Obama books move higher
Barack Obama is the hottest name in publishing. On the weekend after he became the country's first black president-elect, The Audacity of Hope and Dreams from My Father, ranked Nos. 1 and 2, respectively, on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com, according to the Associated Press.
Both hardcover and paperback editions of Audacity of Hope were out of stock Sunday on Amazon. Sales are up even in Arizona, home state of his opponent, Sen. John McCain.
Demand also has surged for Change We Can Believe In, a collection of Obama's speeches and policy proposals that had been selling modestly; for Barack Obama in His Own Words and for such works about him as Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope, a children's book by Nikki Grimes, and Robert Kuttner's Obama's Challenge, a call for a sweeping, progressive economic agenda.
In other campaign-related book news, Politico reported that Richard Wolffe, who covered the presidential election for Newsweek, will write a book called Renegade: The Education of Barack Obama for the Crown imprint of Random House. The book is scheduled to come out in June 2009, and will include material from Wolffe's campaign reporting and interviews with Obama and members of his inner circle
