“we need to rely on BOOKS that he wrote about himself”.
——Jack Cashill has made a pretty good case, with one
unbelievably striking example in particular , that indicate that, if Bill Ayers did not oversee the writing of the “big” book, the one that’s cited as being so good,
then we are living in a parallel universe where magical coincidence is the order of the day. Can’t remember which Ayers writing it came from, or which publication date was first, but if it wasn’t writing by Ayers, it was theft by Obama OF Ayers. Either way, Obama probably provided “source material” but everything about what Cashill reveals indicate “Dreams from my Father” is another one of those “as told to”, or with the help of
citations we are using to seeing on the covers of political memoirs. It is OBVIOUS the post-modern pawprints of Ayers’ amateurism are all over “Dreams”. In particular, look for the use , in both books, of a highly metaphorical
piece of folk wisdom about tides and which way rivers run.
Everything else being equal, there is not a chance in hell that Ayers did not exercise a critical editor/writer’s hand in this book.
Even if he didn’t exactly write the books, they were written with his approval. Now if Kitty Kelly had written his biorgraphy, that would be more believable in my opinion.