Nov 18 2008
A: Sarah Palin’s biography/political memoir. Rumor is that Palin is going to get $7 million for her biography/memoir/collection of stump speeches about that terrorist loving President-Elect of ours, the Bridge to Nowhere, Joe the Plumber, Tito the Builder, Earmarks for Eskimos. The problem for Palin is that she is generally disliked by the broad spectrum(…)
Nov 14 2008
Nate Silver, god of the political predicting, is shopping around two books. If there was one place that sad liberals could go to make yourself feel better during this eternity of an election season, it was fivethirtyeight.com. As for why I call Nate Silver a god, it’s because it’s true and factual The dude predicted(…)
Oct 1 2008
The Vice Presidential debate is scheduled for tomorrow evening and with expectations low on Sarah Palin (who I think will likely do quite well in the debates due to those lower expectations), Michelle Malkin has questioned the moderator's impartiality. Gwen Ifil, of PBS, has a book coming out called "The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in(…)
Jul 14 2008
The New Yorker’s cover this month features about every Obama slur possible on its cover. It’s obviously meant to be satiric but is it? My thinking is that if you put McCain on there as a Manchurian candidate, while ironic and satirical, it would also be offensive. Of course, media shouldn’t shy away from being(…)
Jun 17 2008
Publishers’ Weekly has an article about how the publishing industry is releasing more political books such as the Scott McLellan, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception, and the Douglas Feith, War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism, which purport to tell the(…)
May 28 2008
What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture by the third press secretary for George W. Bush will be released on June 2, 2008, but copies are popping up in stores. Politico bought a copy from a Washington bookstore and provided a review of it. Scott McClellan talks in his book about the(…)
Sep 17 2007
Alan Greenspan couldn’t have been more inscrutable as the Fed Chairman nor more powerful. Every Tuesday, the investment world awaited his stance on the interest rate. According to the NY Times, Greenspan speaks out against Bush, Republicans and the War in his book, The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World. On Bush :(…)
Mar 21 2007
MSNBC reported on the contents of former Senator Tom DeLay’s tell all, No Retreat, No Surrender. In an effort to burn all bridges and to come off sounding like a hurt teen because whose friends have been whispering behind his book, DeLay criticizes everyone but his wife and daughter. At one point, DeLay recounts how(…)
Mar 7 2007
“Strike while the iron is hot” or so goes the maxim. In an effort to ride the publicity and interest surrounding the outing of Valerie Plame by officials in the Bush Administration, Sterling Publishing’s Union Square Press imprint will be putting out a book titled “The United States v. I. Lewis Libby” in April. The(…)
Dec 27 2006
Echoing the sentiment of JP Morgan’s, publishers are looking to sign and release more non fiction, political books for the 2007, 2008 year. Out are the “angry liberal” books and in are issue-based books, biographies, personal books from presidential candidates, and war books. Via Book Standard. Send to Kindle
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