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JFK did it. Brown does it. And now every aspirant puts out a book. But the psychology is very odd With candidates posting videos on YouTube and Barack Obama pledging to tell supporters his vice-presidential choice by text, Campaign 2008 has been a new-tech election. But one piece of old technology has proved an unexpectedly powerful player: writing. Obama is the first candidate to have had two bestselling books - not campaign manifestos, but proper memoirs, which he seems to have written himself - before even gaining the nomination. His pro-prose, though, has been answered by a wave of hostile volumes. The No 1 non-fiction slot he once occupied is filled by Obama Nation, a title that sounds supportive until the explanation that is meant to be spoken quickly and spittingly: "Abomination". In Britain, too, political rivals are... [read full story]
