Yahoo! - Chomsky book still tops sales after plug by Chavez at UN

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Chomsky book still tops sales after plug by Chavez at UN
Sun Sep 24, 3:25 PM ET


WASHINGTON (AFP) - Author Noam Chomsky's "Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance" remained perched atop of Amazon.com's bestseller list, after its plug last week by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez during a fiery UN speech condemning US President George W. Bush.

The popular online company showed the 2003 book still as its biggest seller, after having claimed the top spot Friday following Chavez recommendation of it as "an excellent book to help us understand what has been happening in the world throughout the 20th century ... and the greatest threat looming over our planet."

News reports said the book, published in 2003, leapt from 26,000 to number one following Chavez's headline-making speech in which he railed against US "imperialism," saying "the hegemonic pretensions of the American empire are placing at risk the very survival of the human species."

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