Here’s the “home page” at the Washington Post for their four excerpts from Bob Woodward’s new book.Post
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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. […]
Biden Paperback Due Thursday
Random House will have a 100,000-copy first printing of a new paperback edition of Democratic vice-presidential candidate Senator Joseph Biden’s book PROMISES TO KEEP: On Life and Politics arriving in stores by Thursday, August 28. (The hardcover appeared on the NYT bestseller list for one week at No. 15 last August.) As they describe it, the book “shows us how the guiding principles he learned early in life–the obligation to work to make people’s lives better, to honor family and faith, to get up and do the right thing no matter how hard you’ve been knocked down, to be honest […]
Snowball Will Need to Gather Momentum without Buffett
One of the questions about Alice Schroeder’s authorized book about Warren Buffett, SNOWBALL, was always whether Buffett would participate in the promotion of the project. (Final bidders in the presumed $7 million-plus auction met with him in Omaha before the deal was sealed.) Bantam publisher Irwyn Applebaum acknowledges that no promises were made on that front. He tells the WSJ: “He gave her access to his contacts, his friends and the opportunity to get to know him better than any other writer, which is what makes the book so outstanding.” He added, “Would we love to have Warren Buffett doing […]
Caro on His Final LBJ Book
With the centennial of Lydon Baines Johnson’s birthday approaching, author Robert Caro discusses his fourth, final and “very long” book on LBJ with the AP: “The historian says he has completed the opening section of his fourth LBJ book, filling hundreds of pages just to tell of Johnson’s brief, unhappy vice presidency under John Kennedy, concluding with Johnson being sworn in as president after Kennedy’s assassination… He is reluctant to reveal details, but says the Kennedys will be ‘more than characters; they are protagonists in this book.’ “Caro tells of the 1960 presidential election, when Johnson and John Kennedy battled […]
Fall Books at NY Mag
As part of their fall preview issue, NY Magazine looks at a variety of authors and forthcoming books, highlighting (in short pieces0 Toni Morrison; Philip Roth and John Updike; Hannah Tinti; Amitav Gosh; Roberto Bolano; Marilyn Robinson; and Curtis Sittenfeld.Books preview home page The section includes a look at the “season”: short month-by-month highlights.