[PW] claim--"New York Times Bestseller"

[Ellen Cousins]

Hello Kevin

Here is a link to a NYTimes page from November 18, 2007 showing Dark 
Mission listed under
paperback nonfiction as #21:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/books/bestseller/1118bestpapernonfiction.html

Ellen C.

Kevin O'Kelly wrote:
> The patron is me, so no rush. I am working in cataloging today. The
> book "Dark Mission: the Secret History of NASA" is on my desk. The
> authors of this screed claim, among other things, that NASA is run by
> the Masons, that Mars actually is more or like Arizona but NASA
> doctors all the photos released to the public so it will look
> non-terrestrial, and that Kennedy was assasinated because he offered
> to cooperate with the Russians on space exploration.
> 
> But getting to what prompted this email: "New York Times Bestseller"
> is written on the cover of this book.
> 
> I'm fairly sure this book was never  a NYT bestseller. How can the
> publisher get away with having this on the cover?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Kevin