“Steve Sailer gives us the real Barack Obama, who turns out to be very, very different - and much more interesting - than the bland healer/uniter image stitched together out of whole cloth this past six years by Obama's packager, David Axelrod. Making heavy use of Obama's own writings, which he admires for their literary artistry, Sailer gives the deepest insights I have yet seen into Obama's lifelong obsession with 'race and inheritance,' and rounds off his brilliant character portrait with speculations on how Obama's personality might play out in the Presidency.”
![“[David] Maraniss sees [Barack] Obama as a man with "a moviegoer's or writer's sensibility, where he is both participating and observing himself participating, and views much of the political process as ridiculous or surreal, even as he is deep into it.” quote by Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/08d/jane-mayer-1031_barack-obama_david-maraniss-sees-barack-obama-as-a-ma_991108.jpg)
![“One of the great aspects about [Barack Obama] is who he is as a human.” quote by Common](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ffe/common-2673_aspect_one-of-the-great-aspects-about-barack-ob_1707199.jpg)
