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Like Oprah Winfrey, it seems Osama bin Laden can send a book rocketing up the Amazon.com charts with a simple mention. An unexpected endorsement from the al Qaeda leader in his recent audiotaped message helped William Blum’s Rogue State: A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower leap to No. 30 on Amazon’s list last Friday (it’s at No. 56 now), after languishing around No. 209,000, give or take. “It is useful for you to read the book Rogue State,” bin Laden told Americans in the message.

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