Steve Sailer is a lot more interesting than Barrack Obama - more intelligent too. This is his first book. He is a hyper-prolific writer but mostly on the Web. He probably writes half again as much as say Ann Coulter, but she cranks out her best selling books and only posts one column a week on the web. Sailer writes the equivalent of three to five columns a week, but no books until this one.
He is highly controversial because he writes about race a good deal. He has a quantitative background from his former career in market research. So his web articles often result from some original statistical observation or analysis. However this book is not quantitative.
Nor is it based on "investigative reporter" material. Sailer did not fly to Hawaii or Pakistan or Indonesia to interview the people who knew Obama. In this slim book written during the campaign Sailer relies on a kind of literary analysis of Obama's two autobiographies - but principally "Dreams From My Father". Normally this wouldn't be enough. Normally, you could just read the original and learn all you wanted.
So why should you want to read a book about Obama from someone who never interviewed him or who had never worn out a lot of shoe leather tracking down his friends and acquaintences? Why listen to a guy from LA who has no contacts on the Hill?
The first reason is that no one else has bothered to write this book. And why should it be that s no one else has analyzed "Dreams"?
Race.
"Dreams From My Father" is a race book. It details Obama's life long obssession with race and his resentments about race. During the campaign Obama tried to appear to be post-racial. He portrayed himself as a healer. Nobody wanted to point out that he harbored deep bitterness over race issues in the manner of Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton. But he did, and it was all there for anyone to see in his own hand. Only Steve Sailer, one of the few American writers who has made a career of discussing race candidly could deal with this topic.
Today Obama's effect on race relations is not so much a mystery as it was last year during the campaign. His White House is today embroiled in the Rush Limbaugh attempt to buy a piece of a football team. This has blown up into a race issue. Last year many would have expected Obama to be the agent for calm and forgiveness. This year Obama the office holder rather than Obama the office seeker, encourages Al Sharpton's rhetoric. Obama stirs the pot. The Obama White House seems quick to label every policy criticism another form of white racism.
This White House's race pugnacity was not expected by most people. If they had read Sailer's book they wouldn't be surprised.
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