Chavez Pushes Chomsky Book To Number 4 Bestseller

[G2099]

At the start of his talk Wednesday, during which Chavez referred to President Bush as "the devil," Chavez held up a book by Noam Chomsky, "Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance," and recommended it to everyone in the General Assembly, as well as to the American people.

As of Thursday afternoon, "Hegemony or Survival," originally published in 2003, had jumped into the top 10 of Amazon and Barnes & Noble.com.

And what a jump: Amazon said the book had zoomed from No. 20,664 on its bestseller list to No. 4 for the day.

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-et-chomsky22sep22%2C0%2C6827400.story?coll=la-headlines-politics

[KingFlorez]

1. That's impressive

[katinmn]

2. It's number 1 now.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2197483&mesg_id=2197483

[Fridays Child]

4. Woohoo! I love it!

:woohoo:

[bobbolink]

3. Hurrah for Chavez and Chomsky!!

Maybe a few folk will learn something.

[Judi Lynn]

5. Reuters: Chávez endorsement results in a best-seller

Chávez endorsement results in a best-seller
Reuters, The New York Times

Published: September 22, 2006

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Chávez did make one mistake: At a news conference after his UN address, he expressed regret at not having met Chomsky before the linguist's death.

A call to Chomsky's house in Lexington, Massachusetts, found him very much alive. "I continue to work and write," he said.

He also said he was struggling through "10,000 e-mails" that he had received since the remarks by Chávez.

While retired from teaching full time, Chomsky said he still went to his office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, occasionally lecturing and also working on a new book.

Chomsky, 77, said that he was glad that Chávez liked his book, but that he not describe himself as flattered. "We should look at ourselves through our own eyes and not other people's eyes," he said.

Chomsky said he had taken no offense at Chávez's remarks about his being dead. It did land him in the exclusive club of luminaries, like Mark Twain, who was reported dead before his time. $@

"The Bush administration backed a coup to overthrow his government," Chomsky said. "Suppose Venezuela supported a military coup that overthrew the government of the United States? Would we think it was a joke?" $@(Reuters, NYT)

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/09/22/news/chomsky.php

[katinmn]

6. and based on my few interactions with Chomsky, he is endeavoring

to respond with a personal comment to each of the 10,000 emails. He is a nice man, as well as a brilliant man.