The Roots of Obama’s Rage

By: Dinesh D’Souza

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins

Publisher's summary

Critics of President Obama have attacked him as a socialist, an African American radical, and a big-government liberal. But somehow the critics have failed to understand what’s truly driving Barack Obama. Now best-selling author Dinesh D’Souza throws out these misplaced attacks in his new book, The Roots of Obama’s Rage.

D’Souza explains that the reason Obama appears to be working to destroy America from within is found, as Obama himself admits, in The Dreams of My Father: a deeply hostile anticolonialism. Instilled in him by his father, this worldview has led President Obama to resent America and everything we stand for.

Viewing Obama through this anticolonialism prism and drawing evidence from President Obama’s own life and writings, D’Souza masterfully shows how Obama is working to weaken and punish America here and abroad. From enacting crippling financial reforms to setting artificial withdrawal dates in Iraq and Afghanistan, Obama is trying to muzzle the capitalism which he sees as exploiting the weak. Our president, argues D’Souza, is more concerned with being labeled as America the Oppressor than winning the war on terror.

The Roots of Obama’s Rage reveals Obama for who he really is: a man driven by the anticolonial ideology of his father and the first American president to actually seek to reduce America’s strength, influence, and standard of living. Controversial and compelling, The Roots of Obama’s Rage is poised to be the one book that truly defines Obama and his presidency.

Dinesh D’Souza is the best-selling author of several books, including What’s So Great about America, What’s So Great about Christianity, and Life after Death. He has been a White House policy analyst, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and a fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He lives in Rancho Santa Fe, California, with his wife Dixie and their daughter Danielle.

©2010 Dinesh D’Souza (P)2010 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Critic reviews

“Dinesh D’Souza is one of the most original, insightful, and penetrating minds in America today.” (Paul Johnson, author of Modern Times)

It is sad that too few will read or listen to this

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Yes - I would recommend this book to any friend who cares about this country and is interested in really understanding what is at stake in the current presidential election. If you saw 2016, here are more details. If you missed the movie, this is your chance to get the facts.

What was the most compelling aspect of this narrative?

Absence of outrageous opinion and the presence of objective facts.

What’s the most interesting tidbit you’ve picked up from this book?

Packed with captivating tidbits from start to finish.

Any additional comments?

This book may make you sick, but it is medicine that you need to take.

Disturbingly Awesome

Would you listen to The Roots of Obama’s Rage again? Why?

Possibly. But only to educate the unknowing. The whole affair is disheartening.

What other book might you compare The Roots of Obama’s Rage to and why?

Hating Whitey by Horowitz.

What about Sean Runnette’s performance did you like?

Everything. He is easy to listen to.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

NO! Tooooo rich. Like trying to eat a whole cheese cake in 1 sitting.

Any additional comments?

Everything makes sense now. The cover that this grossly unqualified person was( and still is) given by the press is stupefying. Hilary should have blown his doors off and left him in the dust. She'd have been better off if she'd have written her current book about that primary rather than this past election.

Read before you vote in November

Would you consider the audio edition of The Roots of Obama’s Rage to be better than the print version?

Only use audio and loved this presentation

What did you like best about this story?

Finding out who Obama really is

If you could give The Roots of Obama’s Rage a new subtitle, what would it be?

Must reading for every American

Every American should read this.

What did you love best about The Roots of Obama’s Rage?

It answered many questions I had about what drives Obama to make the choices he does.

What about Sean Runnette’s performance did you like?

It was easy to hear and understand.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes

Very Factual and Enlightning

If you could sum up The Roots of Obama’s Rage in three words, what would they be?

Important, reveling, Interesting

Would you be willing to try another book from Dinesh D’Souza? Why or why not?

Depends on the topic

What did you like about the performance? What did you dislike?

Well read but not performed

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

Hardly the topic to make you either laugh or cry, but it does elicit an emotional response of incredulity or despair depending on your point of view.

Any additional comments?

Interesting facts, based on his own writings, about what motivates the president, which is important to know to understand the direction he is leading the country, and as he has been reelected where the USA society could ultimately end up.

Great explanation of Obama

Would you consider the audio edition of The Roots of Obama’s Rage to be better than the print version?

It is easier for me to listen than read

What was the most compelling aspect of this narrative?

To find out the truth

Have you listened to any of Sean Runnette’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

No

Any additional comments?

An excellent book

Insightful Listen, But for the Glenn Beck Section

D'Souza has always been a breath of fresh air in today's mangled political discourse. Amid the pseudo-intellectual and outright fanciful commentaries from both the right and left, D'Souza injects an intellectual rigor, in-depth research and a cogent writing style in promoting his conservative perspective. As a centrist, D'Souza has been a important source of factual information and intelligent reasoning for the conservative side. And indeed in "Roots" he came through once again.

However in the chapter on economic policy D’Souza descends to over-simplification, calculated misrepresentation or naïveté. This chapter would have you believe that TARP, FinReg and stimulus spending were all engineered by Obama as part of a grand scheme to weaken post-colonial America. But the design of these policy measures were not conceived in the White House, but by a diverse group: Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, Paul Volcker, Tim Geitner and Henry Paulson (from an earlier administration). And I don't think you could argue that all these individuals share this anti-colonial viewpoint.

To demonstrate the `obvious' failure of stimulus he posits: Party A (taxpayer) gives money to Party B (Government). Party B now spends more, but Party A now spends less. Conclusion: No increase in economic activity--stimulus fails. Trouble is Party A is not a taxpayer, it is the Chinese. The Chinese give the US government money (i.e. buys our bonds) which is spent; current period economic activity/GDP must increase. Of course this has other rather negative consequences. But it is either a naïve or a purposely misleading to explain stimulus this way, one worthy of Glenn Beck.

Despite my disappointment in D'Souza in this section, I think this is an important book and would recommend it. There is enough substantive information here to overcome my misgivings.

If you want to understand Obama.

This book is a must-have for anyone who wants to understand Obama. The author lays out the only working theory that I have encountered that explains why Obama consistently takes actions that harm America.

Great Insight into Obama's Decisions

D'Souza takes a step by step approach in explaining to the listener the background for seemingly illogical decisions made by and subsequently implemented by our President. After listening to this book, television and newspaper pundits as well as people on the street who routinely say, "for the life of me I can't understand why he did this or that" will now have a clear understanding of the Obama descisions.
Unfortunately, the listener will also gain knowledge about how truly destructive these decisions will be for the United States of America. Obama does not believe in American exceptionalism and has said so in speeches quoted in this book. His actions to counter our exceptionalism are outlined in detail by D'Souza. The author is also able to explain the background behind our President's active attempts to reduce our role as the world's policeman and those policies aimed at reducing our standing in the world.
In summary, very insightful.

Now I Know Why

Whle a Canadian, I follow US politics as closely as the average American. While I was not a supporter of Obama because of his policies, this opposition was somewhat muted by my own "white guilt". While not wanting Obama to win, I was not overly upset because it did mark an historic landmark to have an African American elected to be the President of what was, at the time of his election, the most powerful country in the world. However, since that time, the worst of my fears have come to fruition, as I have seen his policies first slowly and ever more quickly erode the financial and the political power that once was supreme in all the world. While I think that this was inevitable given past governments, both Democrats Replicans, I believe that it has been accelerated under President Obama.

Dinesh D'Sousa's book provides a great deal of light on who President Obama is and how he got that way. While I'm sure that his character is much more complex than outlined in the book, as we all are, the book provides a window into a character who burst upon the political scene, a virtual unknown. While Mr. D'Sousa's obvious conservative values show through, particularly when outlining what Obama should have done, the true value is in his description of his theories as to the reasons why he has done the things that he has done. Well written and a captivating book!