David Maraniss

All Obama Really Needed to Know He Learned from His Composites

by Carl Scott

The new Obama biography by David Maraniss finds still more composites haunting the pages of Dreams of My Father . That “still more” is not surprising, as Dreams says up front that some composites have been employed, but the importance of them to the narrative, and the lengths to which the . . . . Continue Reading »

Literary Proclivities amid Obama’s Tangled Web

by Carl Scott

Oh, what a tangled web did Obama weave, When first he “composited” Genevieve. Vanity Fair has published extracts from a forthcoming biography of Barack Obama featuring letters he sent one of his college girlfriends, Alex McNear, and journal entries written by Genevieve Cook, a girlfriend . . . . Continue Reading »