Apparently Obama has written very little about the law, even as editor of the Harvard Law Review. He seems to have published practically nothing as a law professor in Chicago. I was very surprised to learn that, as most university professors try to publish continuously.

I have been writing professionally, albeit modestly, for several years, and writing is hard work. To be fluid and fluent you have to do it every day. "Dreams From My Father" is very fluid and very layered in its prose. I don't see how someone who hasn't polished his craft assiduously could have written it.... Unless of course, he went into trance and took dictation from the Holy Spirit.

That certainly doesn't mean that Ayers wrote it... But I think "Dreams From My Father" could very well have been ghosted by some professional.