Political and Issue Books Out or Coming Out This Year

Handy List my local paper put out.

Bush under fire

"The Case for Impeachment: The Legal Argument for Removing George W. Bush From Office" by Dave Kindorff and Barbara Olshansky. (St. Martin's, $23.95). Oct.

"Pretensions to Empire: A Case for Impeachment" by Lewis Lapham. (The New Press, $24.95). Sept.

"Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal and the Selling of the Iraq War" by Michael Isikoff and David Corn. (Crown, $25.95). Oct.

"The Republican Playbook" by Andy Borowitz. (Hyperion, $16.95). Oct.

"Armed Madhouse" by Greg Palast. (Dutton, $25.95).

More at Link: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06176/701028-44.stm

Publishers pouring out volumes on the issues of the day
Sunday, June 25, 2006

They've been arriving regularly since early spring, first in a trickle, now in a steady stream and by the end of August, a flood.

Inspired by the ongoing U.S. occupation of Iraq, the Bush administration's war on terror and domestic policies, the performance of the news media and the vicious partisan nature of today's politics, mainstream publishers are releasing an unusual amount of books on current affairs.

"Ten years ago, political books didn't sell very well," said Patricia Schroeder, president of the American Association of Publishers. "Now, in the last three or four years, the sales are off the charts. Look at the last election with the Al Frankens, Michael Moores, Bill O'Reillys. The publishers know this and they're responding."

Schroeder, a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives -- and a Democrat -- also brought up best-selling books by former Bush administration officials like former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and Environmental Protection Agency Director Christine Todd Whitman.

"I call it their 'exit strategy.' These people are loyal until they leave the corral and then they can write a controversial book," she laughed.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06176/700454-44.stm

If a handful of editors and marketing people make a right turn at a big publishing convention and no one hears it, did they make a peep?

Hardly.

Saturday afternoon at the huge new Convention Center here, filled to capacity this past weekend by that massive annual trade show of the book biz called BEA (BookExpo America), a group of conservative editors and sales execs took a chance.

They gathered in their chosen venue, Room 203AB, for a panel on "Selling and Promoting Right of Center Books Via Left of Center Channels." Outside, close to 30,000 of the other attendees milled about in what might have seemed aisles and aisles of such channels, sampling the coming year's wares. They include:

Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas Ricks (September, Penguin).

The Best War Ever: Lies, Damn Lies, and the Mess in Iraq by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber (September, Tarcher).

Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders and the People Who Fight Back by Amy and David Goodman (September, Hyperion).

See a pattern yet?

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/entertainment/columnists/carlin_romano/14643407.htm


Rambo, thanks for your post. Didn't have two of them in my compilation of The Power of Books DU Research Forum thread.