Deep Throat, Goldwater, and Nader Top Out-of-Print Bestsellers

Deep Throat, Goldwater, and Nader Top Out-of-Print Bestsellers

BERKELEY, Calif., Sept. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Readers are seeking classic titles by 1960s and 1970s newsmakers W. Mark Felt (Deep Throat), Barry Goldwater, and Ralph Nader, according to the newly released BookFinder.com Report, a listing of the most sought-after out-of-print bestsellers in America.

Volume 3 of the BookFinder.com Report is based on BookFinder.com's analysis of aggregate trends for out-of-print book searches between July 2004 and June of 2005. The Report includes lists of the top-10 most searched for titles in ten different categories. See the complete results at http://report.bookfinder.com/ .

Before former FBI Associate Director W. Mark Felt was unmasked as being Watergate's Deep Throat, he was just another Washington player; his out-of-print 1979 memoir, The FBI Pyramid from the Inside, dealt with the agency's workings and includes denials of his involvement with the Watergate scandal. Demand for the book peaked after the revelation, as curious readers investigated what Deep Throat knew, and when he knew it.

"2004 saw a massive surge of demand for John Kerry's anti-war book The New Soldier and Lynne Cheney's frontier lesbian romance Sisters. The election's over, but readers are still looking for out-of-print political books from the 1960s and 1970s that provide context for current headlines," says BookFinder.com founder Anirvan Chatterjee.

1964 Republican Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater inspired a generation of young conservatives with his libertarian ideals. His 1960 book, The Conscience of a Conservative, discussed ideas still relevant to contemporary political readers, including the flat tax, the reduction of federal spending, and the privatization of social security.

While Goldwater was advocating reduced regulation of businesses, Ralph Nader was calling for just the opposite. His first book, 1965's Unsafe at Any Speed, was a blistering critique of the Chevrolet Corvair's poor safety design. The impact of the book, now out-of-print and in-demand, caused GM to redesign the car and launched the career of the consumer advocate and three-time Presidential candidate.

Since 1997, BookFinder.com has been one of the best ways to find and buy new, used, rare, and out-of-print books online. The free web service allows bibliophiles to comparison shop from a catalog of over 80 million books for sale from a network of 80,000 booksellers-making it the world's largest searchable book inventory, online or off.

Source: BookFinder.com

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