Obama's overnight fame renews interest in book
Tuesday, August 3, 2004
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The surge of interest in Barack Obama after his speech to the Democratic National Convention is spilling over to the book he wrote a decade ago, with a first edition copy going for $255 on eBay and prerelease orders for a new edition already putting it on best-seller lists.
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