As a followup to this posting: while I’m still uncertain as to whether the “Pocket Obama” Little Blue Book is the real deal, I can confirm that THIS little blue book is for real. Saw a stack of ’em for sale at the Ogden Costco today. And even though Costco had marked the price down to $6.59 from Penguin Books price of $15.00, it seems I still wasn’t quite able to afford it. It was either that, or the five dollar used DVD of the old serial “Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe.” I bought the one that I knew was more important and which had the best thinking and ideas behind it.
Penguin Books certainly seemed to stamp this book out in one hell of a hurry. And to fluff up the pagecount, they added filler, Lincoln’s two innaugural addresses, the Gettysburg address and Ralph Emmersons “Self Reliance.” I’m guessing that “Das Capital” wasn’t available.
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I think we’ll be seeing these in Japan quite soon, with Japanese annotations.
There’s quite a market building up for Obama material, with an eye to improving their English skills.