NEW YORK (AP) — The campaign book is back on top.
“Game Change,” a sensational account of the 2008 presidential race co-authored by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, was No. 1 on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com on Monday, a day before its official release. Publisher HarperCollins has increased the printing from 75,000 to 135,000.
Elections are now so compulsively covered that reporters’ books about them tend to sell poorly, especially compared to such classics as Theodore White’s “The Making of the President, 1960.” But “Game Change” has been in the headlines for days, thanks to such details as Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada describing Barack Obama as a “light-skinned” African-American “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”