Where's the Birth Certificate?

Where's the Birth Certificate?

Author	Jerome R. Corsi
Language	English
Subject	Obama, Barack--Genealogy.
Genre	Politics
Published	May 17, 2011
Publisher	WND Books
Publication place	United States
Media type	Hardcover
Pages	392
ISBN	978-1-936488-29-2
OCLC	698332449
Preceded by	The Obama Nation

Where's the Birth Certificate?: The Case That Barack Obama Is Not Eligible to Be President is a book by Jerome Corsi which promotes the false claim that then U.S. president Barack Obama was not a natural-born citizen of the United States and was thus constitutionally unqualified to hold the office. The book was released on May 17, 2011, and reached No. 6 on the New York Times list of best-selling hardcover non-fiction books. It has been publicized in politically conservative venues.

The book alleges inconsistencies and fabrications in Obama's life story as well as a conspiracy and cover-up by Obama and the White House Press Office. The book says, among other things, that Obama cannot be a natural-born citizen because, as a boy, he was registered in school as a Muslim and a citizen of Indonesia. The book also alleges that Obama spent millions in legal fees to avoid having to provide a long-form birth certificate to the courts,^[1] an assertion which has been disputed by Obama supporters.^[2] Obama released his birth certificate several weeks before Where's the Birth Certificate? was published, but the book was nonetheless released unedited. The book's publisher responded to the birth certificate release by saying that Corsi was "deeply suspicious of the authenticity of this document".^[3]