Dreams from My Father
Cannon offered Hertford College, Oxford philosopher Peter Millican $10,000 to prove that then-presidential candidate Barack Obama's memoir "Dreams from My Father" was ghostwritten by Bill Ayers by using computer analysis to compare that work to Ayers' "Fugitive Days". During the 2008 US Presidential election, conservatives attempted to link Obama to Ayers, a former radical leader of the Weather Underground. Regarding the claim that Ayers authored Obama's book, Millican concluded "I feel totally confident that it is false".