The Key to All Mythologies

The pub date at Amazon is December 26, which is not the part of the season when trade publishers bring out books they are going to push very hard. Somebody at Doubleday probably had the same thought recently expressed elsewhere:

I assume Frederick Kagan, Bradley Schlotzman, and Jonah's mom are already getting complementary copies; Dinesh von Souza will probably do his patriotic duty; which leaves - ? A mule train a half-mile long will have to be rounded up to ship the remainder of the edition to the respectively vice-presidential and presidential libraries of Dan Quayle and George W Bush, where they will serve to fill out the echoing bookshelves and glut the hungry silverfish.

Hint to Goldberg: Make it a little more "campaign friendly." That's where dropping Hillary from the subtitle is probably going to hurt you some. How about "The Totalitarian Temptation from Dialectics to the Democratic Candidates"? Plus you'd get that extra alliteration -- a real bonus, catchiness-wise.

(crossposted from CT