Bush-Bashing to Go

By Staff, PW NewsLine -- Publishers Weekly, 12/7/2004

With the tale of the Ohio recount (possibly) bubbling to the surface, the typically boat-rocking Melville House (Who Killed Daniel Pearl?) is putting its own oar to the water with an instant collaboration called What We Do Now. Howard Dean, Greg Palast, and Donna Brazile all talk about voting issues, the general and the specific, and Lewis Lapham and Nicholas Kristof also contribute essays that help form "a counterattack on the right," according to Melville founder Dennis Loy Johnson (though a release does flirt with the linguistically disturbing with the term "post-11/2 world.)" The book is due out the end of this week.

Of course there's already a track record for the subgenre of quickie anti-Bush books; according to Nielsen BookScan, Random House's The Bush Survival Guide has sold nearly 14,000 in the three weeks it's been out.