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In his memoir, Barack Obama omits the full name of his coach, simply contacting him "Frank." Now, the simple truth is out: Never has a figure as deeply troubling and controversial as Frank Marshall Davis possessed such an effect on the development of an American leader.Although other radical influences on Obama - from Jeremiah Wright to Monthly bill Ayers-have been scrutinized, the public knows little about Davis, a card-carrying person in the Communist Party USA, cited by the Associated Press as an "important influence" on Obama, one whom he "looked to" not only for "advice on living" but as a "father" figure. While the Departed has willingly dismissed Davis (with good reason), here will be the indisputable, eye-opening facts: Frank Marshall Davis was a pro-Soviet, pro-Red China communist. His Communist Party USA card quantity, uncovered in FBI files, was CP quantity 47544. He was a prototype of the loyal Soviet patriot, so radical that the FBI located him on the federal government's Security Index. In the first 1950s, Davis compared U.S. efforts to decrease Stalin and Mao. He preferred Red Military takeovers of Central and Eastern Europe, and communist control in Korea and Vietnam. Dutifully portion the reason, he edited and wrote for communist newspaper publishers in both Chicago and Honolulu, courting contributors who were Soviet brokers. In the 1970s, amid this dangerous political theatre, Frank Marshall Davis arrived to Barack Obama's life.Aided by usage of explosive declassified FBI files, Soviet archives, and Davis's original newspapers columns, Paul Kengor explores how Obama sought out Davis and how Davis within Obama an impressionable son, one susceptible to Davis's worldview that opposed American plan and traditional beliefs while praising communist regimes. Kengor sees remnants of the worldview in Obama's early on life and even, eventually, his presidency. Kengor charts with definitive reliability the progression of Davis's communist ideas from Chicago to Hawaii. He explores how certain components of the Obama administration's agenda reveal Davis's columns advocating riches redistribution, federal stimulus for "public works tasks," taxpayer-funding of general healthcare, and nationalizing Standard Motors. Davis's writings excoriated the "tentacles of big business," blasted Wall membrane Neighborhood and "greedy" millionaires, lambasted GOP taxes slices that "spare the abundant," attacked "excess profits" and olive oil companies, and identified the Catholic Cathedral as an obstacle to his eye-sight for the state-all the while echoing Davis's often repeated mantra for transformational and important "change."And yet, The Communist is not unsympathetic to Davis, revealing him as something of a victim, an BLACK who suffered damaging racial persecution in the Jim Crow period, steering this justly angered son over a misguided political trail. That Davis reinforced violent and heartless communist regimes over his own country is impossible to guard. That he was a way to obtain inspiration to President Barack Obama is impossible to dismiss. Is Obama attempting to fulfill the dreams of Frank Marshall Davis? That question has been impossible to answer, since Davis's writings and romantic relationship with Obama have either been intentionally obscured or dismissed as irrelevant. With Kengor's The Communist, People in america can finally consider the evidence and decide for themselves.
