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  • The Idiot's Bible

    04/26/2009 7:01:24 PM PDT · by Steelfish · 8 replies · 907+ views
    Wall St. Journal ^ | April 26, 2009
    APRIL 26, 2009 The Idiot's Bible By MARY ANASTASIA O'GRADY Just days after Hugo Chávez gave President Barack Obama a copy of "Open Veins of Latin America" in Trinidad last week, the English-language version of the book shot to the No. 2 slot on Amazon.com. Americans seemed to be curious about Mr. Chávez's reading tastes. But in Latin America, "Open Veins" is a well-known rant by Uruguayan Marxist Eduardo Galeano. And it also has another distinction that Mr. Chávez may be less inclined to publicize: It is widely regarded in free-market circles as "the idiot's bible." The book was tagged...