Blood Feud Knocks Hillary Clinton Off #1 Spot on NYT Bestseller List

That’s gotta hurt: after weeks atop the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list, Hillary Clinton‘s Hard Choices got knocked off by Ed Klein‘s expose…about Hillary Clinton.

The Times reports that Klein’s book, Blood Feud: The Clintons vs. the Obamas, had sold 20,105 copies in the past week, while Clinton’s only sold 16,646 copies. While Clinton’s book is already underperforming expectations (it’s successful by nonfiction book standards, but she’s only sold about 17% of her initial million-book run), the fact that it’s been replaced with Klein’s salacious book — replete with anonymous stories of cattiness, ambition, and a physical altercation between then-Secretary Clinton and President Barack Obama — is “a powerful statement about today’s publishing realities.”

And when we say “salacious,” we mean “salacious”:

The suspenseful page-turner paints a Shakespearean (if unbelievable) portrait of power, lust and clashes between and within the two first families. In one passage, Mr. Clinton says: “I hate that man Obama more than any man I’ve ever met, more than any man who ever lived.” In another, Michelle Obama refers to Mrs. Clinton as “Hildebeest.” Other stretches of Mr. Klein’s writing are devoted to marital tensions. Mr. Klein quotes an anonymous friend of Mr. Obama as saying: “Barack gets so fed up with her behavior that he actually encourages Michelle to take separate planes when they go on vacation, so he doesn’t have to fly with her.”

[NYT]
[Image via EdwardKlein.com]

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