Thursday, June 14, 2012

Obama wasn’t just inventing himself; he was inventing himself inventing himself.

Young Obama

Self-Made Man

Barack Obama’s autobiographical fictions

Jun 18, 2012 By ANDREW FERGUSONThere’s a DVD that’s been sitting in its jewel box on my desk for a few years (I’ve been busy​—​no time to

tidy up), and the other day, after reading through two brand-new books about Barack Obama, one admiring, the other ferociously disapproving, I snapped the cellophane at last and slid the disk into my computer drive.
I bought the video on a visit to Occidental College in Los Angeles, not long after Obama took office. He attended Oxy from 1979 to 1981, then lit out after his sophomore year and never returned. It must be a tricky business for a college publicist, marketing your school as the place that one of the world’s most famous men couldn’t wait to get away from, but these are highly competitive times in the liberal arts college racket, and a flack will work with what he’s got. During my visit the campus was transforming itself into a three-dimensional tribute to its most famous dropout.

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