By Bob Minzesheimer, USA TODAY
Glenn Beck, the darling of the Tea Party, is losing his show on Fox News (he says he jumped; New York magazine reports he was pushed), but he continues to build his media empire online, on radio and in books. Beck's The Original Argument: The Federalists' Case for the Constitution, Adapted for the 21st Century, a paperback original, lands on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list at No. 5. It's his seventh book in the top 10 since 2007. Beck's Christmas novel, The Snow Angel, is out Oct. 25. And in partnership with Simon & Schuster, Beck's production firm is starting its own imprint, Mercury Ink. Its first title, out Aug. 9, is a young adult thriller, Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25 by Richard Paul Evans, who self-published The Christmas Box in 1993. A year later, it hit No. 1 on the list.
