The Washington Post is running excerpts from Barton Gellman’s THE ANGLER: The Cheney Vice Presidency, which publishes on Tuesday. The book’s take on domestic surveillance conducted post 9/11: “Cheney and his counsel would struggle for months to quash the legal insurgency. By the time President Bush became aware of it, his No. 2 had stoked dissent into flat-out rebellion. The president would face a dilemma, and the presidency itself a historic test. Cheney would come close to leading them off a cliff, man and office both.” Washington PostSecond excerpt
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Ambitious New Alexander McCall Smith Serial
The Telegraph will serialize a new Alexander McCall Smith novel, Corduroy Mansions, beginning on Monday and running in installments (a new one every weekday) over the next 20 weeks. The idea came from the Telegraph’s comment and community editor Iain Martin, who serialized a novel by the author when he worked at the Scotsman. Martin says, “He wanted to see if he could take it one step further –I think we have gone several steps.” The Telegraph has built a large website around the serial, which will elicit reader comments, questions and suggestions that McCall Smith will address online, and […]
Spears Book Is the Embargo to Break
You didn’t see it on most of the fall preview round-ups, but the press has ample space for anything Spears and the AP has gotten a copy of Lynne Spears’ book THROUGH THE STORM well in advance of the September 16 laydown: Spears presents herself as a loving, selfless (she gave up her job as a school teacher for her daughter’s sake) but increasingly powerless parent. After the jolting, but pleasant surprise of Britney Spears’ debut smash, … Baby One More Time, Lynne Spears says she felt she was losing control when a 1999 Rolling Stone magazine story featured a […]
First Lady Bios, First on Kindle
Globe Pequot is releasing biographies of the two potential First Ladies Cindy McCain and Michelle Obama as Amazon Kindle exclusives in advance of the print releases. Elizabeth Lightfoot‘s Michelle Obama: Grace and Intelligence in a Time of Change is available electronically today, with an announced print release date of November 26. Alicia Colon’s Cindy McCain: Elegance, Good Will and Hope for a New America will be available on Kindle on September 15, but “will only go to print if John McCain wins the election.” Amazon release
Woodward The War Within Excerpts
Here’s the “home page” at the Washington Post for their four excerpts from Bob Woodward’s new book.Post
Woodward: Bush Still in Denial
This time it’s Fox News that broke the embargo on the new Bob Woodward book. Their report doesn’t carry a lot of big revelations, though they note President Bush did sit with Woodward for two interviews for the new book, THE WAR WITHIN. They say Woodward is “less critical” of the president this time, though he still writes: “President Bush has rarely leveled with the public to explain what he was doing and what should be expected. He did not seek sacrifice from most of the country when he had the chance. He did not even mobilize his own party. […]