Obama's America : unmaking the American dream

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Obama's America : unmaking the American dream

Author:

D'Souza, Dinesh, 1961- author.

ISBN:

9781596987784

Publication Information:

Washington, DC : Regnery Pub. ; New York : Distributed by Perseus, c2012.

Physical Description:

258 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill., ports. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Inner compass: Obama and the importance of ideology -- Invisible man: Why Obama remains a mystery -- Absentee father: Abandonment and the formation of political identity -- Mommie dearest: Ann Obama's destructive legacy -- Obama's founding fathers: Five who shaped him -- Sellouts: The ones he left behind -- Certificates of absolution: Obama's secret weapon -- The wealth they didn't earn: Decolonizing the U.S. economy -- Drilling there but not here: Oil drilling for them but not for us -- Disarming the rogue nation: Iran? North Korea? No, America -- The Jihadi as freedom fighter: "Liberating" occupied territories -- Our Arab winter: Weakening allies, strengthening enemies -- Debt as a weapon of mass destruction: Obama's $20 trillion bomb -- Big daddy: Obama as lord of the manor -- Surviving Obama: The choice we face.

Personal Subject:

Obama, Barack-Influence.

Obama, Barack-Political and social views.

Subject Term:

Political culture -- United States.

Geographic Term:

United States -- Politics and government -- 2009-2017

United States -- Foreign relations -- 2009-

United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.

United States -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.

Summary:

Follow-up to the "New York Times"-bestseller "The Roots of Obama's Rage," D'Souza posits how President Obama's recent actions prove his anti-colonialist roots and predicts how much worse America will be if President Obama wins a second term.

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America as we know it--wealthy, powerful, assertive--is not what Obama wants. He wants a smaller America, a poorer America, an America unable to exert its will, an America happy to be one power among many, an America in decline so that other nations might rise--all in the name of global fairness. To Obama, the hated "one percent" isn't just wealthy Americas; it is America itself. In Obama's view, America needs to be taken down a notch.

That is the startling conclusion of bestselling author Dinesh D'Souza in Obama's America . Building on his previous New York Times bestseller The Roots of Obama's Rage --which Newt Gingrich called "Stunning...the most profound insight I have read in the last six years"--D'Souza shows how Obama's goal to downsize America is in plain sight but ignored by everyone.

D'Souza lays out what Obama plans to do in a second administration--a makeover of America so drastic that the "shining city on a hill" will become a shantytown in a rather dangerous global village. Arresting in its presentation and sobering in its conclusions, Obama's America is essential reading for those who want to change America's course before it's too late.

Author Notes

Dinesh D'Souza was born on April 25, 1961 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. He came to the U.S. in 1978 and attended Union High School in Patagonia, Arizona. He went on to Dartmouth College, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in English in 1983. While attending Dartmouth, he became the editor of a conservative monthly called The Prospect. The paper ignited controversy during D'Souza's editorship by criticizing the College's affirmative action policies. He also became known as a writer for the Dartmouth Review which was subsidized by several right-wing organizations. After Dartmouth he moved to Washington, D.C. where he was an editor of Policy Review, an influential conservative journal. In 1988 he left the magazine on to serve as an advisor in Ronald Regan's White House. He joined the American Enterprise Institute in 1989 where he was the institute's John M. Olin fellow. He has appeared on several news shows as a political commentator such as: CNN, Glen Beck, and ABC's Nightline.

D'Souza's first book, Lliberal Education was published in 1991. Since then, he has written numerous bestselling political commentaries, including: America: Imagine a World Without Her, Obama's America: Unmaking the American Dream, Letters to a Young Conservative, The End of Racism, and The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left.

D'Souza's title's, Hilary's America and Death of a Nation, made the New York Times Bestseller List.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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Kirkus Review

Conservative writer D'Souza (Godforsaken, 2012, etc.) further explores why he considers President Barack Obama "[t]he most dangerous man in America." The president of King's College in New York City and a former policy advisor to President Reagan, D'Souza co-wrote and -directed the financially successful 2012 documentary 2016: Obama's America, which painted Obama as being driven by an anti-American and anti-colonialist ideology. In this book, which expands on the author's The Roots of Obama's Rage (2010), D'Souza continues this line of attack, claiming that this ideology has made Obama "the architect of American decline" who "wants America to be downsized." The younger Obama, asserts the author, absorbed this virulent anti-colonialist worldview from his (largely absent) Kenyan father, as well as his Indonesian stepfather, both of whom D'Souza describes as "Third World, anti-American guy[s]." (He also portrays Obama's American mother as prone to "sexual adventuring.") The author plays up the influence of such familiar Chicago figures as the Reverend Jeremiah Wright and former Weatherman Bill Ayers, whom D'Souza terms "Obama's terrorist pal." All of these influences, writes the author, have shaped Obama's policies profoundly, particularly in energy and foreign affairs. Unfortunately, the author does not provide any solid evidence for his arguments, instead trafficking largely in guilt-by-association and apocalyptic predictions of "America's decline and fall." D'Souza has been criticized by liberals and mainstream conservatives for his strident theories; it seems highly unlikely that any minds will be changed by his latest book or by such statements as, "If Obama were white, he would have virtually no chance of being re-elected." Shallow and speculative at best, paranoid at worst.]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Chapter 1 Inner Compass: Obama and the Importance of Ideology	p. 1
Chapter 2 Invisible Man: Why Obama Remains a Mystery	p. 17
Chapter 3 Absentee Father: Abandonment and the Formation of Political Identity	p. 37
Chapter 4 Mommie Dearest: Ann Obama's Destructive Legacy	p. 53
Chapter 5 Obama's Founding Fathers: Five Who Shaped Him	p. 67
Chapter 6 Sellouts: The Ones He Left Behind	p. 91
Chapter 7 Certificates of Absolution: Obama's Secret Weapon	p. 109
Chapter 8 The Wealth They Didn't Earn: Decolonizing the U.S. Economy	p. 125
Chapter 9 Drilling There But Not Here: Oil Drilling for Them but Not for Us	p. 137
Chapter 10 Disarming the Rogue Nation: Iran? North Korea? No, America	p. 147
Chapter 11 The Jihadi as Freedom Fighter: "Liberating" Occupied Territories	p. 157
Chapter 12 Our Arab Winter: Weakening Allies, Strengthening Enemies	p. 173
Chapter 13 Debt as a Weapon of Mass Destruction: ObamaÆs $20 Trillion Bomb	p. 189
Chapter 14 Big Daddy: Obama as Lord of the Manor	p. 203
Chapter 15 Surviving Obama: The Choice We Face	p. 215
Notes	p. 225
Index	p. 247

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