"Major media tear down this wall"
Time to break out best-selling Ron Brown story as news
(Courtesy of Cashill Newsletter - July 12, 2004)
With no support at all from the major media, Jack Cashill’s tough but sympathetic look at the life and death of Ron Brown—Ron Brown’s Body: How One Man’s Death Saved the Clinton Presidency and Hillary’s Future—has become the summer’s surprise best-seller.
For the second week in a row, the book about the mysterious death of the former Commerce secretary and head of the Democratic National Committee, is riding high on the charts.
As of July 11, the book holds the No. 4 non-fiction best-seller spot at Amazon.com – ahead of such high-profile big releases as "Plan of Attack," by Bob Woodward, "Against All Enemies" by Richard Clarke and"Rewriting History" by Dick Morris.
Last week, sparked by an appearance on C-Span by Cashill, "Ron Brown's Body" rose to No. 2 on Amazon's non-fiction best-seller list. It is still holding strong at the No. 2 hardcover spot on BestBlackBooks.com's top 100, the definitive best-seller list for black-themed books.
Cashill makes a powerful case that in the run-up to the 1996 election the media reflexively overlooked the mysterious circumstances of Brown’s death lest they
drive a wedge between the Clinton White House and the African American voters on whom Clinton depended for re-eleection.
“If 28 blacks could be killed at Waco without even Jesse Jackson knowing,” says Cashill, “anything could have happened to Ron Brown.”
A Ph.D. in American studies, Cashill writes without animus and with authority. Knight Ridder's generally liberal and highly skeptical Kansas City Star dedicated the upper half page of its Sunday Book section to a glowing review of the book. Some of the reviewer's comments:
"A human and sympathetic portrait"/ "Riveting storytelling"/ "Meticulously researched"/ "Scrupulous detail"/ “All Americans should demand a full investigation into Ron Brown's activities as Commerce Secretary and into the circumstances of his death."
For the full review:
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/entertainment/8718789.htm
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