America's Half-Blood Prince: Barack Obama's "Story of Race and Inheritance"e [Paperback]

Steve Sailer (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0578000377 | ISBN-13: 978-0578000374 | Publication Date: January 22, 2009

"Steve Sailer gives us the real Barack Obama, who turns out to be very, very different - and much more interesting - than the bland healer/uniter image stitched together out of whole cloth this past six years by Obama's packager, David Axelrod. Making heavy use of Obama's own writings, which he admires for their literary artistry, Sailer gives the deepest insights I have yet seen into Obama's lifelong obsession with 'race and inheritance,' and rounds off his brilliant character portrait with speculations on how Obama's personality might play out in the Presidency." - John Derbyshire Author, Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: VDare Foundation (January 22, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0578000377
• ISBN-13: 978-0578000374
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,347,163 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Definitive Introduction to Barack Obama, March 25, 2009

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David Parrott "Matt" (Carmel, IN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: America's Half-Blood Prince: Barack Obama's "Story of Race and Inheritance"e (Paperback)

It boggles the mind that any man could propel from virtual anonymity to such dizzying heights of fame, adoration, and power as Barack Obama has done without anybody making a serious effort to explore his background, biography, and motivations. This book, by the controversial science blogger Steve Sailer, accomplishes just that. Be forewarned that it's not a partisan screed against Obama, and those eager to read about skullduggery and conspiracies will want their money back. This is a mature and thoughtful (but very accessible) analysis of our president's intellectual and ideological foundations.

20 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Get to know Obama - Better late than never, March 26, 2009

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Robert Sherwood - See all my reviews
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This review is from: America's Half-Blood Prince: Barack Obama's "Story of Race and Inheritance"e (Paperback)

Enthusiasm for Barack Obama in the popular media is universal, but the adoration is directed at a cipher. This is unfortunate, because there is a real man, now president, of whom almost nothing is known.

Steve Sailer's book tosses a much needed bucket of cold water into this warm and fuzzy atmosphere. Sailer describes his book as fundamentally "a debate between Obama and Obama's own autobiography", Dreams from my Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. Sailer does the analysis the media should have delivered before the election, untangling the myth from the man and presenting a vision of what one might expect from an Obama presidency.

Sailer has never been shy about stirring up controversy, and this book is no exception. However, Sailer is an analyst, not a polemicist. He doesn't engage in controversy from a perverse love of conflict, but because he follows the evidence - even if it leads to an unpopular conclusion. The sobriety of his analysis is refreshing in the current atmosphere of hysterical condemnation from the right and hysterical adulation from the left.

For those interested in a grown-up's take on Obama, Sailer's book is the best (sadly, the only) book available.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Penetrating Look at the New Prez, March 25, 2009

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Alonzo (Kansas City, MO USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: America's Half-Blood Prince: Barack Obama's "Story of Race and Inheritance"e (Paperback)

Steve Sailer has been writing wonderfully informative and convincing articles and blog-postings about Barack Obama's story and character for many months now. Whatever you think about Obama politically, he's a fascinating creature, and Sailer's musings about him have often reminded me of the kind of deep character explorations that great novels sometimes provide. It has been some of the most daring and stimulating writing that I've run across on the web in the last year. Great that Sailer has pulled together his research and thoughts into a book -- it's the most persuasive account of Obama's character that I've yet run into.