Did obama write his own books
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Which celebrity books were ghostwritten? Thousands of memoirs are penned by secret co-authors
Finding out which celebrity books were ghostwritten is a bit of a hobby of mine. Yes, I know it is very exciting when the biography of a hugely famous person lands, especially if you have admired them for years. It’s natural to relish cracking it open and diving right on in to devour their inner-most thoughts. Me? I flick straight to the acknowledgements. I’m looking for the tell-tale signs that a secret co-writer was involved. Euphemisms like ‘thank you to Jo Bloggs for ordering my thoughts’, or ‘this book couldn’t have been written without the help of Pen Master’. Some celebrities hide the name of their co-writer so artfully it can be quite the detective exercise. But, I usually get there in the end.
Which celebrity books were ghostwritten?
Are you intrigued? Perhaps my hobby is not that daft after all. To whet your appetite further, let’s look at some of the most famous examples.
Prince Harry – Spare
Spare became one of the UK’s fastest-selling non f
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In the November 17, 2008, issue of the magazine, David Remnick wrote about race and Barack Obama, citing passages from Obama’s memoir “Dreams from My Father” in a story that explored the nature of his campaign. The memoir, Remnick wrote,
explored his biracial heritage: his white Kansas-born mother, his black Kenyan father, almost completely absent from his life. The memoir is written with more freedom, with greater introspection and irony, than any other by a modern American politician. Obama introduces himself as an American whose childhood took him to Indonesia and Hawaii, whose grandfathers included Hussein Onyango Obama, “a prominent farmer, an elder of the tribe, a medicine man with healing powers.”
Freedom, introspection, irony—is it any wonder, then, that “Dreams from My Father” is the latest Obama project to be targeted by the right wing? Since the Presidential campaign, rumor has circulated among certain constituencies that Bill Ayers was the real author of “Dreams,” but recent comments (read: jokes) made by Ayers have fueled the fire. According to Washington Mon Becoming sold three million books shortly after it was first published. It became the best selling book of 2018.[7]•
Becoming (book)
Author Michelle Obama Country United States Language English Genre Memoir Published November 13, 2018 (2018-11-13) Publisher Crown (North America)
Viking Press (Commonwealth)Pages 400 ISBN 978-1-5247-6313-8 (Hardcover) Preceded by American Grown
Becoming is a memoir written by former First Lady Michelle Obama. The book was written by a ghostwriter[1][2] and a team of people who helped finish the book.[3] It was published in November 2018.[4]
In 2009, with the help of writer Lyric Winik, she wrote another book called American Grown.[5][6]Reference
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