In the end, Ayers contribution to Baracks Dreams of My Father would be significantso much so that the book's language, oddly specific references, literary devices, and themes would bear a jarring similarity to Ayers own writings. Even the caveat at the beginning of Dreams, in which Barack points out that he uses invented dialog, embellished facts, composite characters, inaccurate chronology, and pseudonyms to create approximation of reality, resembles Ayers defense of inaccuracies in. . .Fugitive Days . . .
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