“There’s a lot of books out there – a lot,” Bush said. “I don’t know if I’ve set the record, or not, but I guess it means that I’ve made some hard decisions and will continue to make hard decisions.” He suggested that “somebody ought to add up the number of pages that have been written about my administration.”

We didn’t count the book pages but we did check the number of books that have been published during the nearly six years of the Bush administration. Then we compared that to the number published during Bill Clinton’s first six years in office. And the president is right. There have been a lot of books published about his administration–approximately 230 for Bush, compared to 157 published on the Clinton presidency from 1993 to 1998 (217 books were published during the full eight years of Clinton’s administration).

Next week, 166 new pages of Bush-bashing will arrive in stores. “Destined for Destiny, the Unauthorized Autobiography of George W. Bush” was co-written by Peter Hilleren and Scott Dikkers, editor-in-chief of The Onion, which should tell you everything you need to know about the book. “Destined for Destiny” certainly looks and feels like the real deal, an actual memoir, thanks to the cover’s straightforward presidential design . But a closer look reveals that the badge on the upper-left corner of the jacket reads: WINNER OF THE SUPER SPECIAL PRESIDENTIAL AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHIZING. And with that, the opening shot is fired.

As they do when they send up the commander-in-chief on their weekly web radio address, the book’s authors mock key moments in the president’s life in his own voice, uncannily imitating his speech patterns and mercilessly lampooning his famous malapropisms. A sample passage, on the decision to invade Iraq: “There were many good reasons to go to war with Iraq. The first one I proposed was that I was the Commander-in-Chief, and I was ordering it.

“When I was told this would not be a good enough reason, more ideas were generated.

“One excellent reason, for the moment, was to find Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, which we had sold to him in the 1980s. I believed strongly that the evil dictator had those weapons, because my Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, still had carbon copies of the receipts.”

And so on. Chapter titles include “No Bush Child Left Behind,” “Then I Ran Some Companies into the Ground” “I Won! Or Lost, Whatever” and “The Greatest Love of my Life: Jesus.” (Indeed, in an inspired send-up of the memoir staple-the life-in-photos at the book’s center-the authors have Photoshopped Jesus into the background of every iconic Bush photo you’ve ever seen. A photo montage has already been making the rounds on YouTube as part of a viral marketing campaign.)

If “Destined for Destiny” sneaks its way onto The New York Times Political Best Seller List (which would be odd for a book of satire), it’ll certainly have its share of Bush book company. Of the top 25 sellers on the list, 11 books deal at least in part with the current administration. Their titles are telling: “State of Denial,” “Fiasco,” “Hubris.”

A couple of caveats on that 230 tally: The number of books on each administration was calculated by searching “Books In Print” for English-language, non-fiction, in or out of print, from U.S. publishers with Clinton or Bush listed as the subject. The numbers omit some books about each administration that did not explicitly list Bush or Clinton as a subject–Thomas E. Rick’s “Fiasco,” for example. Only one version of Kenneth Starr’s Independent Counsel report on Clinton is counted, although there were several other versions published.