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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/06/03/entertainment/e095627D00.DTL&type=entertainmentRight-Wing Publishers Worry About Future
By HILLEL ITALIE, AP National Writer
(06-03) 09:56 PDT NEW YORK, (AP) --
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Authors of the right are unsure who to attack, and who to defend. There are no clear front-runners, Democratic or Republican, for the 2008 election. Democrats took over Congress after the 2006 election, but publishers agree they have been in power too briefly, and have accomplished too little, to anger the right.
Meanwhile, publishers say they rarely see proposals for books that praise Bush. His presidency is perceived as essentially over, and increasingly unpopular, even among those who have supported him.
"The ongoing war in Iraq and his positions on immigration and education has made it harder to get anyone to write books that rally behind him," Marji Ross said.
For liberals, as noted by BookExpo speaker Paul Krugman, the current trend is re-energizing the left, moving beyond the rants of Michael Moore's "Stupid White Men" and Krugman's 2003 best seller, "The Great Unraveling." Krugman, promoting the fall release "The Conscience of a Liberal," called for a "New" New Deal and expressed relief over President Bush's declining approval ratings.
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