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  • Paperback: 258 pages
  • Publisher: Regnery Publishing; Reprint edition (October 4, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1596982764
  • ASIN: B0078XP1O2
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (852 customer reviews)
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From the Inside Flap

“Stunning...the most profound insight I have read in the last six years about Barack Obama.” — NEWT GINGRICH

YOU WILL NEVER SEE OBAMA THE SAME WAY AGAIN

He’s been called many things: a socialist, a radical fellow traveler, a Chicago machine politician, a prince of the civil rights movement, a virtual second coming of Christ, or even a covert Muslim.

But as New York Times bestselling author Dinesh D’Souza points out in this shockingly revealing book, these labels merely slap our own preconceived notions on Barack Obama.

The real Obama is a man shaped by experiences far different from those of most Americans; he is a much stranger, more determined, and exponentially more dangerous man than you’d ever imagined. He is not motivated by the civil rights struggles of African Americans in the 1960s—those battles leave him wholly untouched. He is not motivated by the socialist or Marxist propaganda that hypnotized a whole generation of wooly–minded academics and condescending liberals—those concepts also leave him cold.

What really motivates Barack Obama is an inherited rage—an often masked, but profound rage that comes from his African father; an anticolonialist rage against Western dominance, and most especially against the wealth and power of the very nation Barack Obama now leads. It is this rage that explains the previously inexplicable, and that gives us a startling look at what might lie ahead.

In The Roots of Obama’s Rage you’ll learn: Why Obama’s economic policies are actually designed to make America poorer compared to the rest of the world Why Obama will welcome a nuclear Iran Why Obama sees America as a rogue nation—worse than North Korea The real reason Obama banished a bust of Winston Churchill from the White House and ordered NASA to praise the scientific contributions of Muslims Why Obama would like to make America’s superpower status a thing of the past

Stunning, provocative, original, and telling—no one has better diagnosed who Obama is, what he intends to do, and why he poses an existential threat to America than Dinesh D’Souza in The Roots of Obama’s Rage.

--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

From the Back Cover


From THE ROOTS OF OBAMA’S RAGE

We are today living out the script for America and the world that was dreamt up not by Obama but by Obama’s father. How do I know this? Because Obama says so himself. Reflect for a moment on the title of his book: it’s not Dreams of My Father but rather Dreams from My Father. In other words, Obama is not writing a book about his father’s dreams; he is writing a book about the dreams that he got from his father.

Think about what this means. The most powerful country in the world is being governed according to the dreams of a Luo tribesman of the 1950s—a polygamist who abandoned his wives, drank himself into stupors, and bounced around on two iron legs (after his real legs had to be amputated because of a car crash caused by his drunk driving). This philandering, inebriated African socialist, who raged against the world for denying him the realization of his anti-colonial ambitions, is now setting the nation’s agenda through the reincarnation of his dreams in his son. The son is the one who is making it happen, but the son is, as he candidly admits, only living out his father’s dream. The invisible father provides the inspiration, and the son dutifully gets the job done. America today is being governed by a ghost.

--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Customer Reviews

Thank you, Mr. D'Souza for writing this book.
Susan Fensten
When you read these books, you get a good understanding of where Obama is coming from and why he thinks this country deserves to be taken down.
Theresa C
If you accept, as D'Souza does, that Obama thinks of America as a colonial or imperialist power, it is easy to understand what motivates him.
thewanderingjew

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1,339 of 1,634 people found the following review helpful By Sergio Buica on October 4, 2010
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Three weeks ago, Dinesh D'Souza has written the cover story for Forbes Magazine. He based the story on his book, about to be published about President Obama. D'Souza's theory is that our President is driven by an anti-colonialist ideological hatred.
After the publication of the article, the White House spokesman Robert Gibbs was sent to contact the magazine editor, and in passing derided the magazine, saying: "It's a stunning thing, to see a publication you would see in a dentist's office, so lacking in truth and fact."

D'Souza claims to be a lot like Obama: both with cosmopolitan backgrounds, with roots in former colonized countries, nonwhite, influenced by mixed marriages, born the same year, attended Ivy League colleges and graduating the same year.

What seemed to inspire the author to write this book was an article he read back in 2008, in the London Telegraph titled "Barack Obama's Lost Brother Found in Kenya". The 26 year old George Hussein Obama was found living in a Nairobi slum. "I live here on less than a dollar a month." George said. Humiliated by his poverty, he confessed he never mentioned the famous half-brother. The two Obamas met briefly in 2006 when Barack was a senator, but the two didn't connect. D'Souza was shocked that the Senator, with a net worth in the millions of dollars did not lift a finger to help a destitute close relative. George wanted to be a mechanic, and D'Souza raised a couple thousand dollars to help George move out of his hut. By then D'Souza believes the Obama's presidential campaign caught up with the guy, and George was apparently told to go into hiding.

D'Souza believes that since childhood, Obama's dream was always to become an anti-colonial warrior. And also that his father's dream became his own.
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165 of 209 people found the following review helpful By Ted Marks on October 20, 2010
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Dinesh D'Souza has written a book that may (or may not) be one of the most provocative studies in American political history. The ultimate impact of the book, THE ROOTS OF OBAMA'S RAGE, will be determined by how many Americans actually read the D'Souza's book -- and how many of those readers concur with D'Souza's conclusions.

D'Souza contends that the underlying philosophy of America's first black president is anti-colonialism; that is to say, the author claims that Obama is against any remnant of the colonialist era, which, unfortunately, includes a significant part of American history.

So, D'Souza contends, Obama is in the process of revolutionizing America's stance on a wide variety of key issues, including a ban on imperialistic wars waged by a rogue military; changing America's free enterprise, capitalistic economy into a socialized economy that is regulated by the federal government: turning America's private health care system into a single payer (socialist) medical system, and turning America into the greenest nation on earth. The net effect of all these major changes in American policies will be to redistribute America's wealth to less developed parts of the world.

Obama, according to D'Souza, is in the process of trying to completely reverse 300 years of American history, turning the country into a low profile, socialized nation is nested quiescently in the family of nations around the world. No more superpower pretensions on Obama's watch.

D'Souza is of Indian descent, and he claims that he has the racial and ethnic credentials to challenge Obama. He has organized and formatted his book in a highly logical, though sometimes fanciful, cocky style. As he warns his readers in an early chapter:

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502 of 648 people found the following review helpful By Elanor Rigby on October 5, 2010
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All I am going to say is this-- To everyone who is bashing this book, it is obvious that 99% of you haven't so much as read a page.

I have never read anything more interesting or thought provoking about President Obama. Whether or not you agree with Dinesh, it is hard to dismiss his theory as unrealistic or impossible. Dinesh uses Obama's own words, personal history and actions to compile his theory. I can't say for certain whether the premise of the book is accurate or not. What I can say is that the book itself is an interesting, eye opening trip into Obama's past and a logically coherent glance into this country's future.

Before you mindless drone on about how the book is inaccurate or personally attack Dinesh, try reading it first.
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321 of 417 people found the following review helpful By Freedom To Excel on September 29, 2010
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A worthwhile read. The facts are verifiable through objective sources. The author's opinions and theories are clearly stated as such.
The author displays a deep understanding of the concepts he discusses. He presents his theories and opinions after first guiding the reader through the chronology of verifiable facts and events that have led him to logically and reasonably formulate the theories and opinions he shares.
After reading this book I took the time to LISTEN to some of Mr. Obama's speeches and review his policy decisions. Omitting the distraction of the video portion was truly enlightening and ratified many of this author's theories. I now regret voting for him.
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297 of 386 people found the following review helpful By ebad on September 29, 2010
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I read an article written by a woman from Africa, I think at the American thinker, I don't remember her name. She was the first person who said that Obama reminded her of the anti colonial socialists she knew from back home in Africa. It now makes sense why Obama would surround himself with people who write papers about de-developing America. Why on earth would a "leader" try to destroy the economy of his own country? Why would Obama cap 3500 oil wells in the U.S., thus losing 23000 jobs only to then give billions to Mexico to drill for oil in those very same waters? Explain that if you can. He then gave billions of our borrowed money to Brazil to drill for oil in deep water. He sees the world as the oppressed and the oppressor. When he talks about redistributing the wealth, he means from the U.S.A. to the rest of the world. That means from you too liberals and union workers... You guys are richer than most of the people on the earth!
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