Mainstream biographer Christopher Andersen confirmed Bill Ayers’s involvement in his Obama-friendly 2009 book, 
Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage. Andersen’s sources in Obama’s Hyde Park neighborhood told him that Obama found himself deeply in debt and “hopelessly blocked.” At “Michelle’s urging,” Obama “sought advice from his friend and Hyde Park neighbor Bill Ayers.”
What attracted the Obamas were “Ayers’s proven abilities as a writer” as evident in his 1993 book To Teach. Noting that Obama had already taped interviews with many of his relatives, both African and American, Andersen elaborates, “These oral histories, along with his partial manuscript and a trunkload of notes were given to Ayers.” Ayers himself took credit for Dreams on multiple occasions, usually, but not always, with a wink and a nod.
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