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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe GOP's big bulk book-buying machine is boosting Republicans on the bestseller lists
Rep. Dan Crenshaws memoir and social critique, Fortitude: American Resilience in the Era of Outrage, soared to the top of the bestseller lists when it was published last year. The book helped raise the former Navy SEALs profile and burnished his credentials as a rising star among freshman congressmen.
As it happens, Crenshaw and his publisher, Hachette Book Group, got a little help from the Texas Republicans friends.
The National Republican Congressional Committee, which works to elect GOP candidates to Congress, spent nearly $400,000 on bulk purchases of the book. The organization acquired 25,500 copies through two online booksellers, enough to fuel Fortitudes ascent up the bestseller lists. The NRCC said it gave away copies as incentives to donors, raising $1.5 million in the process.
The NRCC wasnt the only outfit providing a big-bucks boost to conservative authors. Four party-affiliated organizations, including the Republican National Committee, collectively spent more than $1 million during the past election cycle mass-purchasing books written by GOP candidates, elected officials and personalities, according to Federal Election Commission expenditure reports. The purchases helped turn several volumes into bestsellers.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/gop-book-deals/2021/04/15/154f3820-9ca5-11eb-b7a8-014b14aeb9e4_story.html
Not a surprise to many of us.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Let's face it, most magats can't or don't read (or think!).
Walleye
(31,141 posts)littlemissmartypants
(22,853 posts)Luckily, most of the following can't read.
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)Aristus
(66,520 posts)n/t
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)Aristus
(66,520 posts)n/t
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)Archae
(46,371 posts)For the "Dianetics" books.
There still are warehouses full of those books in Florida.
DinahMoeHum
(21,826 posts). . .next to a book they suspect is marketed this way.
Johonny
(20,942 posts)11 Bravo
(23,928 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,361 posts)...is already in the $1.99 bin on multiple online sellers.
(Uday means T---p, Jr.)
kacekwl
(7,025 posts)who bought Jr's book at Wal-Mart for full price.