Overnight Sensation After Just 36 Years
Obama continues to make bestsellers. In the latest incident, he did so simply by accepting a book as a gift.
As reported in the Guardian, during the Summit of the Americas, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez presented Obama with a copy of Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano, a book that “contends that Latin America has been abused as industrialised nations plundered its natural resources, ranging from gold and silver to cocoa and cotton” and a “classic work in left-wing circles.”
Not only did the English edition rise to #2 in the US Amazon sales rankings, the Spanish edition rose to #288.
Libraries are showing reserve lists.
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