Good luck with that, Harvey. I know, nobody asked me.
Courtesy of the New Deal 2.0, by Harvey J. Kaye
Having rendered “A Dozen Titles I Don’t Want to See on the Bestseller List” and then “Another Dozen Titles I Don’t Want to See on the Bestseller List in 2014,” Harvey J. Kaye now proffers thirteen books he would just love to see on the bestseller list in 2014:
1. The American Medical Association, Freedom from Fear: The AMA Guide to Better Health through Socialized Medicine
2. Sarah Palin, Making Do with Less and Feeling Really Good About It: Loving Alaska, Living Alaska, Now and Forever
3. Let’s Go!, Let’s Go Student Travel Guide to the USA! With a New Chapter on Making the Most of America’s High-Speed Rail Links
4. Scott Walker, Kicking Koch: Twelve Steps to Recovery — One for Each Month I Spent in the Wisconsin Governor’s Mansion
5. Rachel Maddow and Ed Schultz, Trust Your Fellow Citizens: Our Journeys from Talk Radio to MSNBC to NBC Prime Time
6. Newt Gingrich, From Foxy Ladies to Foxy Television: Back on the Air with Sean, Bill, Michelle, and Glenn
7. Michelle Bachmann, former Member U.S. House of Representatives, The Real Idiot’s Guide to American History — No, Really, the Real Idiot’s Guide: From Lexington & Concord (NH?) to the Mall of America (MN!)
8. Bill Moyers, The Conversation Renewed: Bill Moyers Journal — The Transcripts of the 2012 and 2013 Seasons
9. John Boehner, Don’t Cry For Me Ohio! My Life as the Once and Future Minority Leader
10. Richard Trumka, We Love You Scotty, Oh Yes We Do… Cheeseheads and the Rebirth of the American Labor Movement
11. Scott Simon et al, Getting Our Act Together: The NPR Survival Guide
12. Barack Obama, Returning to the Classroom: Teaching Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago
13. Russ Feingold, This is What Democracy Looks Like: From the U.S. Senate to the White House
Harvey J. Kaye is the Rosenberg Professor of Democracy and Justice Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and the author of Thomas Paine and the Promise of America. He is currently writing The Four Freedoms and the Promise of America.
