The Daily Beast ranks the top-selling politicians in book publishing over the last decade: 1. Barack Obama — 4,650,000 copies sold 2. Jimmy Carter — 2,218,000 copies sold 3. Bill Clinton — 1,899,000 copies sold 4. Al Franken — 1,777,000 copies sold 5. Hillary Clinton — 1,491,000 copies sold 6. Sarah Palin — 1,455,000 copies sold 7. Newt Gingrich — 1,098,000 copies sold 8. Al Gore — 913,000 copies sold 9. Ted Kennedy — 651,000 copies sold 10. John McCain — 614,000 copies sold
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Big Book of Breasts
How about it — a giant book of giant boobs as coffee table reading material. Ah, ain’t life sweet? Just don’t forget to put this bad boy in its secret spot when mom and dad stop by. Great gift for the single guy. He’ll get a big kick out of the Big Book of Breasts. $44
book bath
“This is going to come as quite a shock to people up here that I can write a book, much less read one.”
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“Let me get this straight,” summed up one of our colleagues. “We should work for the candidate with no chance, no money, and the funny name?”
“As I keep telling you guys,” [David Axelrod] wryly replied, “I am a terrible businessman.”
The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama’s Historic Victory
By David Plouffe
“One of the most intriguing findings of this new science of reading is that the literate brain actually has two distinct pathways for reading. One pathway is direct and efficient, and accounts for the vast majority of reading comprehension — we see a group of letters, convert those letters into a word, and then directly grasp the word’s meaning. However, there’s also a second pathway, which we use whenever we encounter a rare and obscure word that isn’t in our mental dictionary. As a result, we’re forced to decipher the sound of the word before we can make a guess about its definition, which requires a second or two of conscious effort.”
Reading in the Brain - The Barnes & Noble Review
via thedailydish
“…The lies and truths and half-truths and the facts and non-facts are all blurred together in a pious puree of such ghastly prose that, in the end, the book can only really be read as a some kind of chapter in a cheap nineteenth century edition of “Lives of the Saints.” But as autobiography.
It is a religious book, full of myths and parables. And yet it is also crafted politically, with every single “detail” of the narrative honed carefully for specific constituencies. It is also some kind of manifesto - but not in the usual sense of a collection of policy proposals. It is a manifesto for the imagined life of an imagined Sarah Palin as a leader for all those who identify with the image and background she relentlessly claims to represent….”
Deconstructing Sarah, Ctd - Andrew Sullivan
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Richard Dawkins at the Edinburgh Book Festival 2009
Richard Dawkins talks about his latest book “The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence For Evolution”
Richard Dawkins: God among atheists…The scientist talks about his guide to evolution, his own fame and why it’s pointless to argue with creationists.
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Richard Dawkins gives an introduction to his new book “The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution.” He explains why this book was necessary, and what readers can expect from this highly-anticipated work. The book is available now in the UK, and will be released in the US on September 22nd!
Read the first chapter here: RichardDawkins.net
What President Obama’s summer reading list says about him. - By John Dickerson - Slate Magazine
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