--- title: Ben Carson Is Still Winning in One Way description: The Republican once-ran is beating Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton—in book sales canonical: https://time.com/4243699/ben-carson-is-still-winning-in-one-way/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-08T20:34:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T15:31:17.704Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Ben Carson Is Still Winning in One Way og:description: The GOP once-ran is beating Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton—in book sales og:url: https://time.com/4243699/ben-carson-is-still-winning-in-one-way/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5e1976c7741c693d/69887fd2e20a873aeca8fc9d/ben-carson-perfect-union.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Ben Carson Book Signing at Barnes & Noble og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ben Carson Is Still Winning in One Way twitter:description: The GOP once-ran is beating Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton—in book sales twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5e1976c7741c693d/69887fd2e20a873aeca8fc9d/ben-carson-perfect-union.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Ben Carson Is Still Winning in One Way by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Mar 8, 2016 8:34 PM UTC  Republican Presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson is seen at Barnes and Noble where he made an appearance to sign copies of his book "A More Perfect Union: What We the People Can Do to Reclaim Our Constitutional Liberties" on November 5, 2015 in Miami, Florida. Republican Presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson is seen at Barnes and Noble where he made an appearance to sign copies of his book "A More Perfect Union: What We the People Can Do to Reclaim Our Constitutional Liberties" on November 5, 2015 in Miami, Florida.Johnny Louis—FilmMagic/Getty Images by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Mar 8, 2016 8:34 PM UTC Ben Carson may have [ended his presidential run](http://time.com/4246524/ben-carson-drops-out-of-race/), but he’s the frontrunner in book sales, beating Clinton by nearly 400,000 print copies sold. Since the beginning of 2014, Carson has sold 688,000 print books according to Nielsen BookScan, which measures about 85% of the U.S. market. He has written four titles since the beginning of 2014: [_A More Perfect Union_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/1591848040/?tag=timecom-20), [_One Nation_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/1595231129/?tag=timecom-20), [_You Have a Brain_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0310745993/?tag=timecom-20) and [_My Life_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0310344514/?tag=timecom-20), which is based on his earlier book [_Gifted Hands_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0310214696/?tag=timecom-20)_._ In a [November](http://time.com/4124438/2016-presidential-race-books-hillary-clinton-ben-carson/) piece, TIME used Nielsen data putting Carson’s sales at 264,000 copies of those books, a number that did not include the hardcover edition of _One Nation_; with that data, plus all sales since November, Carson has another 424,000 books to his credit. Carson’s closest contender is Hillary Clinton, who had a best seller with [_Hard Choices_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/1476751471/?tag=timecom-20); the 2014 memoir of her years as Secretary of State has sold 292,200 print copies, according to Nielsen BookScan. (E-book information is not included in these figures.) Donald Trump comes in third place with sales for November’s [_Crippled America_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/1501137964/?tag=timecom-20) and an updated re-release of 2011’s [_Time to Get Tough_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/1621574954/?tag=timecom-20), totaling 214,000\. Ted Cruz’s [_A Time for Truth_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0062365614/?tag=timecom-20) (June 2015) sold 65,000 copies, while neither Marco Rubio’s [_American Dreams_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/1595231137/?tag=timecom-20) (Jan. 2015) nor Bernie Sanders’ [_Outsider in the White House_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/1784784184/?tag=timecom-20) (Sept. 2015) have hit the 15,000 mark, according to data through Feb. 21. Will _A More Perfect Union_ go down as a classic of its genre like Trump’s perennial 1987 bestseller [_The Art of the Deal_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0394555287/?tag=timecom-20)? 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