Take a look at this week's NY Times Non-Fiction Best Seller List:

[LynneSin]

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/14/books/bestseller/0914besthardnonfiction.html

#1 LIES (AND THE LYING LIARS WHO TELL THEM), by Al Franken. (Dutton, $24.95.) A satirical critique of the rhetoric of right-wing pundits and politicians.
#4 LIVING HISTORY, by Hillary Rodham Clinton. (Simon & Schuster, $28.) A memoir by the junior senator from New York and former first lady.

#8: BIG LIES, by Joe Conason. (Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's, $24.95.) A journalist examines conservatives' use of rhetorical argument in modern political discourse.

#9: THIEVES IN HIGH PLACES, by Jim Hightower. (Viking, $24.95.) The political commentator and former Texas agriculture commissioner issues a call to action against what he sees as a modern-day American "kleptocracy." (+)

#15 *STUPID WHITE MEN, by Michael Moore. (ReganBooks/HarperCollins, $24.95.) Assailing politicians, corporations and our "nation of idiots." (+) (btw, came out 59 weeks ago!!)

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Treason is #5. My only concern is why are we bulk-ordering some of these books. I was a little distressed to see the dagger next to Moore & Hightower's book. I think we liberals can buy these books in enough qualities that we shouldn't lower ourselves to their standards. But you have to give Moore credit - 59 weeks and his book is still standing strong!!!

[SmileyBoy]

1. "Treason" was mostly bulk-ordered.

I don't even think most of those copies landed in the hands of prospective readers. I think there's hundreds of thousands of them lying in some warehouse in New Jersey.

[LynneSin]

2. Yes, but did you notice we had 2 bulk order books too

I'm trying to figure that one out. I mean we're all aware of the stigma we progressives give to the bulk order (+). Why would we stoop to that level, especially with "Stupid White Men" which has a stellar reputation from being on the best seller list for over 59 weeks.

Unless of course, repukes are bulk order them in order to make us look bad.

I'm scratching my head on that one

[Gogi]

3. Hightower's book is being offered

by the Book of the Month Club. Could that be a reason? (So is demented Annies, yech!)

[dobak]

4. FYI

Treason fell off the Borders hardcover bestsellers list thereby losing its coveted 30% discount. Treason also fell to #8 at B&N's hardcover non-fiction list and will probably fall off next week (according to my wife, who works for one of the top 5 largest B&N's in the U.S.)

Bye-bye Manthrax

:-)

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Just to put a smile on your face

At the Borders that I work at, we have sold 325 copies of "Lies" and 21 copies of "Treason"

Yes, that is 325 to 21

That is not in the last week, that is in the last year.

[pfitz59]

5. Read #1 and #4......

Will work on the rest......

[dobak]

6. Amazon.com Top 100 - current

#1 - Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken :thumbsup:

#7 - The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century by Paul Krugman :thumbsup:

#26 - Losing Bin Laden: How Bill Clinton's Failures Unleashed Global Terror by Richard Miniter :thumbsdown:

#29 - Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth by Joe Conason :thumbsup:

#33 - Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country--And Its Time to Take It Back by Jim Hightower :thumbsup:

#57 - Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America by Molly Ivin :thumbsup:

#59 - Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism by Ann Coulter :puke:

#73 - Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich :thumbsup:

#78 - Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser :thumbsup:

#79 - A People's History of the United States : 1492-Present by Howard Zinn :thumbsup:

#88 - Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation! by Michael Moore :thumbsup:

#93 - Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot: And Other Observations by Al Franken :thumbsup:


WOW!

9-2 Liberals Win!


#119 - Dude, Where's My Country? by Michael Moore :thumbsup:
#136 - Who's Looking Out for You by Bill O'Reilly :puke:

[TreasonousBastard]

7. About Hillary--

My brother may have posted here that he went into his local Midwestern library to get a copy of Hillary's, and was told they are going to order a few more because the four they had were out and there was a waiting list.

Asked about Annthrax's, the librarian said they have no copies, and no one asked for it.

[qb]

8. Check out the rest of the top 10

2 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
3 UNDER THE BANNER OF HEAVEN, explores the implications of the murder of a woman by two religious fundamentalists.
6 KATE REMEMBERED, ( Katharine Hepburn - liberal, atheist)
7 SEABISCUIT
10 A SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING


Mannthrax is the only neocon on list. The rest (with the exception of the pony tale) represent science & rationalism - the anti-neocon.