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by Dave Weigel, Slate

…Carson’s One Nation has sold 224,990 copies, a massive success for his publisher, Random House. (The book came out under the conservative Sentinel imprint.) Clinton’s Hard Choices has sold 222,822 copies. The two of them have been bested only by Bill O’Reilly, whose Killing Jesus has sold 228,811 copies. They are joined in the blockbuster circle by Michael Lewis (189,726 copies of Flash Boys), Charles Krauthammer (177,121 copies of his column collection) and Thomas Piketty (158,668 copies of Capital). Carson’s book is substantially shorter than Clinton’s, and retails for $9.05 less, but he gets bragging rights if he decides to jump into politics…