T**********e
发帖数: 29576 | 1 八马的白女朋友前一阵出来说，八马自传里和她经历的种族激辩和各个心潮澎湃的情节
都是编的。
结果八马亮出自传出版的一个fine print，说书里人物可能是composite figure，八马
可以把经历过的事情汇集到一个人身上写，所以O8仍然伟大光荣正确。
傅萍应该再版时加上这么一条小字，书里自己的经历可以是身边人的或是中国人可能受
到的迫害，in President Obama's style。
Obama: 'New York girlfriend' was composite
By DYLAN BYERS |
5/2/12 12:08 PM EDT
Editors’ Note: The original version of this post inaccurately stated that
Barack Obama had not revealed creating composite characters in his book, “
Dreams from My Father.” An update to the post was added that Obama had
acknowledged using composite characters in a reissue of the book.
One of the more mysterious characters from President Obama's 1995
autobiography Dreams From My Father is the so-called 'New York girlfriend.'
Obama never referred to her by name, or even by psuedonym, but he describes
her appearance, her voice, and her mannerisms in specific detail.
But Obama has now told biographer David Maraniss that the 'New York
girlfriend' was actually a composite character, based off of multiple
girlfriends he had both in New York City and in Chicago.
"During an interview in the Oval Office, Obama acknowledged that, while
Genevieve was his New York girlfriend, the description in his memoir was a
“compression” of girlfriends, including one who followed Genevieve [Cook]
when he lived in Chicago," Maraniss writes in his new biography, an excerpt
of which was published online today by Vanity Fair.
"In Dreams from My Father, Obama chose to emphasize a racial chasm that
unavoidably separated him from the woman he described as his New York
girlfriend," Maraniss writes, offering a passage from the book in which they
go to see a play by a black playwright:
One night I took her to see a new play by a black playwright. It was a
very angry play, but very funny. Typical black American humor. The audience
was mostly black, and everybody was laughing and clapping and hollering like
they were in church. After the play was over, my friend started talking
about why black people were so angry all the time. I said it was a matter of
remembering—nobody asks why Jews remember the Holocaust, I think I said—
and she said that’s different, and I said it wasn’t, and she said that
anger was just a dead end. We had a big fight, right in front of the theater
. When we got back to the car she started crying. She couldn’t be black,
she said. She would if she could, but she couldn’t. She could only be
herself, and wasn’t that enough.
"None of this happened with Genevieve," Maraniss writes. "She remembered
going to the theater only once with Barack, and it was not to see a work by
a black playwright. When asked about this decades later, during a White
House interview, Obama acknowledged that the scene did not happen with
Genevieve. “It is an incident that happened,” he said. But not with her.
He would not be more specific, but the likelihood is that it happened later,
when he lived in Chicago. “That was not her,” he said. “That was an
example of compression I was very sensitive in my book not to write about my
girlfriends, partly out of respect for them. So that was a consideration. I
thought that [the anecdote involving the reaction of a white girlfriend to
the angry black play] was a useful theme to make about sort of the
interactions that I had in the relationships with white girlfriends. And so,
that occupies, what, two paragraphs in the book? My attitude was it would
be dishonest for me not to touch on that at all … so that was an example of
sort of editorially how do I figure that out?”"
Broadway Books, a division of Random House's Crown Publishing Group, did not
immediately respond to a request for comment.
(VIDEOS: The Obama presidency)
UPDATE: In the reissue of "Dreams from My Father," Obama writes in the
introduction that "some of the characters that appear are composites of
people I’ve known." | N*****m
发帖数: 42603 | 2 牛逼
【在 T**********e 的大作中提到】
: 八马的白女朋友前一阵出来说，八马自传里和她经历的种族激辩和各个心潮澎湃的情节
: 都是编的。
: 结果八马亮出自传出版的一个fine print，说书里人物可能是composite figure，八马
: 可以把经历过的事情汇集到一个人身上写，所以O8仍然伟大光荣正确。
: 傅萍应该再版时加上这么一条小字，书里自己的经历可以是身边人的或是中国人可能受
: 到的迫害，in President Obama's style。
: Obama: 'New York girlfriend' was composite
: By DYLAN BYERS |
: 5/2/12 12:08 PM EDT
: Editors’ Note: The original version of this post inaccurately stated that
| c******k
发帖数: 8998 | 3 那还自传个jb啊
【在 T**********e 的大作中提到】
: 八马的白女朋友前一阵出来说，八马自传里和她经历的种族激辩和各个心潮澎湃的情节
: 都是编的。
: 结果八马亮出自传出版的一个fine print，说书里人物可能是composite figure，八马
: 可以把经历过的事情汇集到一个人身上写，所以O8仍然伟大光荣正确。
: 傅萍应该再版时加上这么一条小字，书里自己的经历可以是身边人的或是中国人可能受
: 到的迫害，in President Obama's style。
: Obama: 'New York girlfriend' was composite
: By DYLAN BYERS |
: 5/2/12 12:08 PM EDT
: Editors’ Note: The original version of this post inaccurately stated that
| T**********e
发帖数: 29576 | 4
不是一家人，不进一家门。傅萍能摸进八马的白宫，他们是相通的，方式方法都是米国
主流媒体认可的。靠辩事实没用。
【在 N*****m 的大作中提到】
: 牛逼
| x****u
发帖数: 12955 | 5 At least O8 didn't invent his whole life, only one character. | N*****m
发帖数: 42603 | 6 te'o?
【在 x****u 的大作中提到】
: At least O8 didn't invent his whole life, only one character.
| T**********e
发帖数: 29576 | 7
他写老爸受英国殖民当局迫害的事情，他老爸肯尼亚的邻居们都没听说过。
【在 x****u 的大作中提到】
: At least O8 didn't invent his whole life, only one character.
| T**********e
发帖数: 29576 | 8
都是宣传品，被人捧以达到政治目的。傅萍的书是用来抹黑中国的，中国人上窜下跳批
判她正好扩大宣传。
【在 c******k 的大作中提到】
: 那还自传个jb啊
| s******r
发帖数: 5309 | | c******k
发帖数: 8998 | 10 最后一句我不同意，中国人不出来批她，一样有美国媒体给他造势。
【在 T**********e 的大作中提到】
:
: 都是宣传品，被人捧以达到政治目的。傅萍的书是用来抹黑中国的，中国人上窜下跳批
: 判她正好扩大宣传。
| T**********e
发帖数: 29576 | 11
她这种陈谷子烂芝麻的破书真不知道怎么炒起来的。
【在 c******k 的大作中提到】
: 最后一句我不同意，中国人不出来批她，一样有美国媒体给他造势。
| O*******d
发帖数: 20343 | 12 她有公关团队，专门到各个媒体去给傅苹推销。傅苹在广播电视杂志上的采访，都是这
样安排的。
【在 T**********e 的大作中提到】
:
: 她这种陈谷子烂芝麻的破书真不知道怎么炒起来的。
| O*******d
发帖数: 20343 | |
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