PAT BUCHANAN HAS A NEW BOOK OUT, but I thought The Camp of the Saints had already been written.Instapundit.com
August 21, 2006

Yes, but that was when the today’s mass migrations were in the future.

Pat Buchanan’s new book is now up to #2 on Amazon.com.[State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America]

I expect it to be a “surprise bestseller,” not in the sense that it surprises you and me, but in the sense that the liberal media are always surprised when a book by a conservative does well.

This is Ann Coulter’s list of “Surprise bestsellers” from Slander. I’ve omitted Kevin Michael Grace’s entry from list, since he insists he doesn’t belong there, but it doesn’t invalidate Coulter’s basic point. Here’s her list:

The reluctance of the mainstream publishing houses to publish conservative books stems from two factors: (1) the public seems to like them; and (2) they are often profitable for the publisher. Unable to learn from the second kick of a mule (or the third, fourth, or twentieth), the elite media invariably describe the frequent conservative best-sellers as “surprise bestsellers.” It’s been the same surprise for twenty years. Excluding alternative phraseologies such as “a bigger hit than anticipated” (Dan Quayle’s Standing Firm: A Vice-Presidential Memoir) or “an unexpected success” (The Real Anita Hill), here is a partial list of conservative books that have been described in the mainstream media as “surprise best-sellers” (italics added):

• “Another surprise national bestseller is Senatorial Privilege: The Chappaquiddick Cover-Up… in fact, president Al Regnery says it’s been No. 1 most of the summer.”

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Pat Buchanan’s State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America is #6 on Amazon as I write this, courtesy of a powerful plug from Matt Drudge and an emerging publicity wave. This offers a real chance for the immigration reform movement to crystallize the issue in public consciousness after it was finally resurfaced by the Bush Adminstration’s mad drive for amnesty earlier this year. Many of us at VDARE.COM helped Pat with his manuscript, and are kindly thanked in the Acknowledgements. VDARE.COM is described as “indispensable” and my 1995 book Alien Nation as “seminal” (p. 88.) We are adding Pat’s new blog, in which he will defend his book , to our blogroll. Supporting this book is an imperative patriotic duty.

(No doubt surprising to those unfamiliar with the ways of New York publishers, Harper Collins have chosen this very moment to let Alien Nation go out of print. We will be making it available on VDARE.COM soon).

An illustration of the way Pat can make the Establishment pay attention: Ben Wattenberg has just blogged that Pat is “an old friend” - and even that John O’Sullivan is “a nice fellow” - but that I am a “rather mean-spirited man” and VDARE.COM “near racist”, although we all make the same argments (which Wattenberg ignores as usual). I naturally think this is because I’ve kicked him around badly in our various debates, not hard to do. But of course I’m mean-spirited. Ask him.

UPDATE: Pat now #2 on Amazon!

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