Obama ""assessing his circumstances—the sudden elevation to political superstardom, the cascade of campaign cash, and the favorable, almost fawning, attention"", which soon yielded an invitation to deliver the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. By the eve of the July 2004 Democratic National Convention, Terence Samuel's ""U.S."
"and edited their Web sites to that effect, shortly before he released his conspiracy theory film that year alleging to have found new information about President Barack Obama's father. Gilbert's ""Dreams from My Real Father"" (2012), alleged that United States President Barack Obama's ""real"" father was an American communist. It was strongly criticized for its many unsubstantiated allegations about President Obama's birth and background. ""Slate"" said that the film ""peddles a conspiracy theory so convoluted that more traditional birthers must be envious of its creativity"". Both Jerome Corsi and ""The Hollywood Reporter"" stated that the film makes unsubstantiated allegations that"
"questioned its historical value and purpose. An American Life An American Life is the 1990 autobiography of former American President Ronald Reagan, ghostwritten by Robert Lindsey. Released almost two years after Reagan left office, the book reached number eight on ""The New York Times"" Best Seller list. The book is composed of 748 pages, describing Reagan's life from his birth in Tampico, Illinois, to his acting career, marriages, entrance into politics, years as Governor of California, loss in the 1976 Republican primary, and finally his years as President of the United States. Reviewer John O'Sullivan says of Reagan, ""[H]e shows"
"mentioned in Barack Obama's 1995 book, Dreams from My Father (pg 427 hardcover). Roberts encouraged and supported his many college applications and correspondences, while Kirk provided college recommendation letters. Kirk and Roberts raised the money necessary for Barack to travel to America. Kirk's grandfather was Addison Clark who, with his brother, founded the Addran Male and Female Academy which became Texas Christian University. She earned master's degrees from George Washington University and Syracuse University. In 1960, she married Elmer LeValley Kirk. They lived for a time in West Africa before moving to California. Kirk taught school in the Oakland area"
"from Princeton University in New Jersey, and received a Master of Business Administration degree in 1990 from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a self-employed investor and author. Morrow played basketball in high school. He then considered himself a political liberal and supported then Governor Michael Dukakis in Dukakis' unsuccessful Democratic 1988 campaign against Republican Vice President George Herbert Walker Bush. As a child, he helped his mother, Rosa Partlow Morrow, first win election in 1978 from legislative district 47 to one of 133 seats on the Alabama State Democratic Executive Committee, a position which his grandfather, William"
"in his 1995 book, ""Dreams from My Father"". In the book, Obama said ""Pot had helped, and booze. Maybe a little blow when you could afford it."" The issue was revived on the campaign trail after a November 2007 speech at a New Hampshire high school. Obama told the students, ""I've made some bad decisions that I've actually written about,"" noting that his ""drinking and experimenting with drugs"" accounted for a lot of ""wasted time"" in high school. Some, including Republican candidate Mitt Romney, criticized Obama for discussing these examples with students. Romney said that ""in order to leave the"
"program devised by Doug Lenat. Loui organized the first Harvard internet alumni club and built a citation-based search engine (for legal opinions) in the early 1990s. He earned his Ph.D. under Henry E. Kyburg, and spent postdoctoral time at Stanford under Patrick Suppes and Amos Tversky. Professor Loui supervised students in a National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates program that produced several current professors of computing, and the author of the original Google search engine. Ronald Loui Ronald Prescott Loui is an American computer scientist and philosopher identified as ""Frederick"" in U.S. President Barack Obama's ""Dreams From My Father"""
"announced as chairman of the $49.2 million Chicago Annenberg Challenge on June 22 and whose memoir ""Dreams from My Father"" would be published on July 18—would announce he was running for Palmer's 13th district seat, which was then a T-shaped district that spanned Chicago South Side neighborhoods from Hyde Park-Kenwood south through South Shore and from the lakefront west through Chicago Lawn. On September 11, 1995, Governor Jim Edgar set November 28 as the date for a special primary election to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Mel Reynolds following his August 1995 conviction. On September 19, Obama"
"his native village of Nyang'oma Kogelo, Siaya District. His funeral was attended by ministers Robert Ouko, Peter Oloo-Aringo, and other prominent political figures. Barack Obama Sr. Barack Hussein Obama Sr. (; 18 June 1936 – 24 November 1982) was a Kenyan senior governmental economist and the father of Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States. He is a central figure of his son's memoir, ""Dreams from My Father"" (1995). Obama married in 1954 and had two children with his first wife, Kezia. He was selected for a special program to attend college in the United States and studied"
"an inspiration to readers around the world. Hers is a triumph of the Latino experience in America."" Sotomayor modeled her approach towards the memoir after Barack Obama's ""Dreams From My Father"". It was written by her speaking into a tape recorder and then using the services of Zara Houshmand, an Iranian-American poet, in doing the actual writing. The title comes from a line by José Gautier Benítez, a Puerto Rican poet of the Romantic era in the 19th century. In recounting her early life, Sotomayor describes growing up in a housing project in the Bronx to Puerto Rican emigrants. Her"
"Harry Browne Harry Edson Browne (June 17, 1933 – March 1, 2006) was an American writer, politician, and investment advisor. He was the Libertarian Party's Presidential nominee in the U.S. elections of 1996 and 2000. He is the author of 12 books that in total have sold more than 2 million copies. Browne was born in New York City and spent his time growing up in Los Angeles. He was inducted into the U.S. Army on May 5, 1953. He went to the Southwestern Signal Corps Training Center at Camp San Luis Obispo, California to study cryptography. On October 4,"
"America and the efforts of senators to delay the American Civil War. ""Profiles"" was widely celebrated and became a best seller. John F. Kennedy is credited as the author, although the extent of his contribution has been questioned. In his 2008 autobiography, Kennedy's speechwriter Ted Sorensen said he had written most of the book under Kennedy's guidance. Kennedy was elected to the House of Representatives in 1946, 1948, and 1950 for the state of Massachusetts. In 1952 and 1958, he was elected a senator from Massachusetts, and served in the Senate until resigning after he was elected president in 1960."
"into a personal memoir. In order to work without interruptions, Obama and his wife, Michelle, traveled to Bali where he wrote for several months. The manuscript was finally published as ""Dreams from My Father"" in mid-1995. He married Michelle in 1992 and settled down with her in Hyde Park, a liberal, integrated, middle-class Chicago neighborhood with a history of electing reform-minded politicians independent of the Daley political machine. The couple's first daughter, Malia Ann, was born in 1998; their second, Natasha (known as Sasha), in 2001. One effect of the marriage was to bring Obama closer to other politically influential"
"of Republican lawyer Jay Stephens to head the Madison Guaranty investigation, that later turned into the Whitewater controversy. Stephanopoulos resigned from the Clinton administration shortly after Clinton was re-elected in 1996. His memoir, ""All Too Human: A Political Education"" (1999), was published after he left the White House during Clinton's second term. It quickly became a number-one bestseller on ""The New York Times"" Best Seller list. In the book, Stephanopoulos spoke of his depression and how his face broke out into hives due to the pressures of conveying the Clinton White House message. Clinton referred to the book in his"
"many local leaders as well, such as José Antonio Navarro, the Tejano leader (1795–1871), who served in the legislatures of Coahuila y Texas, the Republic of Texas, and the State of Texas. In 2006 U.S. Senator Barack Obama wrote a memoir, ""The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream"". It was this interpretation of the American Dream for a young black man that helped establish his statewide and national reputations. The exact meaning of the Dream became for at least one commentator a partisan political issue in the 2008 and 2012 elections. Political conflicts, to some degree, have"
"the presidential nomination in the 1996 Republican primaries but dropped out after the first set of primaries. Gramm retired from Congress in 2002. He became a lobbyist for UBS and founded a public policy and lobbying firm, Gramm Partners. He was a senior economic adviser to John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign. Gramm was born on July 8, 1942 in Fort Benning, Georgia, and grew up in nearby Columbus. Soon after his birth, Gramm's father, Kenneth Marsh Gramm, suffered a stroke and was partially paralyzed. He died when Gramm was 14. Gramm's mother, Florence (née Scroggins), worked double shifts as a"