Bush's Book Belongs In The True Crime Section

Marianna says:

I always look at bookstores. And I do have to say that in the extremely right-wing, Bush-enamored community where I live, the Barnes & Noble has had (I haven’t looked recently) a fair selection of books on 9/11 — Terror Timeline, several of David Ray Griffin’s books, and I bought a copy of Crossing the Rubicon shortly after it was released, there…and they restocked it. 9/11 for beginners books, but they’ve had them.

Our library system, locally, and state-wide, in Michigan, has all the 9/11 books you could ask for available through their inter-library loan system that taps into public and college libraries– I borrowed a copy of The Road to 9/11 through an inter-library loan. Interesting that my alma mater, a “small [conservative] Christian liberal arts college,” has ALL of David Ray Griffin’s books (and Griffin is a liberal theologian — not their cup of tea — but THOSE books are ok) — to the point he started writing about 9/11 — from there-on, not a one.

There is a dearth of 9/11 books at the Barnes & Nobles and Borders stores in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. I always look…

I was in Hanover, NH, three years ago, and last year. Went up to the Dartmouth Co-op both times and combed their stacks — zero, zip, nada. Lots of Chomsky. I didn’t know what to expect there, given my sense of the college is that it is so …I’d guess you’d call it “bought-in” …but knowing that at a liberal arts college like that, there can be a broad range of opinions expressed and taught by faculty, and a broad (-ish) range of opinions and interests among students, even if the tenor of the college, generally, is on the right-wing side — and also knowing that the the Truth Movement is so active in the region, so there might have been demand… but didn’t find a single book…doubt they were “all sold out…” (a Truth advocate friend who is an alum, told me Dartmouth did have Griffin speaking there earlier this year so maybe they’ve got some of his books, now …).

I have also “moved books around” at our BN store, to either highlight (hah! merchandise) them or get them to “the appropriate place” — I’ve also considered (tho I haven’t moved on this…yet), slipping little bookmark “fliers” into key books, a little guerilla marketing tool I heard of somewhere… I could actually do that at my local libraries, too… couldn’t I…

Marianna says:

Thought I’d go check out my local B&N store tonight to see what actually was in stock at this point. I found: 1 copy (the same dusty old re-order?) of Crossing the Rubicon, in the current events section, which is where I’d found the other books mentioned above. None of the books mentioned Jon’s video; in fact the only other book in the entire store that had anything to do with 9/11 was 102 Minutes, in the US History section…how quickly they forget… A disproportionate and incongruous — for this area — amount of Chomsky. Three copies of Family of Secrets, though. The requisite display of the Bush book at the entrance to the store, with one book missing. I picked up another one, what-the-hey, and sat down for a few minutes pretending to look interested in it, then wandered back to the True Crime section, intending to drop it there… but you know that single book that was missing from the Bush display at the front of the store? Somebody had beaten me to it… there it was, all lined up on a lower shelf, spine facing outward. I’m a little disappointed that I don’t know who put it there…I could use another ally. I put my book on an eye-level shelf, front facing outward.