Daily Beast: Governor Palin’s “Going Rogue” Has Outsold Barack Obama’s “Audacity of Hope” Even Though the Latter Was Released Three Years Before Going Rogue
Posted on October 23 2011 – 12:35 AM – Posted by: Ian Lazaran
Even the Daily Beast is conceding that “Palin’s 2009 book, Going Rogue, has sold a whopping 1,392,225 copies in hardcover, over 4 times as many as the rest of the current GOP field combined” and that the book “is in rarified air, as one of only six tomes by a politician in the last decade to sell over a million copies.” Going Rogue outsold Barack Obama’s (or Jon Favreau’s) Audacity of Hope even though the latter was released three years before Governor Palin’s memoir:
The Bookscan numbers, which excludes Wal-Mart sales, are as follows for Going Rogue and Audacity of Hope:
Going Rogue: 1,392,225
Audacity of Hope: 1,151,357
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