Order Breitbart’s New Book at Amazon
But first: bookmark the following link and use it to go to Amazon from now on:
The link takes you straight to the Amazon home page. But when you go there through this link, anything you buy there will send a percentage my way at no extra cost to you.
If you already have an Amazon bookmark, you can replace it with the above link. Just right-click this link, choose “Copy Link Location.” Then go to your Amazon bookmark, right-click, go to Properties, and replace the current location with the link you just copied. Or, you can just click the link and bookmark it after you get there.
If every reader simply accessed Amazon through this link instead of the one they normally use, my costs for the site would easily be covered. Or, you can just use that neat widget on the sidebar at the right. I know some of you are already doing that. It is noticed and appreciated.
I have decided that, in lieu of annoying monthly fundraisers, I will just remind people about the Amazon Affiliates program on a monthly basis, and/or whenever it is relevant to a post I am writing. This post spans both, because I really want to highlight one thing in particular that I am excited about — my friend Andrew Breitbart’s new book: Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World!
You can take a look at the book through the above link, or buy the book right now by clicking on this image:
If you click the link to the book
But judging people without reading their words has always been a specialty of many on the left (and, at times, some on the “right” as well).
Anyway, I encourage you to pre-order Andrew’s book. It is sure to be a lot of fun.
P.S. Some other things in my shopping cart include:
Comrade J
A pre-order of the new Michael Connelly book The Fifth Witness
And finally, a quirky music selection: this Flying Burrito Brothers Bootleg
Oh, and I am currently halfway through Doctor Dealer: The Rise and Fall of an All-American Boy and His Multimillion-Dollar Cocaine Empire
Now go pre-order Andrew’s book!
Comrade J, which I missed the first time it was out, it was out, really describes how networks like the last spyring works, curiously, Tretyakov died on the day they returned to Russia,
Comment by narciso (b545d5) — 4/1/2011 @ 6:26 am
For those in the Los Angeles area, Breitbart is scheduled to appear at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books next month. The speaker’s schedule isn’t up yet so it’s not clear if he’ll be on a panel but he is listed with authors making an appearance.
Comment by Dana (9f3823) — 4/1/2011 @ 7:17 am
Two things you need to do. go to the book, and for each one star review, ESPECIALLY before the book is released:
1) Click on “NO” to “Was this review helpful?”.
and
2) Click on “Report for Abuse” for posting of review of a book that hasn’t been read. This is a violation of Amazon’s policy.
Enough of those and the negative reviews will get blocked or deleted.
Comment by Steve B (42224f) — 4/1/2011 @ 8:14 am
I am awaiting the arrival today of the first books I ordered through the link to Amazon here. (Including Radical in Chief by Kurtz and Unbroken).
I’ll take the opportunity to plug what I think is a very important book which I saw advertised a number of weeks ago in the margin either here or at PowerLine: Broken Promises: How the AIDS Establishment Has Betrayed the Developing World by Edward C. Green. It is a book whose story addresses the issue of politics manipulating science and public policy.
Dr. Green’s field is applied anthropology, and he documents how officials in Uganda responded to the HIV/AIDS starting with the idea that people needed to be taught and encouraged to change their sexual behavior (Oh no, not that!!). Specifically, they were encouraged to be Abstinent (A) until old enough, then Be faithful (B) to one partner, and use a Condom (C) if unwilling to do one of the first two. It worked. Although this was the internal response in Uganda by Ugandans, when the “ABC” approach was put forth as a model to be used elsewhere such as at the 2004 Global AIDS Conference in Bangkok, it was rejected by the “AIDS Establishment” as a moralistic effort championed by the Bush administration.
Of great interest is the fact that Dr. Green’s personal background is not at all consistent with a “conservative perspective”, in fact he candidly states he was voted in high school as “the student most likely to be killed by a jealous husband”. His story is one of a scientist with the intellectual honesty to recognize the data whether or not it confirmed his personal views, and the ostracism and professional conflict he encountered.
While it is often claimed that Repubs and conservatives are “anti-science” and deny scientific evidence, that is not the reality in this situation. Dr. Green doesn’t argue that the left is more likely to do this in general (in fact he seems to have more confidence in the left), but he has the courage to state the findings in this example no matter how unpopular it makes him. I think it ought to be required reading for anyone who thinks about science, society, and public discourse. (No, I was not paid to do this plug nor do I know Dr. Green other than from following this story through the years, now told in a succinct book form. I do, however, value intellectual integrity and think this man and his story deserve widespread acknowledgement).
Comment by MD in Philly (f0e1bd) — 4/1/2011 @ 8:14 am
I am currently reading my neighbor’s brother’s book, Where Doesn’t It Hurt? which has just recently been released and is available here at Patterico’s Amazon link.
He is a doctor (private practice – internal medicine) and this book for the layman is his take on the infeasibility of Obamacare, the deficient private health insurance system, as well as offering his own prescription to remedy both ailing systems: the Medical Savings Account. It’s a thoughtful work told from first-hand experience and frustration as a private practice doc working within the restrictive confines and often inadequate system of health insurance. He neatly breaks down issues such as medical coding and quality measurements, which can often work against the patient as well as tie the doctor’s hands.
His follow-up to this book will be written more for doctors as well as the legal community involved in health care.
Comment by Dana (9f3823) — 4/1/2011 @ 9:16 am
I don’t think the negative reviews hurt book sales much. I think they help build ‘buzz’. The idea that Breitbart has inspired a large number of radical shills to try to ruin his book’s success fits in very well with his argument for reading his book in the first place.
I am always extremely amused at how far some people will go to try to hurt a conservative book’s success. Some Amazon folks take it extremely seriously. Once, I saw an amazon reviewer in Vine review a Christian fiction book for pre-teens, and was so angry it was Christian that she spoiled the plot line of the book while bashing it for being Christian. Obviously, a person shopping for a Christian book isn’t going to be impressed by a complaint it’s Christian, but they might be a little annoyed to know the climax of the plot. This caused a huge argument in the comments to this review, and then I noticed it caused a large number of people to positively review the book. The book was getting a lot of buzz from the effort to ruin its sales.
Similarly, the kind of person who would buy an Andrew Breitbart book (smart, moderate to conservative, at least somewhat aware of bias) is not going to be influenced away from reading this book by the smears.
Comment by Dustin (c16eca) — 4/1/2011 @ 9:24 am
True, Dustin, but the effort is to marginalize him so he is merely preaching to the choir. I think his goal is much more ambitious: to reach as many intelligent people of good will as possible.
Why else make common cause with someone like Stranahan if he is just interested in ranting to the already converted? Why seek out a front-page spot on HuffPo? Why agree to go on ABC when you can go on Fox?
And you’ll notice that the left reserves its petition drives for those moments when Andrew threatens to reach a wider audience.
I think Andrew shares the contempt many of us have for “the left” — but would also agree with me that he doesn’t mean *all* the left. Just those who use dishonesty in their tactics and analysis. Those who are honest but just mistaken, we can seek to persuade.
That’s what I want to do, and I think it’s what Andrew wants to do as well.
So be careful not to underestimate the detrimental effects of the dishonest attacks. They may not fool the choir to whom we preach — but we also want to reach the people in the back pews whose mind is already on football during our sermon.
We might even want to reach those people more.
Comment by Patterico (619197) — 4/1/2011 @ 12:45 pm
Good point. I guess I’m a little jaded about Americans not yet aware of the problem reading Breitbart’s book out of sheer curiosity.
In that matter, I guess I have to admit the ferocious smear campaign against Breitbart closes many to the prospect of hearing him out. I guess I’m selling Breitbart short.
Comment by Dustin (c16eca) — 4/1/2011 @ 12:51 pm
As of April 9th, there are six reviews of Breitbart’s book on Amazon — all of them are positive. So what the heck are you so paranoid about? Agreed, there will probably be negative reviews coming up — there always are whenever a new book has political undertones/overtones. But how about doing some reporting and fact-checking before accusing “the left” of not supporting your friend. It really speaks to your bias, brother.
“If you click the link to the book you will see that the jerks are already out in force, down-dinging the book with 1-star ratings, even though a) the book isn’t even out yet (I am pre-ordering it), and b) they will never read it even after it comes out. But judging people without reading their words has always been a specialty of many on the left (and, at times, some on the “right” as well).”
Comment by Joey Gold (e67861) — 4/9/2011 @ 8:45 am
Joey, maybe there were shill negative reviews, and then they were removed at some point?
After all, it’s been over a week since that was claimed.
Comment by Dustin (c16eca) — 4/9/2011 @ 8:56 am