,Did Mike cheat with the weight loss, too?
,Kind of funny what a little money buys these days. Are book sales that slow that $42k makes a bestseller? The same is true in music since streaming services have killed record sales. If you want a #1 hit, pick a genre like jazz or classical, find a thousand friends to buy your physical record in a week and you’ve made it. You too can have a #1 hit and be as “good” as Coltrane or Yo-yo Ma.
I think Gabriel García Márquez and Jorge Luis Borges started out that way. Publicists hawked copies out of the trunk of an old car./S
Whatever works.
The deep state has deep pockets. Pompeo is their darling, as is Haley.
She got in before he did though so I wonder if he will be allowed to.
He couldn’t find friends or lobbyists to boost the book sales, so he had to do it himself? Sad.
That’s how all books written by politicians end up on the best-seller list. Between the PACs purchasing them and university libraries being required to purchase them, it adds up to a lot of books being sold. Most are paid for with our tax-dollars or political donations.
His new look reminds me of Victor Davis Hanson...
I’m still waiting for my copy. He’s one of the few that mostly escaped the Trump administration with their image relatively intact. Nikki was another one.
Just goes to show that pompeo is no different from any other politician.
“It’s not clear from the filing how many books the PAC bought, but it’s retailing for $20.04 on Amazon. At that price, the PAC could have purchased roughly 2100 copies.”
It is hard to believe that selling a mere 2100 copies of book will put it in the NYtimes best seller list, even at #3. I think a bare minimum would be 5-10k in a single week.
Shades of Jim Wright of Texas years ago. And any number of other politicos, I guess.
Reminds me of the scene in The Distinguished Gentleman where Olaf Anderson is reminding Dick Dodge about all the political favors he has done for him over the years. Among them is buying 10,000 copies of his “boring, dull-ass autobiography.” A true-to-life representation of the sleazy goings-on in Washington that continue to this day.