A friend alerted me that David Remnick, the author of new Obama bio, The Bridge, was holding forth on WGN radio in Chicago.  Feeling mischievous, I phoned in, and they took my call. My central question to Remnick was this: why had he totally ignored Christopher Andersen's book, Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage.  Andersen, a mainstream biographer, had confirmed my thesis that Bill Ayers had helped Barack Obama write Dreams From My Father through solid, boots-on-the-ground reporting.   The host, Milt Rosenberg, allowed me to describe what Andersen had written.  As I related, in a lengthy and detailed section on the Obama's financial struggles in the early 1990s, Andersen tells of how at the urging of Michelle, a hopelessly blocked Obama brought to friend and neighbor Bill Ayers some taped oral histories, his partial manuscript and a trunk load of notes and asked for help.  The result was Dreams, a book Obama could not have written on...(Read Full Post)