Title: “Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government”

Author: Glenn Beck

Rank: 15

Blurb: “Idiots can’t be identified through voting records, they can be found only by looking for people who hide behind stereotypes, embrace partisanship, and believe that bumper sticker slogans are a substitute for common sense.”

Review: On Beck’s Rockefeller Center rant: “Come on people, it’s right there in front of your faces. All rich people are secretly communist fascists who want to brainwash your children by paying huge sums of money on artwork to indoctrinate them on the evil of money.”

Customers Also Bought: “Saving Freedom: We Can Stop America’s Slide into Socialism” by Jim DeMint

Footnote: Competitors for Best Customer Tag include “keeping america stupid”, “should come with crayons”, and “i weep for mrs beck”.

Arguing with Idiots [Amazon]

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Update: FlyingChainSaw has discovered an earlier draft of the cover…

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Title: “The Prince”

Author: Niccolo Machiavelli

Rank: 3,214

Blurb: “Its essential contribution to modern political thought lies in Machiavelli’s assertion of the then revolutionary idea that theological and moral imperatives have no place in the political arena.”

Review: “this book has imensely inspired my life and moral. i haven’t changed myself for the books sake, but merely incorporated the books ‘principalities’ into my life as i best see fit to encourage a better life. the package came in ample time and was boxed safely”

Customers Also Bought: “The Prince (Cliffs Notes)”, by Stacy Magedanz

Footnote: Stinque Book Chat doesn’t give a damn about your holiday weekend.

The Prince [Amazon]

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Title: “End the Fed”

Author: Ron Paul

Rank: 36

Blurb: “What most people don’t realize is that the Fed — created by the Morgans and Rockefellers at a private club off the coast of Georgia — is actually working against their own personal interests.”

Reviews: “Rarely has a single book not only challenged, but decisively changed my mind.”
–Arlo Guthrie

“The Federal Reserve, which serves private banks, has compromised our economy and is undermining our freedom. It can and must be stopped now.”
–Vince Vaughn

Customers Also Bought: “The Left, The Right and The State,” by Lew Rockwell

Footnote: Wait, Arlo “Screw My Dad” Guthrie and Vince “CBS Schoolbreak Special” Vaughn are Paultards?

End the Fed [Amazon]

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Title: “Grassley: Senator from Iowa”

Author: Eric Woolson

Rank: 3,249,296

Blurb: None.

Review: None. Be the first to write your own!

Footnote: This (presidential campaign?) bio for Grassley, perpetual winner of our Douchebag of the Nearest Available Time Slot and non-whoring friend of C Street, was written in 1995 by the future PR Miracle for Mike Huckabee. However, we can find no evidence that the pages aren’t blank.

Grassley: Senator from Iowa [Amazon]

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Title: “An Intellectual History of Cannibalism”

Author: Catalin Avramescu; translated by Alistair Ian Blyth

Rank: 103,316

Blurb: “The cannibal — perhaps the ultimate symbol of savagery and degradation — has haunted the Western imagination since before the Age of Discovery, when Europeans first encountered genuine cannibals and related horrible stories of shipwrecked travelers eating each other. An Intellectual History of Cannibalism is the first book to systematically examine the role of the cannibal in the arguments of philosophers, from the classical period to modern disputes about such wide-ranging issues as vegetarianism and the right to private property.”

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Title: “Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies”

Author: Michelle Malkin

Rank: 4

Blurb: “In her shocking new book, Malkin digs deep into the records of President Obama’s staff, revealing corrupt dealings, questionable pasts, and abuses of power throughout his administration.”

Review: “The brazen lies spouted daily against the previous administration taught a new generation of conservatives to be bold with the truth and turn the tables on the dream world of Big Brother liberals. Malkin seems to be the current best at this and Culture of Corruption will be a burr under the saddle of Obama’s True Believers for months and hopefully years to come.”

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Title: “Persepolis”

Author: Marjane Satrapi

Rank: 1,472

Blurb: “A memoir of growing up as a girl in revolutionary Iran, Persepolis provides a unique glimpse into a nearly unknown and unreachable way of life.” (Time)

Review: “We tried having the freshmen at our school read this book over the summer, thinking that they might have less resistance to a graphic novel than an onslaught of straight text. We forgot, of course, that they are freshmen and will resist all attempts to read/learn over the summer regardless.”

Customers Also Bought: “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” (Still in the Top 100! Go Team Zombie!)

Footnote: Time for our monthly Book Chat! Are you smarter than a high-school freshman?

Persepolis [Amazon]

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