Publisher's Synopsis
"Billingsley unmasks Barack Obama's life story as historical fiction." -Joel Gilbert, producer of Dreams from My Real Father "My father was a foreign student, born and raised in a small village in Kenya. He grew up herding goats, went to school in a tin-roof shack. His father, my grandfather, was a cook, a domestic servant to the British." That was Barack Obama's message to the Democratic Party convention back in 2004. The story first emerged in his 1995 Dreams from My Father but the author confessed a "stubborn desire to protect myself from scrutiny" and was not exactly forthcoming about his background. In 2008, the Dreams author became President of the United States but during his second term the mysteries mounted a surge. In 2012, Paul Kengor authored The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mentor. The professor argued that Davis, a Stalinist, was the president's true ideological father. That year Dreams from My Real Father, a documentary film by Joel Gilbert, made a case that Frank Marshall Davis was the president's true biological father. In writings from 1958-1964, including his letters, the Kenyan Barack Obama mentioned nothing about an American wife and Hawaiian-born son. That emerged in 2013 but the president never viewed the collection. In 2015, Gilbert tracked down Malik Obama, son of the Kenyan Barack Obama. Malik Obama noted a strong resemblance between the president and Frank Marshall Davis, right down to the spots on their face. "I don't know how I'd deal with it," Malik Obama said, "if it really came out that he really is a fraud or a con." No insider stepped forward to tell all, but in the 2017 Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama, Pulitzer Prize winner David Garrow proclaimed that Dreams from My Father was "in multitudinous ways and without any question, a work of historical fiction" and the author a "composite character." Fellow college students call Barry, as he was known, a "GQ Marxist." Close friends see him as a "pompous jive" who likes to "masquerade." Reporters tell Garrow the president's narrative is "not entirely true." Was the 44th President of the United States, the most powerful man in the world, not really who he claimed to be? According to Joel Gilbert, Barack 'em Up "exposes the Obama story as the fraud of the century. Highly recommended!"
