396:- The book is an e-book and therefore is not supported by much of the notability apparatus set forth to prove Wiki noteworthiness. Not being in print, it doesn't sit in "important" collections and it will not be in libraries or catalogs except online. Wiki's noteworthiness guidelines are behind the times on this as the publishing world evolves, and questions about whether a work meets them should be secondary to questions of the content of the work itself. As an academic work with implications for sociology, economics, and politics, it is noteworthy and should be kept.
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196:. Lacks coverage in independent reliable sources. Has a lot of sources listed but the article lacks good ones to show notability. Ones by the author are not independent. Some are just listings. Steeles book does not cover this book. The Freedomist and Black News are both the same press release. Only one that might be considered good is the Village Voice but it is just an opinion piece in a blog that doesn't really provide non-trivial coverage of the book. No better sources were found by me. Nothing in
222:. Non-notable self-published book. (BookSurge is a "print on demand" self-publishing wing of Amazon that was later renamed/merged into CreateSpace.) There's no reliable sources that show notability and the sources remaining on the article do not show notability in the slightest. (I removed the worst of the links.) None of the claims in the article are backed up by reliable or non-primary sources and smells of
432:- Non-notable. WP is not here to document every self-published book. Regarding some of the claims made in favor of keeping, Sanz is a financial analyst and essayist/journalist, not an academic. Mention of the listing on the UPenn site seems to imply that it has academic credibility; however, that site is simply a library of free online ebooks, and just contains a link to the book on Scribd.
377:. Not all books get reviewed by The New York Times, especially intellectual ones like this one. I've seen many similar cases on Knowledge, thus considering that there are no notability related issues for this book. And indeed, the article is not premature, the book was published in 2007, before 2008 elections.
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