Kennedy’s Inside-Washington Memoir Tops the Bestseller List

Louisiana Senator John Kennedy’s book, How to Test Negative for Stupid: And Why Washington Never Will, has become a surprising hit, selling nearly half a million copies and spending 13 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list. The memoir offers an insider, tongue-in-cheek tour of Congress and Capitol Hill, mixing Kennedy’s sharp one-liners with candid portraits of colleagues and the Senate’s quirks, and it has outpaced more traditional policy-focused political tomes.