IN THE MAIL: Barack Obama’s new book, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream. I flipped through it to see if I could find the hand-sanitizer bit, but couldn’t.

Plus, a book I ordered for my nephew, John Birmingham and Dirk Flinthart’s How to Be a Man, which looks to be chock-full of practical advice. Birmingham is probably better known to the blogosphere as the author of Weapons of Choice (involving the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Hillary Clinton) and Designated Targets, but How to Be a Man isn’t science fiction.