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Going Rogue Too Dumb for San Fran Bookstores. What Smart Books Made The Cut?

2009-11-24
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From yesterday’s San Francisco Chronicle — “Bay Area not maverick enough to read Palin book“:

It might as well have cooties. Hardly anyone wants to touch the thing, or even get close to it.

The new autobiography by moose hunter and failed vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is harder to find in the Bay Area than a hockey mom. Some bookstores figure it’s one of those grit-your-teeth First Amendment deals that principled booksellers must put up with from time to time.

But many nonchain bookstores won’t handle it.

“Our customers are thinking people,” said Nathan Embretson, a bookseller at Pendragon Books in Oakland. “They’re not into reading drivel.”

Got it, Nathan.

Here’s a selection of some of the non-drively, thinky-type books Mr. Embretson carries at his store, per the Pendragon Books website:

Inside Job: Unmasking the 9-11 Conspiracies (Paperback)

By Jim Marrs

Inside Job is the definitive journalistic account of the hidden role of the Bush Whitehouse in perpetrating the 9/11 attacks. Veteran journalist Jim Marrs weaves into his coverage the kind of relentless undercover research that long ago established him as one of America’s leading conspiracy researchers. Originally written under contract for a large New York publisher, this book passed legal review and received extensive editorial support only to be cancelled suddenly in early 2003 with little explanation by the publisher.

Discovering America as It is (Paperback)

By Valdas Anelauskas

Analauskas is a self-described “white separatist”:

“Only from people of that peculiar tribe can we expect such Talmudic hatred for humanity. There is even a famous saying that wars are the Jews’ harvest.”

The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood (Paperback)

By … Rashid Khalidi.

On the Justice of Roosting Chickens: Reflections on the Consequences of U.S. Imperial Arrogance and Criminality (Paperback)

By … Ward Churchill.

The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems (Hardcover)

Van Jones!

Inner Paths to Outer Space: Journeys to Alien Worlds Through Psychedelics and Other Spiritual Technologies (Paperback)

“Those who regularly navigate the hyperspatial landscape that some have called the ‘tryptamine dimension’ have long suspected that the portals to inner and outer space may be one and the same. This book, a collaboration of the most cutting-edge shaman/neuroscientists working in this field, boldly explores this concept in a stunning tour de force.”

The Framing of Mumia Abu-Jamal (Paperback)
By J. Patrick O’Connor


Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Anti-War Activist (Paperback)
By William Ayers

Ash Wednesday (Paperback)
By Ethan Hawke

Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weathermen (Hardcover)
By Mark Rudd

Cold Fusion: Challenge to U.S. Science Policy (Hardcover)
By Lyndon H. Larouche

J.Lo: The Secret Behind Jennifer Lopez’s Rise to the Top (Paperback)
By National Enquirer, Sarah Gallick

David Steinberg is a New York-based editor for Pajamas Media.

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  • Dabir Dalton

    Steven way back in the dark ages during the mid 1970′s while in the tenth grade I took child care and was asked when seen sitting in the room by the girls coming in after me, a female HS Counselor who9 walked into the room and the female teacher if I was in the wrong place. My response to all of them was to ask this is the child care classroom? and when they all in turn said yes then I informed each and every one of them calmly and to their face that I was in the right place.

    I loved the class. The kids loved me and the teacher ended up appreciating that I was there and came to respect me while several of the girls ended of asking how I was able to get the children coming into the preschool daycare we ran to cooperate with me. At the end of the last qtr. I scored the highest grade on the final exam but didn’t get the award because the girl who did was a senior so it was her last chance. While there are those who would say that wasn’t fair consider this the teacher called me into her office before awards day and very carefully explained her reasons for giving the other girl the reward and I was ok with that. I was satisfied with having out shone all of those taking the class and would have no doubt won the award the following year had I decided not to take the childcare class in favor a history class. because the two conflicted with each other on the schedule and since I couldn’t take both at the same time I chose to take the history class instead.

  • steven deluca

    Donnie H

    I have done the “ask for the women’s and men’s section” bit in book stores for decades. I also ask them if they want to risk ordering two or three “men’s” I will buy one up front and then the others if they don’t sell.

    I have made minor contributions to Farrell’s books and I have been a men’s rights activist since, oh, when my twin sister and I started figuring out how badly society screws boys and men starting with no doors on boys bathrooms in the first grade… 1952 or how boys snapping girls bras got beaten with a wood paddle while girls sexually assaulting boys, kicks to groins, or grabbing same was simply settled with a lecture, missed recess and lots of smirks from adults who witnessed or handled such issues. Then I got drafted at age 20 while my 20 year-old fiance and my 20 year-old twin sister didn’t. I lost friends in the war, they didn’t, … and so on. I ended up with a 100 percent disability while I listen to young women today tell me that in the 60′s their mothers and grand mothers DIDN’T GET TO TAKE SHOP CLASS… truth is, I took home economics in 1964 in a boys class and if girls wanted shop they could take it. SD

  • Dabir Dalton

    Palin can’t even manage her own household and keep it in good order (which is a Biblical requirement for a Deacon) failed at passing on her moral values to her oldest daughter then cuts her losses and runs away from her job as Gov. of Alaska. And this is the wonder girl who is supposed to somehow same the Republican party and America…I hardly think so…

  • DonnieH

    Dear Steven-

    That’s what I did! I love going in to Barnes & Noble and buying Beck, Malkin, Levine, Coulter, or Palin. I don’t read them myself, I usually give them to my buddy’s wife (SAH mom who likes to read). It’s fun (and worth the modest cost) to watch the sales clerk squirm.

    It’s also fun to go into B&N, find a sales clerk, and ask her if she would be so kind as to show you the women’s issues section. While you’re standing in front of it, turn to her and ask if she could now show you the men’s issues section. When she says that they don’t have one because such books are scattered throughout other sections, ask her if she could check on whether a few titles (e.g., Myth of Male Power, The Rantings of a Single Male, Women: Theory and Practice,etc.) are in stock (they won’t be). She’ll offer to special order them for you, at which point politely decline and say you’ll just order them on-line.

  • steven deluca

    As a liberal in remission, living in Mendocino CA and reading the frothing at the mouth reviews of Palin’s book by “out of touch” smarter-than-thou liberals – the knee jerk insults of theirs when Palin’s name is mentioned makes me want to buy her book just to move it from 300K copies [right off the bat] to 300K plus 1 (I know, I should have seen how she was portayed on comedy shows by other libs)

    I don’t consider myself liberal or conservative – I listen to both. It seems to me that there are more conservatives who know what liberals think – and why, than liberals who know what conservatives really think – and why. Most of my liberal friends only know their party line and they are 100 percent sure that what their liberal college profs taught them is “the” truth must be “the” truth.

    Must be nice a nice place to be, never doubting what you were told and pretending that you really gave other views serious thought.

    SD

  • Fred

    From what I have read about San Francisco, I seriously doubt that the cultures of any two nations in the world could be as different from each other as are the cultures of San Francisco and of my home town here in rural Missouri. It’s amazing that we are part of the same nation. And even though we speak the same language I doubt that we two peoples could find anyway to communicate with each other. Talk at each other, yes; communicate with each other, no.

  • jjtaup

    No problem. They don’t carry Savage’s masterpieces either (am I biased or what?)

    People, the evidence mounts that Sarah Palin (and Michael Savage) are the real deals. Rejoice that these authors are hated! Everyone loves a whore.







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