Authorship Over at the Barack Obama article there was some discussion of whether his book authorship merited lead position I argued and consensus seems agreed on this that very brief mention of those best sellers should be in the lead particularly since the books have their own article section In McCain s case he is co author on several books none seem as prominent in sales ranking and the like and there is not a separate section on them However I still wonder whether there s any sentiment that authorship should still get a clause in the lead talk