Obama’s brother to release book

• George, 27, was in the news when a McCain backer accused Obama of neglecting him

Doctoral dissertation

Other Obama relatives are working on books, including a half sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng; and the brother of First Lady Michelle Obama, Craig Robinson.

Duke University Press is releasing the doctoral dissertation of the president’s mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, who died in 1995.

Another book authored by Dr Jerome Corsi was to be launched in Nairobi late last year but the ceremony failed to take off after the author was arrested and deported by Kenyan authorities.

The book The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality, which was heavily criticised worldwide for its inaccuracies, depicts Mr Obama, whose father was Kenyan, as a sympathiser of radical Islam and communism.

The decision to deport him was made after it emerged that Dr Corsi and Mr Bueler had entered the country as tourists, stating they intended to visit game parks.Barack Obama has written a pair of million-selling books, The Audacity of Hope and Dreams from My Father, in which he describes George Obama as “a handsome, roundheaded boy with a wary gaze.”