LOGO: Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines. A Progressive Journal of News and Opinion. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman. Winner 2013 Webby Awards for Best Political Website
May 25, 2013

 Choose a size
Text Size

Trending:     chris hedges     economy     elizabeth warren     politics     robert scheer
Most Read

Three Questions Left Unanswered by Obama’s Counterterrorism Speech

How to Make a Million Dollars an Hour

Marching in Chicago: Resisting Rahm Emanuel’s Neoliberal Savagery

Colbert Slams PBS for Appeasing Koch Brothers

Corporate Tax Cheats by the Numbers

Most Comments
Most Emailed

Reports
 * NEW! * A Cooler Century? Wait and See
New York City’s Summers May Heat Up

Ear to the Ground

A/V Booth

Arts & Culture
A Call to Action
Act of Congress

Digs

Truthdig Bazaar
The Road

The Road

By Cormac McCarthy

more items

 
Arts and Culture

Obama’s Book Sales Riding the Tsunami

Email this item Email    Print this item Print    Share this item... Share

Posted on Nov 10, 2008
Audacity of Hope
barackobama.net

Nothing like winning a presidential election to send your book sales through the roof, as Barack Obama and his presumably gleeful publishers are discovering. Obama’s two books, “Dreams From My Father” and “The Audacity of Hope,” were already best-sellers without the post-election bump, but now they’re selling big even in John McCain’s home state.


AP via Yahoo News:

On the weekend after he became the country’s first black president-elect, Obama’s “The Audacity of Hope” and “Dreams from My Father,” both already million sellers, ranked No. 1 and No. 2, respectively, on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com.

Both hardcover and paperback editions of “Audacity of Hope” were out of stock Sunday on Amazon.

Read more

More Below the Ad

Advertisement

Get truth delivered to
your inbox every week.

Previous item: Alice Walker’s Message to Obama

Next item: Jane Ciabattari on Toni Morrison’s ‘A Mercy’



New and Improved Comments

If you have trouble leaving a comment, review this help page. Still having problems? Let us know. If you find yourself moderated, take a moment to review our comment policy.

By Clemo, November 14, 2008 at 6:28 pm Link to this comment

If you can’t read get the audio (he reads it and he wrote it himself). If you can’t buy it get it at the library.

Dreams from My Father is a good book too and very interesting because he wrote it and it is not political at all. It’s as if he had no inclination that he would be in public office, and he bears a lot.

Report this

By Maani, November 11, 2008 at 3:58 pm Link to this comment

LOL.  Much better…

Report this

By troublesum, November 11, 2008 at 2:32 pm Link to this comment

Most of the political autobiographies I have skimmed didn’t do anything for me.

Report this

By Maani, November 11, 2008 at 2:27 pm Link to this comment

troublesum:

“I don’t have to read them.  I know intuitively what they say.  Reading them would be a waste of time.”  You are simply repeating yourself here - as wrongly as you stated initially.

“I am not cynical.  I’m skeptical.”

Nope.  A skeptic would say, “Most of the books I’ve read or heard about by politkcal types amount to the same thing…” instead of “they ALL amount to…” (emphasis mine).

You are a cynic, not a skeptic, no matter how much you protest to the contrary.

Peace.

Report this

By troublesum, November 11, 2008 at 2:22 pm Link to this comment

Maani,
I am not cynical.  I’m skeptical.

Report this

By troublesum, November 11, 2008 at 2:20 pm Link to this comment

Maani,
I don’t have to read them.  I know intuitively what they say.  Reading them would be a waste of time.

Report this

By Maani, November 11, 2008 at 1:23 pm Link to this comment

troublesum:

You’re not satisfied “judging a book by its cover”; you judge books by their writers and presumed content.  How on God’s great earth would you know that “They all amount to the same thing: ‘The world is so lucky I’m here’” if you don’t read them?  Would you provide a review of a movie you have not seen?  A restaurant you have not eaten in?

You really need to curb that cynicism.

Peace.

Report this

By troublesum, November 11, 2008 at 12:39 pm Link to this comment

Every candidate for president feels obligated to put out a book now.  I have never been able to real a single one including Obama’s.  They all amount to the same thing: “The world is so lucky I’m here.”  How can people read that stuff.

Report this

By P. T., November 10, 2008 at 8:15 pm Link to this comment

I want to know what he says about Occidental College.  My mom and uncle went there.  I know Sean Hannity said that Obama said he signed up for classes taught by Marxist professors there.  lol

Report this

By Maani, November 10, 2008 at 7:13 pm Link to this comment

Excuse me, but why does something that sells fast sell “like hotcakes?”  I have never seen hotcakes sell all that fast.  Especially now, in a bad economy in which hotcakes are something of a luxury.  After all, fewer people can afford IHOP’s prices these days…

Report this
Newsletter

sign up to get updates


 
 
 
 
Join the Liberal Blog Advertising Network
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

A Progressive Journal of News and Opinion. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman.
© 2013 Truthdig, LLC. All rights reserved.