Ethics

My Power to Sell Books

By Ed Brayton

Ever since I had Jeff Sharlet on my radio show, his book, The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, has taken off. More than a year after it was originally published, it's now the #9 most popular book on Amazon. Of course, after being on my show he's also been on Rachel Maddow's show 5 or 6 times to talk about the subject of his book. Between Rachel's show and my show, we've helped Jeff sell thousands and thousands of books (by the same reasoning that Adam Morrison tells people that between him and Kobe Bryant, they score 30 points a game).

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on July 22, 2009 (boomark / email).