My colleague Alex Altman has an entertaining review up today of Glenn Beck’s new “thriller,” The Overton Window. Despite getting panned in the Washington Post and Beck’s own acknowledgment that well, maybe he didn’t exactly write the entire thing, Alex notes that the novel will be a best seller anyway. The entire review is definitely worth a read, but here’s a preview:
The book is equal parts apocalyptic showdown and dime-store romance novel, even if the love story — smug Upper East Side heir meets gorgeous wing nut — is a tad unconventional. He follows her to a Tea Party–type meetup at a downtown bar, gets dazzled by her encyclopedic knowledge of the Founding Fathers and sparks fly. It’s clear Noah has chosen to join the righteous struggle when, in a sensuous moment during a visit to the Founders’ Keepers’ bohemian loft, he asks Molly to “hit me with a little Thomas Paine.”