Why should The Strand survive? | Spectator USA

Inside the tables were packed in the same way. Various books about (and purportedly by) every left-wing politician in America filled the tables. You might say that this is because New York is a left-wing city. But at least half of the country (and many New Yorkers) do not hold left-wing views, and The Strand seemed to have little to say to them. Other than that they are wrong and should read the following, dully improving books. At this point in the argument people in the book trade tend to claim that sad though they are to say it liberals buy books and conservatives don t. But among much else the bestseller lists of the New York Times (to the chagrin of that former paper) proves that this is not true. It is just that people like those who stack the shelves at The Strand and similar bookstores seem to think that nobody of a conservative or contrarian frame of mind would enter a bookshop. Or that if they did then this is nothing but the best opportunity to thwart or otherwise counteract such bigots.

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