I received six hardbacks of A Conservative History of the American Left in the mail yesterday three weeks in advance of the on-sale date. Even for the third time, it is still exhilarating to see for the first time the finished product of years of work. Getting a new book is a little like opening presents on Christmas: you get older but it never gets old. An interesting rubbery texture embossed over the middle two-thirds of the cover gives it a strange feel. The color sceme is similar to Intellectual Morons, but the yellows and reds are bolder and brighter here. The book runs 455 pages with notes, index, and other back matter. It's almost as thick as Why the Left Hates America and Intellectual Morons combined. Two rows of tiny red men waving tiny red flags separate the title from cover pictures of the likes of Emma Goldman, Alger Hiss, and Hillary Clinton, who replaced Nancy Pelosi on the cover for the simple reason that Hillary is a character in the book and Pelosi isn't. My dust jacket photo, which had been the same for my last two books, is of the same guy just a decade or so older. You're only 26 once, but if you use the same promotional picture people will get the idea that you've been 26 for several decades. I'm 34, and so is the guy in my picture. Inside, an introduction and a conclusion surround 24 chapters. The text runs 374 pages and the endnotes go for more than 60. The chapters are separated into five "books"--"Backwoods Millennialists," "Radicals and Reformers," "The Old Left," "The New Left," and "The 9/12 Left." Want to know more? Buy the book, I won't let you down.

Congrats again, what a great feeling that must be. I'll be placing my order.

Congratulations, Dan. Loved the first two books. Looking forward to the new one!