All Intensive Purposes

According to this piece from The Telegraph (Calcutta) (via Brad DeLong) correctly, editor Rachel Klayman saw then-State Sen. Barack Obama as a candidate to be the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senator last year -- before he became famous at the Democratic National Convention last year -- and decided that he would write a good book. Looking into it, she found that her own copy had published a book by Obama a few years before. "What Klayman found unusual is that the book was actually a good read." She got it back into print, and after the convention it started flying off the shelves.