When a bestseller is missing from the bookstore: Why would Eric Metaxas’s wildly popular new book on the American Revolution be unstocked at Barnes & Noble?

American Thinker ^ | 07/17/2026 | Richard Kirk

[SeekAndFind]

A few weeks ago, I reviewed Eric Metaxas’s bestselling book Revolution: The Birth of the Greatest Nation in the History of the World.  Since then, it has remained on the New York Times bestselling list and is currently ranked number two in nonfiction behind Maggie Haberman’s TDS offering, Regime Change.

One would have thought a book published during the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence would be stocked and displayed prominently at Barnes & Noble.  Instead, during his frequent appearances on Steve Bannon’s War Room program, the author testifies that the nation’s leading storefront bookseller doesn’t typically have copies on hand but will instead order them for interested customers.  Meanwhile, Jill Biden’s execrable View from the East Wing, which quickly fell off the Times bestseller list into remainder obscurity, is prominently displayed alongside the other Times bestsellers — except for Revolution.

What gives here?  Anyone with a memory stretching back to the Biden administration and pre-Musk Twitter or even observing listing priorities for current Google searches doesn’t have to speculate much about the answer to that question: corporate censorship.  The question then arises: What is it about Metaxas’s book that Barnes & Noble finds sufficiently objectionable to forgo profits and customer satisfaction?  The likely answer for secular management is the book’s unacceptable emphasis on the Revolution’s Christian roots. 

For Democrats, it would be bad enough that the book exposes the long planted lie that America’s Founders were deists for whom God’s intervention in human affairs ended with the world’s creation, but to substitute the role of biblical Christianity for Enlightenment “Reason” was a bridge too far. Imagine, giving credit to a “Black Robe Regiment” of “No King but Jesus” preachers for stirring up images of freedom

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TOPICS: Books/Literature; History; Society
KEYWORDS: 250; 250th; americanrevolution; blackroberegiment; books; christianity; deism; ericmetaxas; revolution

[Liz]

[fso301]

One would have thought a book published during the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence would be stocked and displayed prominently at Barnes & Noble.

Sometimes, it may get down to a simple answer, for Barnes & Noble, the book wasn't selling well.

Twenty five years ago I was already getting a vibe the Barnes & Noble was becoming a hook up spot for leftists with it's prominent new age and occult section along with the coffee shop.

I haven't bought the book but if I wanted to, I wouldn't know where to go for a traditional book store like barnes & Noble.

I would just buy it off Amazon.

[goodnesswins]

Had not heard of this book...I love Metaxis books...will buy 2...at Amazon

[caver]

I went to my locally owned bookstore looking for Limbaugh’s books too. They didn’t carry his books even though he was selling more than anyone else. Needless to say, my local bookstore never saw my business again.

[Honorary Serb]

Eric Metaxas’s bestselling book needs to be prominently displayed by every bookstore! It is shameful to hide the book because it emphasizes the Christian faith of the Founders.

Some Founding Fathers were even Lutheran!

https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/john-peter-gabriel-muhlenberg-preacher-and-patriot.htm#:~:text=John%20Peter%20Gabriel%20Muhlenberg%20(1746,returning%20to%20Philadelphia%20in%201766.

[The Louiswu]

There are still bookstores?

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yes and they are still wonderful places to shop and to work. If you can put aside your political grudges for a moment, walk into a bookstore, you can still find stuff to read and reading is the best defense against what goes on in this world today.

[Red Badger]

Sold out?...........................