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JUST RELEASED: Unholy Alliance : Radical Islam and the American Left by David Horowitz.

In stores next week: How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) by Ann Coulter -- already #19 at Amazon.

And this looks fun: The Know-It-All : One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World by Esquire editor A. J. Jacobs:

Imagine, the original Berserkers were "savage Norse soldiers" of the Middle Ages who went into battle stark naked! .. Intrigued? Well, either hunker down with your own Encyclopædia Britannica, or buy Esquire editor Jacobs's memoir of the year he spent reading all 32 volumes of the 2002 edition — that's 33,000 pages with some 44 million words .. Apart from the sheer pleasure of scaling a major intellectual mountain, Jacobs figured reading the encyclopedia from beginning to end would fill some gaps in his formal education and greatly increase his "quirkiness factor." .. As his wife shunned him and cocktail party guests edged away, Jacobs started testing his knowledge ..

But isn't this odd. Simon & Schuster's Michael Korda has written a biography of Ulysses S. Grant. Posted by Greg Ransom | TrackBack