Thanks to everyone who has bought Glenn Greenwald’s book, A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency, which has now climbed to #12 on the Amazon Best Seller List. It’s an amazing accomplishment — normally a publishing company would have to launch a very expensive promotional campaign and have an author on cable TV wall-to-wall to have that kind of sales.
If you haven’t bought the book, please do. We’ve been watching it climb up the charts since its release yesterday when it was at #137. It would be great if we could nudge it up there even more. If you’re tired of hearing the same old useless, bloviating talking heads on cable TV, we need to support people like Glenn and give them the credibility they need to get a foothold in that world. Book sales is something even Tweety understands.
Thanks to everyone who has posted about it:
Ornery Bastard
Tom Tomorrow
Cliff Schecter
The Agonist
Taylor Marsh
Michael Froomkin
You can buy the book here.
Update: YOU ROCK!! Glenn Hits #1 in nonfiction.
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dakine01 @ 1
Aargh!!!
Bought six: one for me, one for each kid and one for the boss. We may break the top ten even as we speak…er, type!
Tweety served Coultergiest some much deserved crow!!! Rock On Glenn!!!
Thanks to technorati, I know at least 6 people were exposed to Janes message.
http://ornerybastard.blogspot……s-man.html
707!
Alfred Kelgarries @ 4
Hey AK, have you read this about Cheney and the Aluminum Tube fiasco?
http://www.boomantribune.com/s…..194838/993
CTuttle @ 7
I had heard of it, but this is amazing detail! Grist for my mill! Thank you! (Is the dam cracking? will it all go down at once…?)
I ordered the book. But should it be instead, “An Evil versus Good Mentality”?
Alfred Kelgarries @ 8
It certainly seems like those (fire)Walls are a crumbling down!!! *g*
CTuttle @ 7
quote:
“Funny thing…did you know that the next day Nicoli Pollari met with Deputy National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley? Yeah, it’s true. I know it is not normal for the head of a foreign intelligence agency to meet with a counterpart above his grade, but it happened and it was confirmed by our own government. Those aluminum tubes happened to be used for 81-mm rocket artillery shells in Italy’s Medusa air-to-ground missile defense system. Pollari didn’t bother to mention that. Or…if he did, they don’t want to discuss it.”
I’m stunned
Bustednuckles @ 6
Added it, thanks!
Wow, Glenn’s book is beating out God and Princess Diana…
Update: YOU ROCK!! Glenn Hits #1.
Ahead of Christopher Hitchens. Double good.
CTuttle @ 10
then what?
CTuttle @ 10
i hope it happens in time to prevent us from moving further down the path of confrontation with iran.
Jane, slight edit needed on your update:
YOU, Jane, rock! We are but pebbles joyously building the beachhead for Democracy with you here at the Lake.
Elizabeth Edwards rocks, too, a righteous smackdown of Ann Coulter, just watched. Seeing the twitchy features of Acid Ann finally settle into a be-yotchy sneer, I’ve concluded she is the political version of Andrew Dice Clay…and just gettin’ more and more rancid.
jayt @ 14
Fear the power of The Lake(tm)! When the Lake-signal lights up the sky (TRex with a Taser), rethugs and evil-doers flee and hide. (cue 60’s batman theme…)
Buy lots and give them to everyone you know. fyi amazon counts multiple orders as just one for purposes of their statistics.
Please give amazon reviewers good recs, make your -own- review and remember to give it 5 stars.
And while you’re at it, give good recs to his first book.
[Marcy and Murray books too while you’re there]
edit—a snarky friend says, “and just ask people to donate blood while you’re at it”
Elliott @ 11
Doesn’t any congresscritter want to really broach the ’stovepipe’ of Curveball and Ahmad Chalabi’s ‘intel’ into the OVP Apparatchik?
You know I really like the idea of President Elizabeth and Vice President John Edwards.
Thanks Jane.
punaise?
;)
Eureka Springs @ 21
works for me
Ordered one from Amazon but will order the next one from the only local bookstore in our small town. Let’s break the top five!
Woo-hoo! Eat it, Tweety!
Bought mine! Now I get to read it!
Made my phone calls today also and got two friends to join in. Feels good to be able to DO something.
Bustednuckles @ 22
just tweakin’ ya re your NC-17 rating:~)
Alfred Kelgarries @ 18
Sunlight and Truth are the necessary disinfectants for scouring the scum from our House!!!
weekend reading?
punaise @ 29
I got one just like that today.
CTuttle @ 20
No because we need Chalabi to take over from Sadam! That was supposed to have happend four years ago, but Bremer (probably under orders from Cheney) hashed it up. Chalabi has been lurking as head of the utterly vital branch of the Iraqi “government” who decides whether an ex-Baathist (ie anyone with a useful skill) can be “De-Baathified” (I’m not kidding, that’s the official designation for the process) or not. Needless to say, he is accumulating vast amounts of cash and still only letting a trickle through, one of the main reasons why the Iraqi government ministries are less than useless.
Just you watch: when we DO pull out, it will be in such a way as to allow Chalabi to become the next Saddam. You heard it here first.
KO-In Too Veep!!! ;-)
I also ordered a book by someone named Marcy Wheeler.
Chris Matthews “I know we will be selling a lot of copies of ‘Godless’. I can’t get to Confession, fast enough.”
That is a Catholic joke. It means that he has sinned and has to confess and pay a penance of 15 Hail Mary’s and promise never to do it again.
Wow, wow, wow!!! Congratulations Glenn Greenwald!!
Alfred Kelgarries @ 31
That would not surprise me one Iota! The final Cheney accomplishment! After all is said and done, Poof, he got his way again!!! 8-)
CTuttle @ 20
I’m wondering if the Italian secret service guy who was killed by American troops while rescuing a leftist reporter was involved in any way in this thing and might have been intentionally hit.
There’s that tin foil hat area my ex speaks of.
Hiya Punaise and busted and Jane.
ok, ok. I ordered my copy!
Punaise, and, thanks for matching me with the Blue America $5 contributions last eve! (And, I thought you bought your book at least yesterday, if not before?)
I left my credit card by the computer, so I didn’t have it today, as I discovered when I went through the check out line at the grocery store. Oh. dear.
GREENWALD!!
NUMBER ONE!!!
james @ 36
it sure seems like we’re capable of anything and everything
Is Glenn’s book available at Barnes and Noble? I am leaving for vacation on Friday and won’t receive it in time so I wanted to hit the bricks and mortar instead.
Hi VG!
TRex @ 38
Ain’t it Kewl!!!
hiya VG. bought the book yesterday.
CTuttle @ 7
Stovepiping!
Back during the Reagan years it was alledged that Cheney and Rumsfield engaged in stove piping. As I recall it was a CIA operation that che and rum tried to use as “justification” for some military option. After, President Reagan was told of the nature of the CIA operation, chen and rum did not get their way. Besides they where probably preoccupied with Iran/Contra?
Seems a “pattern of conduct” can be established here. “Stove-piping” intelligence is the pattern. I call it “treason” of the most egregious kind. The last paragraph of Joe Wilson’s OP-ED concerning a Democracy’s decision to go to war is burned in my mind forever. Applying simple logic that If there be no greater sacrifice than to lay down one’s life in defense of freedom so others may live; then it stands that the intentional manipulation of “reason” and the ‘systematic instillation; of “falsehoods,” triggering unwarranted death, must constitute a high crime requiring impeachment. Anything less condones the murder and slaughter!
OT: Alfred, I just tried to post a comment at your blog, but got the message that my password is invalid and have no idea why or what to do about it?
I love the musical accompaniment to Polonium 3. Very much looking forward to Poloniums 1 and 2? Have the musicians arrived?
Thanks.
WE’RE NUMBER ONE!!! [nonfiction]
Greenwald ideas: buy a copy and send to your library.
Statistics R us: buy one copy every day and send to yet another friend.
Missed Jane’s Sunday blog thingie. In Re Libby: I encountered him several times at the trial. Is he someone we should hate? What does it mean to hate someone?
Elliott @ 15
Mere Mortals Mightily Mix Mortar!
why?
better link to non fiction rankings
Still looks like #12 overall. It will be hard to beat out the two Harry Potter books!!! ;)
TRex @ 38
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Wonderful feeling
Wonderful day
Mr. Bluebird on my shoulder, Is it the truth?
It’s actual
Everything is satisfactual…..
Zippahdy do dah
Zippahdy ayyy
My oh myah what a wonderful day
Plenty of sunshine headin’ my way
Zippicy do dah
Zippahdy yay.
egregious @ 45
wow
you have a remarkable heart, egregious
Valley Girl @ 47
Glenn’s demo definitely skews older…
egregious @ 45
Living on a finite fixed income, I eagerly await my ‘bricks and mortar’ library to obtain a copy!!! *g*
greenwarrior @ 44
okay, I think I should post this on the front page. You need to use your google account to make comments. It even throws ME out when I try to make a comment until I enter my google credentials. IIRC, you DID leave a comment before, so you got in once. And if LOTS of people can’t leave comments, then that’s why the comment count was so low…..dammit. I HAVE to get this program compiled and FTP’d first, so earliest is late tonight but prob tomorrow morning. I’ll put detailed commenting instructions in the blog and post here as well.
Thanks for the interest and patience. And actually, I just engaged the Ft Worth Symphony to score and play the piece for a recording to be released with my new book “The Circumcision Of The Dick”. (Remember, my mom was a classical pianist who taught music theory and played jazz as well. I was about 18 before I realized other people DIDN’T eat supper surrounded by Grieg or Mozart. Some of it obviously rubbed off.)
larue @ 46
works for me
Boston1775 @ 48
You were committed to this, congratulations!
Prairie Sunshine @ 17
I just watched too, was trying not to, but, ya gotta know the enemy.
I got nothing that hasn’t been said politely or not so politely.
What a horrible and wretched human.
An avalanche of calls and emails should be directed at both Good Morning America AND Chris Matthews/Hardball stating ‘we won’t watch’ and we WILL contact sponsors of those shows and boycott them until they agree NOT to show her again. Ever.
Force meets force. Money rules, use it to our gain.
Harumph.
My god what an ugly souled human being.
Twisted- I was scratching my head on that one for a while– Glenn’s demographic def. skews older!
CTuttle—
I trust you have called yr library and asked them to order a copy?
larue @ 55
Whew, I’ll second that notion, larue!!!
If you can’t buy, contact your local library and ask that they put Glenn on their “requested purchase” list.
If you can buy, ask it anyway….the more buzz the better.
Valley Girl @ 56
Don’t think all those teens are going to be knocking Harry out of the way to get to Glenn. They should, but they won’t. Kind of like they should eat broccoli, but they like donuts better! Mmmmm, donuts…
Ha! My “vote” counted.
Bob in HI
Twisted Martini @ 40
It’s on their website. Maybe you can find the store close to where you are going and have it shipped there.
egregious @ 19
I ordered Murray Waas’ book along with Greenwald’s — just enough to get free shipping! I already have Marcy’s book.
Bob in HI
AK, you have a blog now? We were just discussing it a couple of nights ago.
Prairie Sunshine @ 17
Drive by …
Reminds me of this speech
egregious @ 57
Roger That!
Alfred Kelgarries @ 31
We will never pull out unless our armed forces are slaughtered as a result of doing Iran . . . . .
But Chalabi WILL rise to our puppet strings . . that I concur with. He’s lasted too long . . . . but that’s not why he will rise . .
1) USA has spent too much money on him already. ROI is DUE, folks . . .
2) There’s a LOT of people who have backed him, and who would suffer GREAT embarassment if it came out they DID support him and he WASN’T a leader.
3) Skeletons in the closet with Chalabi abound, more so than with OTHER bit players who have auditioned for the part.
He’s good, he’s got dirt to reveal on everyone in the MIC, big biz, Pentago, CIA, agency’s, politicians . . . . . . he can con the neocon’s. And they ain’t gone yet, either. And, he’s got dirt on every middle east leader, country and player too. Unless he ingests polonium unexpectedly, I say, AK JOHNSON IS RIGHT!
Bob Schacht @ 61
We. do. actually. count…
We. do. actually. count..
we ride bikes
and call our Congressmen
and find out about upcoming bills
We matter
we matter,
we matter…
I love you, FDL
Bob Schacht @ 65
I like to look at the section showing what other books were purchased when buying Glenwald’s book, it’s an impressive array.
Well not only did I buy it but I finally bought Marcie’s as well. Who knows when I have a chance to read them but…
Frank33 @ 33
I hope none of them think that “Mary” in this case refers to Matalin.
Bob in HI
Here’s a link to Mrs. Edwards appearance
call to Coulter
Oops! KO smacking down BillO for being an idiot. Not that it’s that difficult as he just showed a 16 year old making BillO out to be a liar…
Alfred Kelgarries @ 54
707 on your new book!
larue @ 57
I wrote Chris. And I dont plan to watch him again. He did it for fun…at whose expense?
It made me sick and I have a strong stomach.
Loo Hoo. @ 64
I actually do, for my sines (mathematicians don’t sin, they sine…). Here is Ravings Of A Rational Mind. The title is from a throwaway line in one of Michael Kurland’s Moriarity books, which I have unabashedly stolen. I am contemplating a second, companion blog called Persistence Of Vision to hold postings like those I do here at FDL (the short ones, not the war and piece ones.):) We’ll see on that too.
james @ 36
Huh. Pat Tillman might have been ‘hit’ for a lot less . . . . don’t need tin foil to block THAT shit . . . .
egregious @ 46
Hate is bad for the soul. But anger is a wonderful motivator, as long as it is channeled constructively. Better even than Powdermilk Biscuits!
Bob in HI
O’rally getting smacked down by a high schooler. Ha, ha!!!! First W, then Billo!! The future looks bright!!!
About an hour ago I ordered the Greenwald book and Gore’s new book too. The record junkie in me couldn’t get away from the site without ordering CDs by John Doe and Richard Thompson too.
Alfred Kelgarries @ 76
Easy, Big Boy! Itty-bitty steps before trying marathon-like strides!!!
Bob Schacht @ 62
You can’t BUY that kinda quality snark on the street corners!!!!!
*G*
Twisted Martini @ 52
The non-fiction and fiction lists will merge when it becomes apparent that Cheney is Voldemort. Unfortunately, this means that Cheney’s soul has been split into six pieces, and every one of them must be vanquished. KO did a breakdown on it on his show last night.
Bob in HI
This is a nice Amazon indicator-
Hot New Releases
The bestselling new & future releases on Amazon.com. Updated hourly.
Greenwald is #10 there. (still lagging behind Harry Potter, of course)
Is there a new Richard Thompson? A Heart Needs a Home
Silver to Pat Robertson for calling for assassination of Chavez of Venzuela again.
WPITW is the Coultergeist for calling Obama a terrorist.
I ordered another copy. I simply can’t help myself — this is too much fun, and it’s good for my country as well!
On another topic, Bill Richardson is moving up in Iowa, says a poll he commissioned:
Crap
A Heart Needs a Home
snowbird42 @ 76
I watched Hardball Sunday night and I just couldn’t sit thru it all . . .
I’ve already sent a few scathing emails at Hardball, ABC for Good Morning America . . . now I’m lookin for the sponsors and if I find them, I’ll post a list . . . with contacts . . . . might take a few days for me but I’ll try . . .
What wretched humans they all are.
Alfred Kelgarries @ 54
ok, i figured out what happened. (she said, hiding her head in shame and speaking in a low whisper) i never replied to the google email for verifying my email address. i’ve done it now (she said, speaking again in a low whisper)
egregious @ 45
egregious I like your thoughts about hatred. So true!
We bought ours last night Jane.
gbear @ 81
What a gift he’s been thru the years, ya think?
I was SUCH a huge Sandy Denny fan and of Fairport . . . Richard T has gone on and beyond ANYTHING I ever would have thought in his songs, writings, topics, and such . . . he’s hell to play to though, SO many specialized tunings to get the sound he does get . . . . but if ya follow the voice and the melody, it’s MUCH easier . . .*G*
larue @ 95
What drives me nuts is how few Brits know anything about him.
larue @ 69
Before you go berzerk on Chalabi, do you remember what the record is on Heads of State installed during an Occupation? When the occupying force finally leaves, the incumbent is not the most risk-free position! Do you remember the word “quisling“? History, and the citizens of the country, have not been kind to them.
Of course, one reason they want to install Chalabi is that he can be counted on to ask us to stay. Which of course is what Cheney wants.
Bob in HI
greenwarrior @ 91
Love this hush-huhsh spook speak . . . reminds me of Tommy And Dickie in Trenchcoats under the streetlamp:
“I’ve Got The Yo-Yo.”
“I’ve Got The String.”
Bob Schacht @ 83
Bob, for the love of what’s left of my sanity, please tell me you’re kidding….
KO just said Ghandi was in South Africa! Paris has him dizzy.
john in sacramento @ 66
Reminds me of this speech
“Ripple” by the Grateful Dead
Frank33 @ 101
First Richard, now the Dead. YES, go FDL! There is a new John Prine and Mac Wiseman if anyone is interested. John & Mac
Bob Schacht @ 97
[znip]
I think Chalabi has his own plans AND has been getting a lot of what he wanted so as it is.
raven @ 98
I can’t see KO from here, but what is he saying about Ghandi? He did spend 20 years in Durban, South Africa, working as a lawyer. That’s where he first started fighting discrimination. Um, here’s a bio.
FYI, new thread
larue @ 98
that’s funny
raven @ 96
REALLY?!?!?!?
I’ve met many a Brit Picker (ok, a few each fest over the years) at festivals here in CA, even in the past 6 years when I started going a lot again, and they all revere RT . . along with MANY many others all over the Isles . . . Pogues, Christy Moore, Paddy Keenan, and more . . .
What a shock to learn RT is not revered in England????? Wowser . . . .
Aside: I met this kat at my fav fest (www.strawberrymusic.com) in a blue peacoat, bluejeans, black turtleneck sweater, black british racing cap (forgot what they are called) at a fest in ‘04 I think. Camp jams abound, and we found ourselves with mutual friends in a camp . . . he was a true artist, I forget his name . . . lived his life with his guitar (mid 50’s at the time) and made his way on the road one gig and one night and one pub at a time for the most part . . .
He knew TONS of songs from everyone from the ’30’s to modern day . . . RT among them . . but what kilt me was when he ripped out Me And My Uncle, and I didn’t know his words!!!
I know the Dead’s version, he was singing the original as written by John Phillips of Mama’s N Papa’s fame . . . I NEVER KNEW John Phillip’s had written that song!! Blew me away, I shared the Bushmill’s with him immediately. *G*
I ordered my copy just now. Ordering it was a foregone conclusion, after reading his first book!
Andy
Frank33 @ 101
I LOVE that song!!! One of my favorite of all time.
I love Richard Thompson too. Didja know he’s a devout Muslim?
raven @ 102
love John Prine too! Here’s one he presciently wrote many years ago for the bush gang:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1qE2vJdDw4
Bob Schacht @ 97
Sir Yes Sir to all you wrote, but, hoss, yer assumin we are LEAVENING at some point. We ain’t. Not unless the masses revolt in our streets, which, they won’t.
We stay, forever, and Chalabi is First Anointed . . .
You got the ball!!
Alfred Kelgarries @ 99
Not to worry, there’s ONE Wraith To Bind Them!
Elliott @ 106
Try the veal, tip the waitress, yadda yadda but thanks for the prop . . *G*
Late to the thread here, but just had to say…Woo-hoo, #1! Waiting eagerly for my copy. The book club on Sunday was amazing, thanks Glenn and FDL.
Just ordered 3 copies. Great use of the blog!
On a related topic, I just got back from the rally and lobbying day in D.C. to restore habeas corpus recommended in a post by Siun a few days ago. Thanks for that suggestion too. There were several thousand people there. I went to Kirsten Gillibrand’s office and was glad to hear she’s calling for hearings on the details of the Iraq oil law, how it has a page or two on distribution of profits to various regions in Iraq but has maybe 80 pages on distribution of guaranteed profits to foreign companies. And John Hall is working hard to prevent aggression against Iran.
raven @ 98
uh, KO is correct. 21 years.
I’m on a fixed–as in castrated–income.
I requested the local library to order it…
when they get it, i’ll be in line…
.
LS @ 34
Just sayin’, but Glenn was at #156 yesterday when Our Jane of the Lake lit the signal fires.
Nice work Jane and all.
Balrog @ 118
And to top that off, Bridge of Sighs came on XM as I posted it.
That is good News
I just received my 2 today 1 to read and then pass on and the other to pass on to friends. Kind of like a note in a bottle.
jo6pac
Americablog posted about it and enouraged readers to buy it today.
I bit and bought it yesterday online.
I hope it is good. So many books out and about on this and related subjects.
If books were suicide bombs, we’e have the troops back home, running Wassington til we could hold elections democratically.