#1 In Books
Going Rogue: An American Life Sarah Palin. You should see the company she’s keeping. Top right and left titles below. Right’s beating left like a rented mule. First, Amazon’s “Rogue” dustjacket blurb:
From her humble beginnings to her time in the spotlight as the first female Republican Vice Presidential candidate, Sarah Palin has led an extraordinary life. Going Rogue will recount her political experiences, her time as Mayor of Wasilla and as the first female governor of Alaska, as well as her rapid rise on the national stage during the 2008 campaign. Additionally, she’ll share insights into the personal challenges she’s faced including balancing her time as a working mother, recognizing the war’s impact with her son serving combat in Iraq, having a child with a disability and supporting her teenage daughter through an unplanned pregnancy.
Palin has received much attention through the media, but never before has her complete story been told in her own words. The memoir will be both a personal and political chronicle of her life.
It’s tops at Barnes & Noble, too. Palin’s “grateful.” Politico. Meanwhile, in other top right titles at Amazon …
#3 Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government Glenn Beck
#8 End the Fed Ron Paul (probably belongs under “Top Ron Paul title.” It’s in the “Delusional” section of your local bookstore.)
#15 Glenn Beck’s Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine Glenn Beck
#25 Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies Michelle Malkin
#30 at Amazon, Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto Mark Levin
Top lefty title, True Compass: A Memoir by Ted Kennedy at #6, and he’s dead. Make that “only lefty title” by any author, living or dead, in the target range, lagging behind The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown at #2 and Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days by Jeff Kinney at #5. (Currently being given away on local public radio with your pledge to support lefty news-gathering. “True Compass,” that is, not “Wimpy Kid.”)
Hang on, how do you class High On Arrival, at #20, by Mackenzie Phillips? Lefty title? No idea what her politics are but her bio’s a testament to the highest 1960s counterculture ideals and standards of achievement. Also, at #10, there’s Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association:
The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association” is the style manual of choice for writers, editors, students, and educators in the social and behavioral sciences. It provides invaluable guidance on all aspects of the writing process, from the ethics of authorship to the word choice that best reduces bias in language.
That’s not a style manual! That’s a PC manifesto! Read and obey.
In other business, at #4, How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It: Tactics, Techniques, and Technologies for Uncertain Times James Wesley Rawles. Draw your own conclusions.
#11 The Time of My Life Patrick Swayze, star of that great, under-appreciated American film, Red Dawn.
#21 Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman Jon Krakauer
Back to Palin, if pre-pub sales are any guide, it looks like she may have more resonance and staying power than a lot of people thought.
HotAir, “Amazing,” notes that Palin’s pre-pub non-fiction top-slot hogging may be unprecedented.
GOP 12: Train wreck or gravy train?
Interesting review of Palin’s recent Hongkong speech, her “common-sense conservatism” and some sophisticated and nuanced foreign policy views at Beliefnet.
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Posted by Jules Crittenden at 7:11 am Comments (2) on Thursday, October 1, 2009
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October 1st, 2009 at 11:31 am
Speaking of books, I just finished Amy MacKinnon’s Tethered. I liked it a lot.