Three Fox news talkers — Bill O’Reilly, Dana Perino and Kirsten Powers — dominate the latest Conservative Bestseller List, with Powers’ claim that the Left tries to silence the Right in the media blasting onto the list with The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech.
There were three other new entries on the list for May 20-26:
— A new Reagan biography, Reagan: The Life.
— Retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s new Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World.
— The paperback version of Charles Krauthammer’s Things That Matter.
“As Dana Perino takes down both Bill O’Reilly and the media-sensation Clinton Cash, this is one of the biggest shake-ups we’ve seen since we launched the Conservative Bestseller List earlier this year,” said Christopher N. Malagisi, editor of the Conservative Book Club. “What’s even more impressive is how well Fox News’ Democrat commentator Kirsten Powers’ book is doing on a conservative book bestseller list as she rebukes her own political party’s war on free speech,” he added.
The Conservative Book Club provides the list to Secrets weekly.
BESTSELLER LIST:
1 — And the Good News Is…: Lessons and Advice from the Bright Side
By Dana Perino (Twelve)
2 — Bill O’Reilly’s Legends & Lies: The Real West
By Bill O’Reilly (Henry Holt & Co.)
3 — Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich
By Peter Schweizer (Harper Collins)
4 — American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
By Chris Kyle (William Morrow)
5 — Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes, and Politics
By Charles Krauthammer (Crown Forum)
6 — Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
By Stanley McChrystal (Portfolio)
7 — Reagan: The Life
By H.W. Brands (Doubleday)
8 — The Silencing: The Left’s War on Free Speech
By Kirsten Powers (Regnery Publishing)
9 — Killing Patton: The Strange Death of WWII’s Most Audacious General
By Bill O’Reilly (Henry Holt & Co.)
10 — 41: A Portrait of My Father
By George W. Bush (Crown)
METHODOLOGY:
The Conservative Book Club’s weekly conservative bestseller list is independently created and the selection of books for the weekly list is determined by the Conservative Book Club. Data for the lists is derived from Nielsen BookScan data, the provision of which does not imply any endorsement whatsoever by Nielsen of any Conservative Book Club activities or Lists.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected].
