Good books on America's president, Obama?

[ScarletBegonias]

I am searching for books about Obama's life that weren't written by him. (Wow, hes "written" a lot of books about himself!) Have the members read any good books about this man? I am mainly concerned with taking off his mask, because someone has requested my help in seeing him for the kind of person I suspect he is.

The books I am currently interested in reading are: The Other Barack: The Bold and Reckless Life of President Obama's Father , Deconstructing Obama: The Life, Loves, and Letters of America's First Postmodern President, Gangster Government: Barack Obama and the New Washington Thugocracy and Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies.

Suggestions are most helpful if anyone has any, thanks!

 

[Divide by Zero]

I saw this post the other day and just today an author came up.
Webster Tarpley was on a Pacifica radio show here called "Guns and Butter". He was talking about the military exercises on 9/11 and how very little was mobilized over this highly secure area that day despite the hijackings and crashes. They also mentioned that he wrote books on Bush and Obama. I listed the Obama books below.

Webster Griffin Tarpley
His website looks very interesting and I like his five point program for the economy.
http://tarpley.net/

Obama: The Postmodern Coup - Making of a Manchurian Candidate
Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized Biography




Edit: added link to his website.

 

[Laura M. C.]

Hi Scarlet,

I don't know about Obama but le me recommend a very good book, maybe you will be interested, it's about Bush, it's called "Bush on the Couch: Inside the mind of the president" by Dr. Justin A. frank


http://www.amazon.com/Bush-Couch-Inside-Mind-President/dp/0060736704

And here a video (a very long one!) about the author presenting his book and answering some questions at the end:

http://fora.tv/2008/01/19/Justin_Frank_Inside_the_Mind_of_President_Bush


I read it almost 2 years ago and its a very good book, coincidentally, this book brought me here because I was looking for answers too and found this forum. The psychiatrist basically diagnosis him as a psychopath; he points out his sadistic behaviors since childhood, his alcoholism, and most of all, how/why he enjoys to inflict pain on others (war).

Here is a bit of what the author says about his book :)


"Dr. Frank is the author of Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President (2004). He is a Washington, D.C.–based psychoanalyst and professor of psychiatry at George Washington University Medical School." :


" If one of my patients frequently said one thing and did another, I would want to know why. If I found that he often used words that hid their true meaning, and affected a persona that obscured the nature of his actions, I would grow more concerned. If he presented an inflexible worldview characterized by an oversimplified distinction between right and wrong, good and evil, allies and enemies, I would question his ability to grasp reality. And if his actions revealed an unacknowledged – even sadistic – indifference to human suffering, wrapped in pious claims of compassion, I would worry about the safety of the people whose lives he touched


For the last three years, I have observed with increasing alarm the inconsistencies and denials of such an individual. But he is not one of my patients. He is our President. He wants to remain our President for four more years, and he intends to do so on his own terms. On August 27, the eve of the Republican Convention, Bush said to New York Times reporters Sanger and Bumiller that “he would resist going ‘on the couch’ to rethink decisions.”

 

[Redrock12]

Dr. Frank should write a book on Steven Harper. Imo, from listening to Dr. Frank's analysis of Bush, a lot of it applies to Harper.