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Bernies own book of the month club
Bernie Sanders has become a millionaire, and he did it by selling his new book! In blunt fashion Sanders explained his get rich strategy: I wrote a best-selling book. If you write a best-selling book, you can be a millionaire, too. NYTimes.com
During the 2015 primary campaign the pre-millionaire Bernie employed a book buying/selling strategy that never would have gotten him rich but might be worth a glance now as the crowded Democratic primary race heats up.
According to FEC filings, the Sanders campaign bought thousands of dollars of his books. Sanders spent almost $445,000 of his donors campaign funds with Verso Books, the publisher of Outsider in the White House, which was a quick re-working of his earlier Bernie book: Outsider in the House. I mentioned the purchase in a diary: Campaign dollars to donuts back then without really taking aim at it; I dont recall it making any waves in that long campaign.
https://www.greenmountaindaily.com/2019/04/25/bernies-own-book-of-the-month-lub/
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden