Kerry Ebay Best Seller - The New Soldier. Current bid $179.51

Kerry Book ebay ^ | March 28, 2004 | John Kerry

[BJungNan]

John Kerry has become a surprise ebay "best seller" with copies of his 1971 book The New Soldier.

The book, which features pictures of Kerry in his Vietnam war protest days and has a controversial front cover that mocks the WWII raising of the flag at Iwo Jima, has sold for as high as $216.00 in recent ebay auctions.. Current bid price in an auction running now is nearly $180.00.

Check your book $helves!

[COEXERJ145]

The first auction smells of a setup. The accounts that were bidding were new, with little or no respect rating. When I used to bid on eBay, people would use second accounts or have friends or family jack up bids in order to get more money. If the friend/family won the bid, you'd see the same item re-listed within a few weeks.

Someone thinks they're an being an Internet bad a** by making Kerry look good on eBay. About as cheap as using a BOT to pad online poll results.

[bolobaby]

Oh drat... I used my copy as toilet paper a long time ago!

[js1138]

This is actually a very low price for this book.

[Andy from Beaverton]

Don't forget about Kerry's first wife's book:

You Are Not Alone: Words of Experience and Hope for the Journey Through Depression
by Julia Thorne (Author)

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List Price:		$12.95
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213 used & new from $0.40

Edition: Paperback

[weegee]

This is nothing new. You can also check the used books from dealers across the county at www.bookfinder.com. This book HAS gone up to between $120-350 a copy (sometimes dependent on whether it is a softcover or hardcover edition).

I wonder how much effort John Kerry spent buying back copies of this book.

Someone on ebay had a copy that they had him sign at the Iowa caucus and was filmed on Fox News signing. I don't know whether Kerry was aware of what he was signing. The book would have been worth even more if the person had gotten Kerry to date the autograph.

His signing of the book could be used as a way to show that John Kerry still stands by this work.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

I bet the bidding on most copies of this book is between Karl Rove, the Kerry campaign and Drudge... ;-)

[ozaukeemom]

Interesting EBay ID on that first one.

[Socratic]

"Someone thinks they're an being an Internet bad a** by making Kerry look good on eBay."

I'd say it was desperate libs trying to hide the evidence!

[PLK]

Someone thinks they're an being an Internet bad a** by making Kerry look good on eBay. About as cheap as using a BOT to pad online poll results

I don't see how a picture depicting Kerry "mocking" the raising of the flag on Iwo Jima could EVER be considered making him "look good."

Show it to the veterans of WWII and see what they think of Kerry then.

[Captainpaintball]

You are right. They are buying the copies, and destroying them, just like the FBI files they stole last week.

[ntnychik]

According to Gerald Nicosia, in "Home to War," the collection of essays in "The New Soldier" was the work of John Kerry's brother-in-law:

p. 155 "John Kerry's brother-in-law David Thorne and his friend George Butler had documented (with tape recorder and camera respectively) the entire Dewey Canyon III operation as Thorne's senior project at the Columbia School of Journalism. Because veterans were 'hot' just then, Collier offered them a book contract--but only provided John Kerry's name was on the book jacket--and the book, called The New Soldier, was rushed into print within a few months."

[BJungNan]

Interesting EBay ID on that first one.

Yes, it is. I had not noticed that. Should we write to him?

[ozaukeemom]

Look at the seller's ID of the 2nd one too.