STEVE SAILER`S OBAMA BOOK, AMERICA`S HALF-BLOOD PRINCE, FINALLY AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK!!!


I`m happy to announce that you can
now buy a hard-copy version of my new book,



America`s Half-Blood Prince: Barack Obama`s "Story of
Race and Inheritance"
,
which as been

available
as a free pdf download since last month.
This 282-page paperback is my first book and also
the first book published by the

VDARE Foundation
. It can be ordered for $29.95 by
clicking
here
and makes an excellent


Christmas gift
—just
be sure to have it shipped via a fast enough method to
arrive by Christmas Eve!


John
Derbyshire
kindly writes of

America`s
Half-Blood Prince
:


"Steve
Sailer gives us the real Barack Obama, who turns out to be
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 this brilliant character portrait with
speculations on how Obama`s personality might play out in
the Presidency."

My book
serves as a reader`s guide to the President-Elect`s elusive
but ultimately revealing autobiography, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. Although
there has been a vast effusion of verbiage about Barack
Obama (Google lists 117 million webpages), there has been
little serious analysis of what the next President has
written about himself.

That`s
more than a little strange because Dreams from My Father
has sold millions of copies, and will likely sell tens of
millions more in future decades as it

inevitably gets added
to
high
school
and

college
mandatory reading lists.

The
seemingly puzzling lack of insightful attention paid to
Obama`s 1995 book has a simple explanation: Obama, the
MainStream Media, and, for that matter, John McCain (who, as
I accurately

predicted
back in February, more or less threw the
election by
vetoing all ads
having even the most

tangential connection
to race) haven`t wanted the public
to understand the central obsessions of Obama`s memoir. You
aren`t supposed to grasp what, actually,
are the dreams
from Obama`s father: to gain personal political power for
himself in service to his race.

The
fundamental message of Obama`s enormous tome about himself
is that, despite his half-white nature and all non-black
nurture, he is
black enough
to be a

leader of the black race.
The moral of the story is not
at all complicated. It just hasn`t been understood for two
reasons: 

  • First, Obama`s prose style of thoughtful nuances
    and literary flourishes is designed to induce in readers
    not comprehension but a Zen-like trance of admiration
    for the writer. Moreover, Obama`s writing is engineered
    to be unquotable.

     
  • Second, Obama`s book relentlessly contradicts
    Obama`s own campaign image that was invented for him by

    David Axelrod
    as
    America
    `s magical
    racial transcender.

Peter
Brimelow, editor of
VDARE.COM
,

writes
in my book`s Foreword:


"Barack
Obama has been presenting himself since
2004
as a `half-blood
prince,
` an

archetypal ambiguous figure
in whom the various parts of
a deeply-divided society can jointly invest their
contradictory hopes. Such figures spring up regularly in
conflicted polities. A classic example in my own experience:
Pierre Trudeau,
the son of a French-speaking father and English-speaking
mother, who appeared to have pulled off the same trick in
reconciling English and French Canada in

1968
. But, in such situations, someone is going to be
disappointed. In Canada, Trudeau
turned out to be an

epiphenomenon
of French Canadian nationalist debate."

As with

Trudeaumania
in 1968, Obamamania in 2008 is dependent on
nobody paying much attention to the politician`s past. (The
2006 biography by two Trudeau supporters, Young Trudeau: 1919-1944: Son of Quebec, Father of Canada, revealed
that to aid the Vichy puppet regime in France during WWII,
the young Trudeau tried to organize a

Fascist revolution
to take
Quebec out
of

Britain`s war effort.
)



America`s Half-Blood Prince

offers a close critical analysis of the next President`s
story of his own life. You`ll recognize some of it from my
VDARE.com
articles
and from my
iSteve blog,
but much is completely new and the rest is put into a
coherent framework for the first time. My book provides a
biography of Obama, with a fair amount of it in his own
words.

Here`s an
excerpt from the final chapter:



When asked what represented the greatest challenge for a
statesman, British Prime Minister,

Harold Macmillan
responded in his typically languid
fashion, "Events, my dear boy,

events
."


“What kind of President would Barack Obama turn out to be?


“I don`t like to make predictions because I hate being
wrong. It`s especially hard to be right about the future
interplay of personalities and events. In 2000, another
under-examined Presidential candidate, George W. Bush, was
elected while promising what his chief foreign affairs
advisor, Condoleezza Rice, called a more `modest`
foreign policy.


“Then, 9/11 happened.


“After becoming British Prime Minister in 1957, Harold
Macmillan, whose adult life spanned the

Great War,
the Depression, WWII, and the Cold War,
observed that governments are driven less by their own goals
than by the sheer necessity of responding in some fashion to
unforeseen events. As I write during the financial turmoil
of mid-October 2008, `events are in the saddle and they ride
mankind,` to quote Ralph Waldo Emerson. Whether events would
constrain or liberate Obama`s `deepest
commitments
` is impossible to say at this point.


“A few likelihoods seem apparent, though. In Obama, ambition
and caution are yoked. Becoming President is not his
ultimate objective. Becoming a two-term President is.
Republican Richard Nixon`s first Administration was one of
the most liberal in American history. There were hints at
the beginning of his second term, before

Watergate
washed every bit of policy coherence away,
that Nixon, having safely won re-election, intended to move
toward his innate conservatism. That analogy suggests that a
second Obama administration might more truly reflect the
real Obama.


“Also, the conflict-adverse Obama isn`t all that likely to
go to the mat with the Senate if the Republicans keep at
least the 41 Senate seats necessary to stage filibusters. …


“If elected, this `blank screen` candidate would inevitably
disappoint at least some of his enthusiasts. After all, they
espouse profoundly contradictory hopes.


“Which ones will he disillusion?


“Rather than make a prediction, I prefer to take a more

Heisenbergian
approach. As Barack Obama Sr.

no doubt
could have pointed out,

Marx
said, `The
philosophers have only
interpreted
the world, in various ways; the point is to
change it.
`


“The point of this book is to change a potential Obama
Administration for the better by making the public a

little less ignorant
about Obama. For all his talk of
`audacity,` Obama is far more cautious than his

brash father
was. Fortunately, the son remains a work in
progress. His opportunism makes him deterrable. The less
gullible the American people are about who Obama truly is,
the better chance we have of keeping him from trying to
fulfill his `deepest commitments.`


“More broadly,
America

has had it easy for decades, but the fat years are coming to
an end. We aren`t so rich anymore that we can continue to
get by with a conventional wisdom built on

ignorance, lies, and spin.


“The widespread assumption that Obama must be our Half-Blood
Prince, born and bred to resolve our racial disputes, is
symptomatic of American elites` loosening grip on reality
regarding anything dealing with `diversity.` Recall how the
media, both parties, academia, and Wall Street all

pushed for 15 years
for
laxer
mortgage lending standards
for

minorities
… with catastrophic results.


“Why? Because everyone who was anyone had agreed that
only evil people
publicly display skepticism about

diversity
.


“Similarly, the American establishment has been so
intellectually enfeebled by political correctness that for
two years we`ve all been fed a steady diet of David
Axelrod`s

implausible campaign concoction
starring the author of
Dreams from My Father as the Great Race Transcender. All these
months, our elites barely mentioned (or even
noticed) the subtitle of the `postracial` candidate`s autobiography:
A Story of Race and
Inheritance
.


“It`s time for new elites.”

To repeat:

America`s
Half-Blood Prince: Barack Obama`s
"Story of Race and
Inheritance"
, the paperback, can be ordered now
for $29.95 from
here. It
makes an excellent



Christmas gift
.
(Just be sure to have it shipped via a fast enough method to
arrive by Christmas Eve.)

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[Steve
Sailer (
email
him) is


movie critic

for


The American Conservative
.

His website



www.iSteve.blogspot.com

features his daily blog. His new book
,
AMERICA`S HALF-BLOOD PRINCE:
BARACK OBAMA`S "STORY OF
RACE AND INHERITANCE"
, is available


here
.]