Anti-Obama Book Tops NYT Bestseller List

NEW YORK — Whether they like him or oppose him, readers want to hear more about Barack Obama.

"The Obama Nation," an anti-Obama book written by Jerome V. Corsi, will debut at No. 1 come Sunday on The New York Times' hardcover nonfiction best-seller list. Corsi was co-author of "Unfit for Command," an influential 2004 best-seller that condemned the Vietnam War record of then Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry.

Obama, the Democrats' presumptive nominee in 2008, is himself the author of the million-selling "Dreams From My Father" and "The Audacity of Hope."

Interest in him is so strong that even an upcoming policy book, usually the toughest of sells, is catching on. A compilation of speeches and policy statements by Obama and his campaign staff, "Change We Can Believe In," had reached the top 75 on Amazon.com by Monday evening, less than a day after The Associated Press reported the book would come out in September.

"Change We Can Believe In" has an announced first printing of 300,000.

Comments

[chefrasta]

How many of these "books" were bought in bulk?I think the NYT needs to clarify were these books bought by individuals or by the usual suspects who buy in bulk just so they can get on the best sellrs list

[meanguy]

keep saying it, maybe someone will someday believe it...when your zeal for a candidate reaches the point that you forget that half the country disagrees with your opinion, you've gone from koolaid drinking to an IV

[harriscrl3]

Yeah I was afraid of that. Hence why these folks I hesitate to callt hem authors come out with such a book its to cash in on Obama's popularity. Trash unfortunately reaches high levels in this country.

Carol

[ShamusNYC]

The NYT has mis-categorized this "book" as non-fiction!

Jerome Corsi does not adhear to the major principles of research and his work is so clearly (yet, skillfully) biased as to make you wonder what was Harvard thinking when they gave him a degree.

He is the radical mullah to the "political terrorists" of the far- right - distorting facts and arguments to support a central thesis/goal, rather then letting the facts guide you.

[solbro]

doesn't matter. the titles and stories on the Net do as much damage as the books themselves. The Dems have no stomach for a street fight, either on the campaign trail or in congress. I'd never ever vote for a repub, but they do know how to win. The high road might make everyone feel better about themselves but if you can't get down in the dirt for what u believe in what good is it? Ends justify means.

[zendem1]

Amen to that