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The U.S. Department of State has bought more than $70,000 worth of books authored by President Obama, sending out copies as Christmas gratuities and stocking “key libraries” around the world with “Dreams from My Father” more than a decade after its release. The U.S. embassy in Egypt, for instance, spent $28,636 in August 2009 for copies of Mr. Obama’s bestselling 1995 memoir. Six weeks earlier, the embassy had placed another order with the same book seller, Kalemat Arabia, for more than $9,000 for copies of the same book, federal purchasing records show. Around the same time, halfway around the world,...

The State Department has spent $70,000 in taxpayer money to buy copies of Barack Obama’s book Dreams from My Father. One embassy in Indonesia spent more than $3,800 buying copies of Obama’s other book The Audacity of Hope. Again, all with taxpayer money — all while Obama profits from the purchases. But hey, it most be common place to buy books written by presidents to hand out as gifts and put in libraries, right? Nope. A search by the Washington Times of the federal database found no examples of the State Department purchasing books by President Clinton or President Bush....

America's number one talk radio host Rush Limbaugh, whose 1993 book "See, I Told You So" holds the record for the best selling nonfiction book in publishing history, is challenging claims by Simon & Schuster that Hillary Clinton's book "Living History" is now the fastest selling nonfiction work ever. "My book printed 2 million original copies, [which was] the first time in nonfiction it had ever been done - it has not been done since," Limbaugh told his listeners on Wednesday. "And those 2 million books sold in eight weeks." He noted that the first printing run for Mrs. Clinton's...

I just checked the Amazon site about the stats for Hillary's Living History book and found some incredible stats that just don't compute. Right now her book is rated #3 (really not that great for a book purported to be breaking all sales records) on Amazon but when one looks at the INDIVIDUAL STATS for the states, we see a whole other story. My suspicions were aroused when I went to the Amazon.Com PAGE for Living History and saw that Amazon was "boasting" about how her book was rated #13 in Virginia. Huh? Why would they even "boast" about that...