Glenn Beck’s Next Bestseller Will Veer Into Non-Political, Self-Help Territory

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by Steve Krakauer | 2:50 pm, November 18th, 2010

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Glenn Beck‘s reign as arguably the most successful media figure author has continued with his recent book Broke.

While Broke broke his streak of #1s on the New York Times Bestsellers List, ending it at an unprecedented six in a row (and coming in #2 behind Keith Richards), he’ll have another shot with a new book in January.

“The 7: Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Life” is co-authored with Dr. Keith Ablow, a Fox News (and sometimes Glenn Beck show) contributor, and will be released January 4. It is about as apolitical as Beck has ever been – and that might even include his children’s books. This is self-help, at its purest form (hence the co-author). Here’s the description from Amazon:

Radio and television host Glenn Beck has experienced the rollercoaster of life like few others. From the suicide of his mother when he was just thirteen, to his eventual alcoholism, depression, divorce, unemployment, and health scares—Glenn has weathered life’s darkest storms.

Any one of those struggles could’ve ruined him, yet Glenn was able to keep moving forward. He saw past the darkness into the light; past his grief and addictions and into what his life could be.

The process of finding happiness through personal redemption was not easy, but it left Glenn with a blueprint for how to confront future adversity. Glenn is living proof that these steps—he calls them wonders—don’t just work on paper. They helped transform his life and can they can help to transform yours as well.

Gawker’s Richard Lawson had some fun with the book’s cover yesterday, writing, “Glenn Beck’s New Book Cover Is About Two Men Raising a Baby Together.”

But a source with knowledge of the book tells Mediaite “the cover captures the fact that true happiness is about family and spending time with your kids and that it’s important to have people who can stand with you (represented by Dr. Ablow) to act as a support structure.”

Also, Gawker is sort of half-right about one thing – we hear the boy Beck is holding is in fact his son.

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Dr. Keith Ablow, Glenn Beck, The Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Life

Nobodys_Stooge

That book cover looks like a promo for “My Two Dads”. Poor kid.
Thelonious Funk

Good. I need help. I shut myself in my bomb shelter after spending all of my money on seeds, guns, and MRE’s and now my wife and kids have left me. What do I do?
http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Kelly/720731075 Chris Kelly

Beck’s fans need all the help they can get. In eight years of writing about politics I’ve never seen a crazier group than the ‘partier/Beck fan types. They lie, they mislead, they smear, and they’re completely unable to make valid arguments. And, even if they could make valid arguments, they wouldn’t want to. What’s worse is that their opponents let them get away with it; about all those opponents can do is play the race card instead of the non-toxic alternative: showing how their ideas won’t work in practice.

http://24ahead.com/s/tea-parties
Probably NOT wrong

Anyone want to takes bets on sales vs upcoming Olbermann Book?
Seeing 2012 From My Window

is about as apolitical as Beck has ever been

Don’t worry Steve, the libs will still find reason to hate it. I think the pic of him and his son is cute.
Seeing 2012 From My Window

They lie, they mislead, they smear, and they’re completely unable to make valid arguments

HAHAHAHA, you got that right, RACIST!!
The Real Royal King

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
is about as apolitical as Beck has ever been

Don’t worry Steve, the libs will still find reason to hate it. I think the pic of him and his son is cute.

You don’t find it a bit exploitative to put the picture on a cover to sell more books?
Seeing 2012 From My Window

It would depend on the context, King. In this case I don’t at all. If the book is about him changing his life and his family was part of that, I don’t see the problem.
The Real Royal King

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
It would depend on the context, King. In this case I don’t at all. If the book is about him changing his life and his family was part of that, I don’t see the problem.

I have to disagree.
Seeing 2012 From My Window

Hey King, was Obama exploiting his kids when he put them on the cover of his children’s book?
The Real Royal King

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
Hey King, was Obama exploiting his kids when he put them on the cover of his children’s book?

I think it ought not to have been done, so I would have to say “yes”.
blurgh.

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
Hey King, was Obama exploiting his kids when he put them on the cover of his children’s book?

You mean the children’s book that has cartoon depictions of his daughters walking their dog under the banner that says “A Letter to My Daughters”? Exploitative? Really? That’s the adjective you’d use to describe that?

Okay.
Seeing 2012 From My Window

Hey, I didn’t say it was exploitative, KING did!
blurgh.

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
Hey, I didn’t say it was exploitative, KING did!

Fair enough.

Nice setup, though.
The Real Royal King

blurgh. said:
Fair enough.

Nice setup, though.

I think when a parent places a child’s picture on a book or in a film or pushes a child out on a stage to trot around, a portion of the profits needs to be placed in a trust for the sole benefit of the child. Unless, of course, the child is of contracting age and consents ….
skyfet

Another book already.
fallenchicken

It’s almost like Glenn has a staff of monkeys locked in his basemen, constantly working writing books for him. They would only have 1 or 2 smoke breaks a day at the rate they are writing.
VRWC Destruction Machine

The Real Royal King said:
You don’t find it a bit exploitative to put the picture on a cover to sell more books?

Beck’s new book writes about the changes in his life. I guess if you wrote a book about your life it would be titled “Old Farts Never Change – Old Whine is All I Have “. I can picture you on the jacket cover with a picture of you and “Winston”, the grumpy old man puppet made famous by ventriloquist Terry Fator.
VRWC Destruction Machine

The Real Royal King said:
I have to disagree.

You only disagree because you have Beck Derangement Syndrome.
milynily

This photo opp was probably the longest time in months he’s spent with this child. A radio show, TV show, countless books,and endless rallies.doesn’t give you a lot of family time, really.
The_Reasonable_Lib

VRWC Destruction Machine said:
You only disagree because you have Beck Derangement Syndrome.

Ann Coulter has started a wave of faux-psychiatric diagnoses.
Seeing 2012 From My Window

Milynily, I hear he pre-tapes his show on Friday’s so he has more time to spend with them. Plenty of people work for a living, it’s what ou do with the time you do have with them that matters.
Pablo

The_Reasonable_Lib said:
Ann Coulter has started a wave of faux-psychiatric diagnoses.

How’s your PESTS doing, Lib? BTW, that was Krauthammer, not Coulter.
Pablo

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
Milynily, I hear he pre-tapes his show on Friday’s so he has more time to spend with them.

And he does the radio show from home on Fridays. Milynily is just pulling crap from it’s nether regions. Another alias for the Real Rabid Kook, perhaps?
Big_F-ing_Deal

Beck is a genius…

A political, religious and self-help huckster all wrapped up in one package.

One-stop-shopping for all you pathetic suckers out there.
YOU DON’T HAVE TO GO TO THREE DIFFERENT PLACES TO GET RIPPED OFF ANYMORE, BECK IS SO CONVENIENT, HE SAVES YOU GUYS A LOT OF TIME!!!!
Big_F-ing_Deal

What a great team those 2 writers make.

A guy named Ablow and a guy who Blows.
Some_Dude

He could write a book about taking a shit and a million tea baggers would buy it. And none of those tea baggers will ever read a worthwhile work of literature of science popularization.
SarahP

Glenn Beck…a self help book. Not a chance.
Nahu Tuk

Some_Dude said:
He could write a book about taking a shit and a million tea baggers would buy it. And none of those tea baggers will ever read a worthwhile work of literature of science popularization.

Given the number of libs who are full of shit, I can understand how it would sell.
stoogedudes

I actually didn’t know Glenn Beck had a son. I thought he had all daughters. This is a good picture of Beck and his son. It’s just creepy to have Keith Ablow standing behind them like that.
VRWC Destruction Machine

The_Reasonable_Lib said:
Ann Coulter has started a wave of faux-psychiatric diagnoses.

Coulter’s satire is rather biting and does change the fact you have Beck Derangement Syndrome.
timcajun

This book will be on the top ten list of sales, because Soros is going to buy all the copies and burn them! He will need a tea to give him a match and show him how to do it!
Bill Mahwer

Ablow looks like a bald Glenn Beck.
PoliticalPAW

Schultz guest actually insults him by noting Nazi refs that “trivialize an epic genocide” & r “beneath contempt” http://tinyurl.com/2fm4fr8

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Who says Repugs are uneducated & without scrotums???
http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

Thelonious Funk says:
“I need help. I shut myself in my bomb shelter after spending all of my money on seeds, guns, and MRE’s and now my wife and kids have left me. What do I do?”

Do what Glenn Beck tells you to: sell everything and BUY overpriced GOLD COINS.
http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

If anyone need mental help, it’s Glenn Beck now. He comes off as deranged, and when his minions repeat some version of what Beck rants about, they come off as deranged or just stupid as hell. It’s one thing to express an honest Libertarian opinion like Ron Paul does; it’s just another ball of wax to make the absurd, false claims that Beck does. He really is The Manchurian Lunatic.

http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/2010/11/soros-notes-jon-stewarts-turning-of.html

That is why, blind fans of Glenn Beck, that he is still losing advertisers.

In a statement sent to the StopBeck effort, Michelin’s spokesperson advised that the ads were run in error and confirmed that no more Michelin ads will run on Glenn Beck’s show.

Michelin’s statement:

Our policy does not allow for advertising on shows such as Glen Beck [sic]. Thank you for alerting us to what is clearly a mistake.
We are taking steps to follow up with the network and our advertising agency.

The important takeaway here is that their ads will no longer run on Glenn Beck’s program.

http://stopbeck.com/2010/11/18/michelin-advises-ads-were-run-in-error-confirms-no-more-ads-on-glenn-becks-show/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+StopBeck+(StopBeck)