The Faith of Barack Obama is a book that seeks to sift through all of the available material to determine what it is that the nation’s first black president believes. Using speeches, news reports, the president’s own books, interviews and other sources, Mansfield paints a portrait of Barack Obama that some will agree with and others wholeheartedly disagree. As the reader of this review, you are encouraged to form your own opinion based on the facts presented in the book from a large variety of sources. After acknowledging polling data which reveals the confusion of Americans as to what faith the president actually belongs to, the author seeks to unravel this mystery in a coherent form. He begins with Obama’s speech at the Democratic convention of 2004. This is where a man with a strange name was first introduced to the nation in a very big way. In that speech, he began to articulate a religiously Left vision for the nation as an alternative...
