Anti-Bush Books Continue to Be Big Sellers

[Robbien]

NEW YORK (AP)--Newsmaking allegations, White House rebuttals and a ready audience for anti-Bush books have helped make Richard A. Clarke's ``Against All Enemies'' a big best seller, publishing officials say. ``Against All Enemies,'' released Monday, had an announced first printing of 300,000 copies and an additional 100,000 already have been ordered, according to the Free Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.




``It's blowing out at our stores,'' says Bob Wietrak, a vice president of merchandising at Barnes & Noble, Inc. ``There has been phenomenal publicity. The book has been talked about on every talk show and every news show you can think of. Also, he's an authority. He was there.''

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``You needed to have enough time go by so these more substantial books could have been written. The O'Neill and Clarke books could not have been written any sooner,'' says Neil Nyren, publisher and editor-in-chief of Putnam, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), which published Franken last fall and the Phillips book this winter.

Books unfavorable to Bush will continue coming out, including ``Worse Than Watergate,'' by John W. Dean, a former aide to President Nixon, and ``The Politics of Truth,'' by former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, who has criticized the White House's uses of intelligence before the Iraq war.

http://www.ajc.com/living/content/living/ap/ap_story.html/Entertainment/AP.V9867.AP-Terrorism-Advis.html

[liberalhistorian]

1. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

Oh, and did I mention BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! Can't you just hear the whiny hypocritical repukes crying foul now?

Well, I say that all of us who are financially able need to go out and buy at least one of these books, maybe more to make up for those who can't do it financially!

[Dulcinea]

4. And if finances are a problem, try eBay.

Bet you'll find what you want at a good price!

Worked for me!

[RebelOne]

21. Also, try Half.com.

They are a part of eBay now. But I sell books on Half.com and there are some real bargains.

[NightTrain]

6. You can borrow my copies of "Dude, Where's My Country," "Lies and the...

...Lying Liars Who Tell Them," "Bushwhacked," "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy," "Stupid White Men," "The Betrayal of America," and "Jews for Buchanan." I'll bring any or all of 'em with me when we finally meet for the first time. Just say the word!

[murielm99]

18. We pass our copies around in our local Democratic meetings.

Not everyone can afford them. We have several umemployed.

It is odd -- I have a rather extensive Watergate library. I was looking at it the other day. Maybe this so-called president will go the way of Nixon.

Nixon had his loyalists, too. There were many who refused to believe that he was a crook. They said, "Everybody does it. He just got caught."

He was never rehabilitated as an elder statesman, thank God. That is what I thought they would try to do.

I usually go to the library for my books. But Watergate...yeah. That is the last time I bought so many books about a President.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

30. There are waiting list hundreds long for liberal books at my library

I got "Sorrows of Empire" for my birthday after I'd complained to my dad that I was #300 on the wait list.

[Lisa]

31. I've been donating my copies to the local branch ...

The hardcovers, particularly, are much appreciated. And also DVDs (such as "Bowling for Columbine" and Noam Chomsky's lecture series.)

[fearnobush]

10. Clarke's is my fifth. I blame all those book sales on the Neo-cons

who have shut out the middle and the left from all mass media, especially radio. Think about it. When you add all of Gore's vote, and all of Nader's votes in 2000, the middle left and left actually won 54% of the voting public. So yes, we are a left leaning nation, under the dictatorship of Bush wacko Waco religous reactionaries.

[bagnana]

2. Just purchased Gore Vidal's "Dreaming War"

I saw him on Maher's show last night and was "shocked and awed" by his absolute shut down of the evil troll (Frum). Frum was sputtering and babbling while Gore, speaking slowly and grasping his cane like a hammer, annihilated him.

[rednek_Liberal]

14. Vidal was ...

in a word, Brilliant. I had no idea he could rebutt so well.
Im buying that book NEW.B-)

[Maccagirl]

3. Unlike the Hannity's of the world

these books are not bulk-ordered.


:evilgrin:

[kskiska]

5. …and they're not 100 pages

with 14-point type.

[cliss]

7. Yup. And don't let anyone tell you Bush is Boring.

Forget Clinton and his escapades. There is no limit to how much they can write about Bush and His Clowns. I must admit I love it.

It gives me new thrills to read the dirt being dished out about Donald Rums-filled, Condoliar, Colon Bowel, Asscrust, McFoolan, and an Entire Entourage of Amateurs.

And those fools in the White House better believe the tape recorder is always turned on. They're always fudging it, telling lies and having to cover up and re-think the lie and try to make it fit a new lie and hope no one finds out.

If it wasn't so tragic, it would be downright entertaining. But what the hell: revenge isn't all bad.

[gristy]

8. I'm only up to page 10

"It's blowing out at our stores," says Bob Wietrak, a vice president of merchandising at Barnes & Noble, Inc. "There has been phenomenal publicity. The book has been talked about on every talk show and every news show you can think of. Also, he's an authority. He was there."

But the first person account of what happened on 9/11 is pretty riveting (well, I guess not completely riveting, or I'd be reading it now :))

[DavidDvorkin]

9. Not all of them, sob

I know that mine is fiction and that the anti-Bush books in question are non-fiction, but still, it would be soooo nice. ...

[SideshowScott]

11. Meanwhile: Savage, Hannity and O'Reilly need to give away books ..

... Every 5 seconds on their radio shows. If you can stomach it its comical the way those three lunkheads give away their books within seconds. Heck Wiener was giving 2 books per call twice tonight.
Its too funny and it just what these liars and snake oil salesmen deserve..
I think that gravy train just dried up.

[RebelOne]

20. Hannity was whining on the radio yesterday

that he just knew that Clarke's book was going to be No. 1 on the NY Times best-seller list because people are just eating this stuff up.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

26. was he also whining

that people are "attacking him on amazon?"

he mentions that at least twice a day.

it really gets under his skin if you leave him a bad review

[Supormom]

29. Really ? He reads his own book reviews on Amazon?

I'll be sure to post a good,scathing review tonight!

[number6]

12. GRRR-REAT !!!!! super, good, right-on

:thumbsup:

[Fargin Ice Hole]

13. DAMN you libral media!!!!!!! DAMN you!!!!!!!!! n/t

[0007]

15. Now if only Dick Cheney would write a book called, "Loaded For Bear"

I hope some freepers pick up on that one.

[DeepModem Mom]

16. kick

[Democat]

17. Do the Democratic congresspeople get copies of these books?

I hope someone is making sure that Democrats in power are reading these books.

[dbt]

19. And remember, there's "no market for left-leaning" books, media, etc.

The Cons have been parroting that line of BS for years now. Trouble is, you can't beat a good story. And the Regime is full of enough (frighteningly) good stories to run a TV network 24/7.

I guess book burnings are the Cons' next step!

:evilgrin:
dbt

[JoFerret]

22. And then there's the one guarenteed to get under W's skin

Bush on the Couch - an analysis of his psyche and personality. Harder to deny because denying only draws attention.

[MountainLaurel]

23. Saw this firsthand

Over the weekend, my sweetie and I were visiting various bookstores in the DC area, including an average B&N in an affluent sort of area where Repukes would be expected to roam. We were knocked over by the number of works out there revealing details about the Bushistas, the Repukes in general, and the war on terra'.

I hoe they keep on coming and continue to get publicity.

:bounce:

[colonel odis]

24. and what's always fun is placing an anti-bush book

on a display right next to sean's new one or one of o'reilly's tomes.

remember! fighting back can be fun!

[JoFerret]

25. Slip a Bush Lies

sticker inside as a complementary book mark!

[colonel odis]

28. oooooooooh. good one. n/t

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

27. janeane garofalo has one in the fall

september, i believe

[primavera]

32. The last bastion of free speech

Thank God the publishing industry isn't subject to the same corporatist editorial controls that have transformed American media into GOP propaganda rags. This is about the only place left where a reader can still hear anything resembling truth. I hope the media is paying attention to the popularity of these books and taking a serious look at the wisdom of having sold out their journalistic integrity for a few advertising bucks.

[Just Me]

33. Wow,...he could prove to set yet another record,...

,...of debt, of lies, of wars and of books which "burn" his evil ass along with all those, including his lineage, who endear him.

In my humble view,...they deserve everything that they get, tenfold!!

[King of New Orleans]

34. In my bookstore

Which is one of the two big chains, Against all Enemies has passed Hannity in overall sales in just three days (Hannity's book has been out for 5 weeks)

In the immortal words of Nelson Muntz, HA-ha.

[LiberalFighter]

35. Too bad we can't get sales numbers for each city or bookstore