"After Hugo Chavez recommended Noam Chomsky’s Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance at the U.N. Wednesday, the book shot up bestseller lists. What’s more, Chavez is a big fan of Don Quixote, and last year, he handed out a million free copies of the book in Venezuelan squares to celebrate its 400th anniversary" [via World Hum]

"The people of the United States should read this … instead of watching Superman movies," Chavez later told reporters.

As of Thursday afternoon, Hegemony or Survival, originally published in 2003, had jumped into the top 10 of Amazon and Barnes Noble.com.

And what a jump: Amazon said the book had zoomed from No. 20,664 on its bestseller list to No. 4 for the day.

Metropolitan Books, an imprint of Henry Holt, has ordered an additional paperback printing of 25,000 copies." [via LATimes]

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Posted by Chris to splinters: books, authors, literature, travel, politics at 9/24/2006 05:10:39 AM