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Behind the Bastards
It was described as a right-wing novel published in 2012, imagining a scenario where a Black president, initially named Barack Obama, attacks Iran, and an Iranian-American student, inspired by the Tea Party, attempts an assassination.
And the plot of this book, this is not the book we're covering this week. Okay. Okay. But you need to hear about it to get to that book.
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It was described as a right-wing novel published in 2012, imagining a scenario where a Black president, initially named Barack Obama, attacks Iran, and an Iranian-American student, inspired by the Tea Party, attempts an assassination.
And the plot of this book, this is not the book we're covering this week. Okay. Okay. But you need to hear about it to get to that book.
And the plot of the book is that an unhinged Barack Obama stand in president. Many such cases?
It's like one of those right wing, this is what Obama's right about to do books because he publishes it right before he gets reelected. I'm like, I think we've seen this film before.
His not Barack Obama stand in is Tyrell Johnson and is also a black president.
My favorite detail about the book, which I got from a Texas monthly review of it, is that the fake president in the book, Tyrell Johnson was originally just named Barack Obama and they did a find and replace.