March 20, 2005

THE STORY behind Mark Levin's Men in Black : How the Supreme Court is Destroying America:
"Men in Black" was the brainchild of executives at Eagle Publishing Inc., the corporate parent of Regnery Publishing, a 58-year-old conservative house that published "Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry" during the 2004 presidential campaign. In mid-2004, Eagle approached Levin, a former aide to President Ronald Reagan's attorney general, Edwin Meese III. Levin turned the book out in time for release Feb. 7.

"Our audience has been screaming for a book on the courts," said Jeff Carneal, president of Eagle Publishing ..

Carneal said the initial press run for "Men in Black" was 80,000 -- a large number for a nonfiction book -- and that Eagle has ordered 85,000 more copies in response to the demand ..

My copy arrived in the mail from Amazon today. You can order your own copy here. I'll let you know what I think in the coming week. Posted by Greg Ransom