Q: Readers were more interested in sensationalist stories about what topics than they were in political theory itself?
A: The second most popular category, "general works" (those books "that did not have a dominant motif and that contained something to offend almost everyone in authority") demonstrated a high demand for generally low-brow subversive literature.
Does the answer correctly answer the question

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(1). yes;
(2). no;
(2).