bestselling buy largely unread..
LOL!!!!
I’ve often wondered how many libs have actually read these books they proudly display on their shelves.
I remember the news reports of the first Clinton-Gore campaign worried about the factual errors and outrageous statements Gore penned in "Earth in Balance".
The book advance biz is notorious for laundering bribes and payoffs.
Kudos to the libs that actually spend their own money buying the books, rather than unions, organizations, countries, etc.
On the other hand, liberals go for the coffee table books. The type of books that you prominently display to show how enlightened and educated you are. Such as the Great Paintings of Monet or the Encyclopedia of Wine. These books are in pristine condition and dusted off by the cleaning people weekly. If you dare pick one of these up and attempt to open the cover, you will get a dirty look from the host.
The bookshelves will invariably feature biographies of people like Nelson Mandela, Alger Hiss and Vladmir Lenin. Books claiming how folks like Sacco & Vanzetti and the Rosenbergs were framed and on how 9/11 was a Bush conspiracy. Trendy but unreadable novels that normal people will never get through like "World According to Garp" by John Irving and "Ulysses" by James Joyce. With a whole mess of "new age" and "self-help" type books.
I read Dreams early on in the 2008 primary season, before it was obvious that Obama would win out over Hillary. I can truthfully say that nothing that has happened since has been much of a surprise.