I want to know the answer to the following question:
Readers were more interested in sensationalist stories about what topics than they were in political theory itself?
All the background I'm provided with is that "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.". Is that enough to answer the question?