David Plouffe, the campaign manager who gets a lot of the credit for putting Barack Obama in the White House, is on a victory lap book tour for “The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama’s…

Entertainment Weekly’s EW.com has an interesting item today. The upshot is that a book publisher originally was to print a quotation from President Barack Obama on a book jacket, but then thought better of it. After all, the president’s comment wasn’t meant…

Not every president needs a brother in the spotlight. Billy Carter and Roger Clinton, known for their drinking habits, among other things, didn’t help their brothers when they made the news.

But Barack Obama’s brother-in-law seems like an asset. He’s working on a book…

American publishers have issued a press release praising President Obama’s directions on providing public records of government activities. Here’s the release:   

Washington, DC, January 23, 2009— The Association of American Publishers (AAP) applauded actions taken by President Barack Obama on his…

Penguin Books will publish Barack Obama’s inauguration speech in a book due out Feb. 4.

The small, blue linen hardcover, “The Inaugural Address, 2009,” will cost $12. The book will also include other famous speeches and essays:  Abraham Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address, Second Inaugural Address,…

How ironic that the two most-emailed items from Sunday’s New York Times are both about literature - and that they give almost completely opposite impressions of the current value of great books.

Stanley Fish writes that tenured humanities professors are in…

A good number of St. Louis families have high school or middle school students are planning trips to Washington for the presidential inauguration Jan. 20. The kids I’ve talked to are very excited, of course.

Book publishers apparently think there is a…