Sarah Palin's Just Plain Nutz, given for free to buyers of the former governor's memoirs at Bookshop Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, Calif., mentioned here yesterday, are available on a wholesale basis to other booksellers. For more information, contact owner Casey Coonerty Protti.
The Sarah Palin snack is only the latest in a tradition of not-so-delicate commentary on books by political figures on the right made by Bookshop Santa Cruz. In 1993, the bookstore weighed Rush Limbaugh's See I Told You So and sold it for the price of baloney. In 1995, the store sold each copy of Newt Gingrich's Contract with America with a custom-made barf bag. And before the 2008 election, Bookshop Santa Cruz made and sold more than 65,000 George W. Bush Countdown Clocks.