It may be the country’s most famous independent bookstore, but its reputation may be a little inaccurate in one sense — it’s not necessarily the lefty bastion everyone thinks it is. In a profile of Washington’s Politics & Prose bookstore for The Book Standard, Patrick J. Eves says that even though co-owner Carla Cohen admits her clientele is “politically liberal,” conservative books such as Unfit for Command and Bernard Goldberg‘s Bias have sold well there. “Part of the shop’s success has to do with its aggressive efforts to woo customers who are obsessed with neither politics nor prose,” he says. Cohen does admit one conservative book hasn’t done well though: The Truth About Hillary. It wasn’t politics, however: If it was “a careful work of journalism, people would have bought it,” she says.