bgill: "So, where did the literary agent get the information?"
On 2/6/90, the New York Times published an article titled "First Black Elected to Head Harvard's Law Review." In it, they said:
"The new president of the Review is Barack Obama, a 28-year-old graduate of Columbia University... His late father, Barack Obama, was a finance minister in Kenya and his mother, Ann Dunham, is an American anthropologist now doing fieldwork in Indonesia. Mr. Obama was born in Hawaii."
Compare that to the blurb put out by Acton & Dystel:
"Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii. The son of an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister, he attended Columbia University..."
So there are two options:
1) Acton & Dystel either had newspaper clippings of its authors and/or it did a NEXIS search of newspapers and ended up mis-copying from the many articles appearing in 1990 when Obama was elected to head Harvard's Law Review. Easy to believe. Things like that happen all the time.
or
2) According to the Breitbart.com article which published the publicity blurb, Obama was clearly born in Hawaii. However, the Breitbart article accuses Obama of telling the publisher he was born in Kenya, and claimed that was just proof of Obama's manipulating his public persona and fictionalizing aspects of his own life. So, in other words, according to Breitbart, you've been punk'd!
The likeliest scenario is that Obama told his agent the truth. That he was born in Kenya but the birth was registered in HI. That is the only explanation that explains all the anomalies—including the fact that the entire Kenyan Parliament acknowledged Obama’s Kenyan birth. Also explains Obama’s ‘birth documents’ as being ‘something written down’, ‘a notation’.
Though of course Obama’s most ardent Obots will never see that. They are blinded, literally, by their love of & service to Obama.