Centerfield

Liberals Catching On

Liberal authors are catching up with conservatives on the best-seller list.

"What goes around comes around," said Oren Teicher, chief operating officer of the American Booksellers Association. "A year ago I was doing interviews on why there were so many conservative books out there."

Teicher says liberals were slow to latch onto a new type of book -- "a brief political tome by people who are well known through TV journalism" but now seem to have mastered the form. And he said the success of "Living History," which surprised many in the book industry, "shows that there's a big audience out there for progressive titles."