WINGER BOOKS HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR A WHILE

The wingers have a decades-old tradition of pouring out millions of agit-prop books. They may have reached their peak in September, 1964, according to Rick Perlstein's Before the Storm, page 477:

This kind of right-wing cultural entrepreneurship might never have been reckoned with at all had reports not begun filtering out in late September that self-published books by three conservative authors had sold enough copies to supply one out of every ten men, women, and children in the country. The head of the Fair Campaign Practices Commission called them the "dirty books": John Stormer' s None Dare Call It Treason; J. Evetts Haley's A Texan Looks at Lyndon; Phyllis Schlafly's A Choice Not an Echo, now in a third edition, and another book she had somehow managed to squeeze out in October, The Gravediggers, a numbingly conspiricist indictment of the "card-carrying liberals" whose appeasement policies, not Goldwater's militarism, were "really risking nuclear war." Sometimes the 20 million copies of the broadside LBJ: A Political Biography—printed by Willis Carto, an erstwhile Birch staffer fired for his anti-Semitism—were included in the category as well. That jacked the total to one "hate book" for every four Americans. When the New York Times reported, "Never before have paperback books of any category been printed and distributed in such volume in such a short time," ordinary publishers began wondering what they were doing wrong. What they were doing wrong was not hiring distributors who thought of their products as billboards on the road to Damascus.