Title: “The Jefferson Lies: Exposing the Myths You’ve Always Believed About Thomas Jefferson”

Author: David Barton; foreword by Glenn Beck

Rank: 59

Blurb: “America, in so many ways, has forgotten. Its roots, its purpose, its identity — all have become shrouded behind a veil of political correctness bent on twisting the nation’s founding, and its founders, to fit within a misshapen modern world.”

Review: “So many scholars found factual errors with the book that on 8/9/12, the publisher ceased publication and distribution of the book, and is actually recalling it from retailers.”

Footnote: “David is author of numerous best-selling works and a national award-winning historian who brings a fresh perspective to history.”

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Title: “I Am A Pole (And So Can You!)”

Author: Stephen Colbert

Rank: 34

Blurb: “The sad thing is, I like it!” —Maurice Sendak

Reader Review Spectacular!

“This book should not be read to children. There is one page that illustrates a stripper humping a pole with only tassels on her nipples.”

“Then I got to the stripper pole, and the quite graphically drawn cartoon stripper right down to the tassels and heart tattoo on the ankle… I can’t imagine how many kids won’t get to read this book because of that page.”

“I was not prepared to discuss strippers with my 4-year-old daughter. This picture book is not for small children.”

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Title: “Screwed! How Foreign Countries Are Ripping America Off and Plundering Our Economy — and How Our Leaders Help Them Do It”

Authors: Dick Morris and Eileen McGann

Rank: 38

Blurb: “In this eye-opening new book, Morris contends that Condoleezza Rice, secretary of state in George W Bush’s second cabinet, is the only Republican on the national scene with the credentials, credibility, and popularity to lead the Republican Party in 2008. And he outlines how the Democratic Party, fresh from its narrow yet crushing defeat in 2004, is likely to return to its one source of political power in the last several decades — the Clinton family.”

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Title: “The Tyranny of Cliches: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas”

Author: Jonah Goldberg

Rank: 65

Blurb: “With humor and passion, Goldberg dismantles these and many other Trojan Horses that liberals use to cheat in the war of ideas. He shows that the grand Progressive tradition of denying an ideological agenda while pursuing it vigorously under the false-flag of reasonableness is alive and well. And he reveals how this dangerous game may lead us further down the path of self-destruction.”

Review: “I found it cathartic when Goldberg declares, ‘The Marxists who claimed to be ending the masses’ addiction to religion then proceeded to slaughter those same masses at a rate unprecedented in the history of human life.'”

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Title: “The Duckling Gets a Cookie!?”

Author: Mo Willems

Rank: 63

Blurb: “The Pigeon is back (hooray!) and this time the drama centers on an adorable little duckling who gets a cookie just by asking — politely. Just by asking?! Politely reminds the duckling, but the Pigeon is already off on a hilarious rant about all the things he asks for — many of which readers of the earlier Pigeon books will remember — ending with the all-too-familiar refrain, ‘It’s not fair.'”

Review: “The book is low on plot and low on words in general.”

Customers Also Bought: “Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed” by Mo Willems

Footnote: Can we have Medicare for All and hang government torturers by their thumbs? Please?

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Title: “Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics”

Author: Ross Douthat

Rank: 51

Blurb: “Writing for an era dominated by recession, gridlock, and fears of American decline, Douthat exposes the spiritual roots of the nation’s political and economic crises. He argues that America’s problem isn’t too much religion, as a growing chorus of atheists have argued; nor is it an intolerant secularism, as many on the Christian right believe. Rather, it’s bad religion: the slow-motion collapse of traditional faith and the rise of a variety of pseudo-Christianities that stroke our egos, indulge our follies, and encourage our worst impulses.”

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Title: “Fifty Shades of Grey: Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy”

Author: E L James

Rank: 1

Blurb: “When the couple embarks on a daring, passionately physical affair, Ana discovers Christian Grey’s secrets and explores her own dark desires.”

Review: “The sex — it wasn’t hot at all. I wouldn’t even classify it as erotic. For some strange reason I have the opinion that you need to be able to refer to your vagina as something more erotic than ‘down there’ before you can pull off a significant hotness rating.”

Customers Also Bought: “The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands” by Laura Schlessinger

Footnote: John Stossel’s book (#99) was too boring to deal with.

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