Voting at the Bookstore

Never mind for the moment the battle to be president. The battle to have written the top book by a politician continues. According to The Independent’s John Rentoul, US presidential hopeful Barack Obama is winning:

Both of Obama’s books are surprisingly good. They are not standard-issue American pap of the kind traditionally turned out by politicians seeking high office -- or, more accurately, by their staffs. I’ve read (enough of) John Kerry’s and Hillary’s efforts to be familiar with the genre. To be fair, Al Gore’s contribution from 1992, Earth in the Balance, was a more substantial piece of work -- what was most notable about it was the extent to which it was forgotten by Gore as Vice President.

Rentoul’s engaging Open House piece is here. We previously reported on this matter here.