How high will Clarke's "Against All Enemies" climb?

[tuvor]

Clinton mentioned it at least three times during the fox tabloid-TV interview.

This morning it was at #103 on Amazon; now it's at #90.
http://www.amazon.com/Against-All-Enemies-Americas-Terror/dp/0743260457/sr=8-1/qid=1159123954/ref=sr_1_1/104-7715381-5584755?ie=UTF8&s=books

[rainbow4321]

1. And will it beat out the book recommended by Chavez?

At this rate, look for the chimp regime to take over Amazon's website once books like these make the top 10!

[Pithy Cherub]

2. Even more when the movie is released.

That first chapter is so compelling that it was optioned and is now in production as a movie too. It's out in paperback too.

[BelgianMadCow]

3. I wondered too

He made the case who is THE one source to answer the question who did what on terra beautifully.

But I did not hear the name of the book mentioned, people will not know to look for ClarkE and the FOX audience is (:-)) considerably smaller than that of Chavez at the UN.

So I expect some gains but no top 10 for now.

[rzemanfl]

4. It was at #43 hard cover and #78 paperback earlier today. n/t

[rzemanfl]

5. #38 hard cover just a minute ago. n/t

[rainbow4321]

6. Wow..look's what some of the top books are on Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/new-for-you/top-sellers/-/books/all/ref=sv_b_2/002-4403072-4133639?%5Fencoding=UTF8

1) Hegemony or Survival...(paperback)

2)The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina

3) Letter to a Christian Nation

9)The God Delusion

11) Hegemony or Survival... (hardback)

12) Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq



Guess we won't be seeing this list on the MSM/Faux anytime soon.

[valerief]

7. I wonder how it will rank against the neobook Wallace was

shilling (quoting in his second question).

[tuvor]

8. Paperback's now at #49

Can't find a figure for the hardcover.

[Garbo 2004]

9. It's a very good and compelling book IMO. Clarke is hardly a partisan hack

for the Dems although they tried to portray him as such.

The book's supposed to be made into a film, but the director recently apparently bowed out to do something else so I don't know the status of the film at the moment. That book indeed would be a good primer for the real path to 9/11.

[EFerrari]

10. I bet we all know someone who hasn't read this book.

:evilgrin:

[Garbo 2004]

11. Think maybe Chrissy has an Amazon wish list? Maybe the poor

lil fella just needs some edjumacating? ;-)

Mebbe we just need to mail him a few copies. Heh. But knowing Faux, they'd probably have the NYPD blowing 'em up in their mailers as "terraist materials."

The truth can be a scary thing when you sell your soul for lies.

[EFerrari]

12. Last time we mass mailed Faux, they had to spring for a new ad

for Bin Reilly. :evilgrin:

[LiberalHeart]

13. It's at 34 right now (4:54 a.m. eastern Monday) ... not bad for 2004 book

[EFerrari]

14. That shows you how hungry people are for the truth.

:wow:

[REP]

15. Also Mentioned In This Month's Harper's By Daniel Ellsberg

[chat_noir]

16. Tops at Amazon

"Against All Enemies" at #11 now - see the date/time stamp from my Snag-It software.





Numbers 1 and 2:




The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina

From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. This blistering j'accuse has vitriol to spare for George Bush—calling him a "spoiled brat" and "blowhard"—and his policies, but its main target is the PR machinery that promoted those policies to the American people. New York Times columnist Rich revisits nearly every Bush administration publicity gambit, including Iraqi WMD claims, Bush's "Mission Accomplished" triumph, the Swift-boating of John Kerry and the writing of fake prowar letters-to-the-editor from soldiers. He uncovers nothing new, but his meticulously researched recap-cum-debunking—complete with appended 80-page time line comparing administration spin to actual events—builds a comprehensive picture of a White House propaganda campaign to bamboozle the public, smear critics, camouflage policy disasters and win the 2002 and 2004 elections through trumped-up security anxieties. Along the way, he pillories a sycophantic media (Bob Woodward gets spanked hard), spineless Democrats and an infotainment culture that happily accommodates the Bush administration's erasure of the line between reality and fiction. Sometimes Rich's critique of Republican politics as cynical image-manipulation goes overboard, as in his "wag the dog" theory of the Iraq war as a Karl Rove electoral maneuver; more often, though, it's on target. The result is a caustic, hard-hitting indictment of the Bush administration, timed to make a splash in the upcoming election campaign. (Sept. 19)

From Booklist
New York Times columnist Rich offers few revelations, but the weight of all the things already published about the war in Iraq and the rationale for going to war provides a staggering indictment of the Bush administration's penchant for "truthiness" and public-relations glitter rather than substantive policy. Rich's analysis is acidly pointed as he reviews the litany of half-truths told by the Bush administration in the lead-up to the war and since then. Faced with the prospect of an FBI whistle blower disclosing the administration's incompetence in recognizing terrorist threats before 9/11, the administration launched a stream of PR distractions: Bush's Top Gun appearance on a carrier with a banner announcing "Mission Accomplished," the false packaging of Private Jessica Lynch, the blustering about uncovering administration leakers when Valerie Plame was publicly revealed as an undercover agent. Rich maintains that Bush himself was behind the leak. By the time Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the PR spin machine that had sustained the president since 9/11 was in undeniable tatters. Rich offers a time line of events and commentary that makes the case that the government has played fast and loose with the facts regarding Iraq for political advantage.

[Stockholm]

17. I am certainly going to purchase a copy!

Good job by President Clinton!

[LizW]

18. Good!

Everyone should read Clarke's book. It is stunning. I read it before the 9/11 report came out, and as soon as I read the report, I knew they were lying about things. Thye lied about stuff they didn't even HAVE to lie about. I don't know why, but they did.