The Obama Diaries
{{Short description|2010 book by Laura Ingraham}}
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| name = The Obama Diaries
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| author = Laura Ingraham
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| country = United States
| language = English
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| publisher = Threshold Editions
| pub_date = July 13, 2010
| media_type = Hardback
| pages = 304
| isbn = 1-4391-9751-2
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The Obama Diaries is a book written by Laura Ingraham and published by Simon & Schuster on July 13, 2010. It reached the number 1 position on the New York Times Best Seller list published August 1, 2010, staying at number 2 for approximately one month after that.{{cite news
|title=New York Times Best Sellers: Hardcover Nonfiction
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2010-08-01/overview.html
|work=New York Times
|date=2010-08-01
|accessdate=2011-01-28}}{{cite book
|title=Google Books: The Obama Diaries
|isbn = 9781439198445|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jvZ8RAAACAAJ
|accessdate=7 August 2010|last1 = Ingraham|first1 = Laura|date = 13 July 2010| publisher=Simon and Schuster }}
Fiction or non-fiction
Whether to list the book as fiction or non-fiction was disputed.{{cite news
|last=Hoover
|first=Bob
|title=Politics on parade in books, even during summer
|url=http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10228/1080010-148.stm
|accessdate=2 September 2010
|newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
|date=2010-08-16}}{{cite news
|title = NYT book editor defends putting 'Obama Diaries' on non-fiction list
|url = http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=188069
|accessdate = 2 September 2010
|newspaper = Poynter Online
|date = 2010-08-03
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100805065616/http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=188069
|archive-date = 2010-08-05
|url-status = dead
|last=Schuessler
|first=Jennifer
|title=Inside the List
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/books/review/InsideList-t.html
|accessdate=2 September 2010
|newspaper=New York Times
|date=2010-08-06}} The New York Times and USA Today classified it as non-fiction on their Best Seller list, but made the clear distinction that it is satire, and therefore more spurious than fact.{{cite news
|title=USA TODAY BEST-SELLERS
|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/19/AR2010081905377.html
|accessdate=2 September 2010
|publisher=Associated Press
|date=2010-08-19}}{{dead link|date=June 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
References
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External links
- {{official website|http://www.lauraingraham.com/the-obama-diaries}}
{{Barack Obama}}
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Category:2010 non-fiction books
Category:American political satire
Category:Books about Barack Obama
Category:Political satire books
Category:Threshold Editions books
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