In his new memoir, “A Promised Land,” Barack Obama attempts to do something the reviewers 
havechosen not to notice, namely to surgically excise his father from his fabled and apparently fabricated life story.
In brief, Obama has shored up his American roots by obliterating his international ones. This move took some thought. Obama wrote his first memoir, “Dreams from My Father,” about his Homeric quest for identity, a Telemachus searching for his own Odysseus, the Kenyan Barack Obama.
Stunningly, in “A Promised Land,” the Kenyan is an afterthought.
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