President Obama was born in Hawaii and is an American citizen. That much is true. But as the reviews of David Maraniss’ new book, Barack Obama: The Story come in, it appears that almost everything else in Obama’s supposed autobiography, Dreams from My Father, is complete fiction.

The Weekly Standard‘s Andrew Ferguson writes: Maraniss’s book is most interesting for the light it casts on Obama’s self-invention, which is of course the theme of Dreams from My Father … Years before Obama haters could inflate him into an America-destroying devil or Obama worshippers spied those rolling swells of greatness that have yet to surface, Barack Obama was carefully fashioning from his own life something grander than what was there. He was the first Obama fabulist”