At what point in time did he start "reconstructing" the facts about his life? His Illinois state senate campaign, his Illinois U.S. Senate campaign, or before then? When was Dreams From My Father written?
If his personal history has been "sanitized" (I am agreeing with you) they started working on it years back.
Dreams from my father was published in 1995 when he was 34 years old, but he started it in 1990. (slow writer?) He claims that he was offered several lucrative book contracts upon being elected as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. He graduated from HL in 1991. (J. Corsi)
But, I think he’s been dissembling about his life his whole life. He’s had to make excuses for himself from the beginning because he didn’t have a father, his father was a different race, he didn’t have a mother, his sister was a diffeent race, he ilved with his grandparents, etc.
IMO Dreams was written to fill in the spaces created when true informaton was scrubbed.
But as I pointed out in my looooong thought post: He can’t be sure he’s gotten EVERY bit of information scrubbed....So when something like Orly’s BC comes up, he’s as worried as we are excited. And must go into action immediately to minimize it.