2003 News Archive

Former Chronicle editor's book reveals liberalism's "dark side"

Phil Kent spent the first half of his career in journalism battling "the evil forces"of liberalism while serving as the editorial page editor for The Augusta Chronicle.

Now the former president of the Atlanta-based Southeastern Legal Foundation, a top conservative public interest law firm, has penned an explosive new book that goes beyond the editorial pages to the battlefields of Iraq and courtrooms of America.

The Dark Side of Liberalism: Unchaining the Truth, hit the nation’s bookstores May 15 and has already pre-sold more than 50,000 copies in advance orders and is generating strong national demand, according to its publisher, Harbor House of Augusta.

“Early interest in this book has been phenomenal,” said publisher E. Randall Floyd.
“Phil has managed to strike some kind of central nerve in the publishing industry.”

Floyd said his Augusta-based publishing house has been “swamped” with orders in recent weeks, due mainly to a strong pre-publication campaign launched by its
national distributor, National Book Network. Recent articles in National Review Online and Publishers Weekly about Harbor House that featured Kent’s book have also contributed to the demand.