"...The essay was originally published in the journal Raritan in 1986, but it was not popularized until nearly two decades later, in January 2005, when Princeton University Press repackaged it as a small, spaciously lined 80-page book. It was an unexpected commercial hit, becoming a No. 1 New York Times best seller. Soon Professor Frankfurt was making television appearances on "60 Minutes," the "Today" show and "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart."
The book's popularity seemed to be fueled in part by the recent re-election of President George W. Bush, many of whose critics viewed his administration, with its purported dismissal of what one Bush aide called the "reality-based community," as exemplifying the very blitheness about truth that Professor Frankfurt had described..."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/17/books/harry-g-frankfurt-dead.html
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