A book published during the presidency of Chester A. Arthur has a greater chance of being in print today than one published during the time of Reagan. Last year I wrote about some very interesting research being done by Paul J. Heald at the University of Illinois, based on software that crawled Amazon for a random selection of books. At the time, his results were only preliminary, but they were ne
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