Ann Coulter's "Treason" now listed #2 on NYT Best Seller List

New York Times | July6, 2003 | New York Times

[kitkat]

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I think maybe we'll do a blow up picture of the cover of Treason for the Arkansas booksigning FReeps of Hillary,...***

What a great idea!

[RonDog]

From www.nytimes.com (No charge registration required):

July 13, 2003

Hardcover Nonfiction

This Week		Last Week	Weeks On List
1	LIVING HISTORY, by Hillary Rodham Clinton. (Simon & Schuster, $28.) A memoir by the junior senator from New York and former first lady.	1	3
2	TREASON, by Ann Coulter. (Crown Forum, $26.95.) The lawyer and pundit dissects "liberal treachery from the cold war to the war on terrorism." (+)		1

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Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending June 28, at almost 4,000 bookstores plus wholesalers serving 50,000 other retailers (gift shops, department stores, newsstands, supermarkets), statistically weighted to represent all such outlets nationwide. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (+) indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders.

[tuna_battle_slight_return]

The "come hither" shot in the southeast section of the composite below should be enlarged and sold as a poster! Why settle for just one bestseller?

[onyx]

Thanks for posting verification of Ann being #2.

In today's San Diego U-T book section, Ann's book doesn't appear on the NYT list at all. Thanks to your post, I can see that the U-T is too cheap to be current: Hillary's fiction is listed at #1 with only 2 weeks on the list. U-T is a week in the rears.

[Dec31,1999]

Go Freepers! Buy the book today!

Buy two. One to read and one to lend out or give away.

[185JHP]

CCR BUMP

[GreenHornet]

Buy a copy for Barbara Olson.

An excellent suggestion, unspun. A thoughtful and appropriate tribute to a great lady.

[RonDog]

...the U-T is too cheap to be current...

LOL!

Thanks!

NOBODY is more current than Free Republic...

[Dec31,1999]

Dick Morris book Off with their Heads is up to #12 on AMAZON.com

Gotta get a copy of that, too. I enjoy reading Dick Morris in The New York Post very much, so I know the book must be at least very entertaining.

[sultan88]

"CCR BUMP"

Thank you bump!

[autoresponder]

Is Hillary back from her bookseller appearance in Berlin Germany yet?

[RonDog]

I think maybe we'll do a blow up picture of the cover of Treason for the Arkansas booksigning FReeps of Hillary, just so the koolaid drinkers recognize the book that bumped Hillary down and, by then, probably off the charts. Might be a little promo for Ann too.

Or, you could use the composite image from Drudge, like Endeavor did in Chicago:

www.drudgereport.com/coulter.jpg

[RonDog]

Is Hillary back from her bookseller appearance in Berlin Germany yet?

From www.timesunion.com:

GOP chief blasts Clinton trip
The senator is spending July 4 holiday in Europe promoting her new book

By DEVLIN BARRETT, Associated Press
First published: Friday, July 4, 2003

WASHINGTON -- The state Republican Party chief criticized Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton Thursday for traveling through Europe promoting her new book during the Independence Day holiday, insisting she should be listening to people in Paris, N.Y., instead of Paris, France.

"The listening tour is clearly over, and the self-promoting book tour is in high gear," complained GOP chairman Alexander Treadwell. "It's all about ambition and ego and I think the people of New York state are getting tired of her act."

Treadwell charged the promotional events for "Living History," the best-selling memoir of her time in the White House, are detracting from her work as the junior senator from New York.

He also cited a recent appearance by Clinton, a Democrat, at a Los Angeles hospital, and book-signing events in the Virginia suburbs outside Washington last month.

Congress is in recess for the week of the July Fourth holiday. Clinton has scheduled stops in Germany, France and the Netherlands. She will spend Independence Day in England.

Clinton spokeswoman Karen Dunn said, "New Yorkers are sick of this kind of divisive politics. A good Fourth of July lesson for the Republican party is to stop questioning the patriotism of their fellow Americans."

Given the United States' recent rocky relationship with France over the war in Iraq, Treadwell took special exception to Clinton's appearance in that country.

French first lady Bernadette Chirac said Wednesday that many women hope Clinton will run for the presidency and win, saying such a historic move would encourage women around the globe to engage in politics.

"Maybe (president) of France, but not here," said Treadwell, who said he believed most members of Congress "spend their time back in their districts ... getting in touch with the people they represent."

Paris, N.Y., is a town of roughly 5,000 people in Oneida County.

Copyright 2003 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

[autoresponder]

Hillary was on the Walmart Board of Directors in Arkansas.

That is why Walmart will not carry Ann Coulter's book "TREASON"......

While in Arkansas Hillary was also on the Board of Directors of an Arkansas parking meter manufacturer that also just happened to also make machinegun parts......

Also at that time, Hillary was on the Board of Directors for Kennemetal of Pennsylvania that made and sold to Saddam Hussein of Iraq titanium guided missle nosecones that were banned already by the USA and UN.....

Ah, Hillary, the big anti-gunner and peacenik!

[autoresponder]

Hillary was on the Board of Directors at Walmart.

The Clintons still own Walmart stock.

Go figure.

[sweetliberty]

Yes, I like that one too and mentioned that possibility earlier today on another thread.

[Dec31,1999]

Congress is in recess for the week of the July Fourth holiday. Clinton has scheduled stops in Germany, France and the Netherlands.

Things that make you go hmmm...

[not-alone]

I bought my copy last week, but was in Borders at Boynton Beach Mall today and looked for it. Again Hillary all over, lots of copies everywhere, but I didn't see anyone even pick up a copy and look at it. I asked for Treason. At first pretended he didn't know what I was talking about. He them walked me to the front , where Hillary is everywhere, but no Treason to be found. Mumbling it must be back on the shelves, he looked it up and very sheepishly told me they are sold out and won't have more until the 21st.
I suggested it was too bad they got their orders mixed up. obviously they ordered too many of Hillary book which is just sitting on the shelves and not enough of Ann's. I am learning so much from this book. It scare me how misled I have been. Thank you Ann Coulter.

[middie]

Ann Coulter's book could have been a splendid piece of advocacy for the end of the political spectrum to which she has attached herself and for which she proselytizes. Instead, she chose to play to the lower levels of conflict.

She moves with ease from a specific contested fact or an event to the generalization that sweeps broadly to condemn all within the scope of her ill-founded, and consistently fraudulent, universal truth. Virtually every assertion throughout the book, which I have just finished reading, casts the widest possible net to indict all of those with whom she disagrees as some form of traitor for whom disloyalty to America is a permeating truth.

Her work is neither a scholarly nor a competent examination of contested issues that constitute the playing fields of today's political debates and community concerns. It does nothing to enlighten the reader of the competing perspectives and goals of advocates along the spectrum of American society and how those voices undertake the task of justifying their positions and communicating to convince others. Rather, it is nothing less than a self-indulgent, self-aggrandizing and aimlessly angry screed in bold language that "waves the bloody shirt" intending to inflame the passions of those who already share her predispositions of unrelenting hatred of those having differing views and offering differing solutions. And, by the sound of the loyal Coulter devotees' postings, she has succeeded beyond expectations. Instead of being an enlightened advocate and communicator, she is merely a highly effective cheerleader.

Ms. Coulter is obviously bright, articulate and an observer of the contemporary scene who could, if she chose to do so, add to the inventory of thoughful commentary and become an respectful advocate for her policies, as well as the policy goals of those who agree with her. Yet, for some inexplicable reason, she has opted for a strident, hyperbolical, and contemptuous tone of authorship that obliterates any morsel of meritorious fact and thought that must certainly exist somewhere among the pages.

The real loss caused by her book is that the conservative message, to which I am a firm adherent and that contains a great deal of value to serious listeners, fails to get delivered. The only value of the work is to the author who benefits by the sale to readers anxious to say: "Yeah, go get 'em Ann" or, "You go girl."

[CWOJackson]

Would someone please feed that lady some cheesecake and ice cream.