I guess I didn't make my point clear. Had he made everyone aware of the fact that his father was in fact just a sperm donor who skipped out on his family shortly after conception, people would ask the obvious question. Why the H3ll did you write a book about an @sshole like that? And why should we read it?
Had he put that stuff in the book, Bill Ayers would have stripped it out as being contra-purpose to the entire theme of the book. The book would have been better entitled: "Wet Dreams from my Father."
I guess I didn’t make my point clear. Had he made everyone aware of the fact that his father was in fact just a sperm donor who skipped out on his family shortly after conception, people would ask the obvious question. Why the H3ll did you write a book about an @sshole like that? And why should we read it?
Had he put that stuff in the book, Bill Ayers would have stripped it out as being contra-purpose to the entire theme of the book. The book would have been better entitled: “Wet Dreams from my Father.”
The whole point of Dreams From My Father is “look at how great I am and see what I had to overcome to become great.” The worse his parents look, the better “the One’s” “remarkable achievements” in becoming President of Volume at the Harvard Review look.
Bill Ayers didn’t edit the book, Henry Ferris edited the original version and Deborah Baker edited the first paperback edition.
If you want to know the story of how Dreams From My Father came into being:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/us/politics/18memoirs.html
In the summer of 1960, SAD, at 17, graduates from Mercer Island High. She is happy and plans to attend the University of Washington in the fall. Why is her father "restless" and why does he move all the way to Hawaii to take a furniture sales job? Why would he insist that SAD come with them—leaving her friends and community—to attend the University of Hawaii? Who did they know there, if anyone? What job did he take and how long did he end up keeping it? Did they own their house in Mercer Island? Did they just, "up and move" leaving furnishings or was all that shipped over (would take time, it seems). And wouldn't such a move be expensive? Why would Madelyn leave her job in Seattle to take a lesser one in Hawaii? How difficult would it be for Ann to enroll, and would she have had to pay out-of-state tuition for at least the first semester? What did Ann do in Hawaii during the summer months before school? How did she get back and forth to school? Did she have her own car? BHO, Sr. started classes in Fall 1959. So was he in his sophomore year in Fall 1960? Why was SAD taking a Russian language class and was that class even offered to Freshmen at that time? Did she ever take Russian again in college?
Ann becomes pregnant in early November of 1960, still 17. What other black men were enrolled at the University or living in proximity to the Dunhams or the college (again, how able was she to get around the island on her own?) Did SAD perhaps arrive in Hawaii later than her parents, thus leaving her on her on in Seattle, perhaps with a relative? Would she have known she was pregnant by that Christmas? She might have only been late by a few weeks. When did she notify University of Hawaii that she was not going to attend the Spring semester? And what prevented her from attending? If the family—and BHO,Sr.—knew in January that she was pregnant and arranged for the wedding to be held February 2, 1961, she was still only a few months along: What did she do in Hawaii for the six months? Wouldn't she write letters to some of her high school friends? Hadn't she made any other friends in Hawaii during her first semester? Was she cooped up in the house? Isn't that unusual for a bright, active, married and pregnant young woman, especially considering her obvious independence? Didn't anyone see her or remember her? Was she in trouble with her parents under house arrest? Did BHO, Sr. go on with his life and Russian studies, stopping by every Sunday to have an awkward dinner?
Or, did they send her back to live with relatives in Seattle? And when the baby was born, the birth was phoned in by Madelyn.
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(And when did phone directories list where people worked and what their positions were?!) ((LOL, you don't have to answer any of these!!))