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Karp on McCain

September 28, 2008
By Michael Cader

Twelve publisher and longtime editor of John McCain the author Jonathan Karp writes in Newsweek on “what he’s learned from poring over a decade’s worth of the senator’s manuscripts.” Critics of McCain dismiss these works as an exercise in self-mythology and career advancement; they see in them certain ideals–about rabble-rousing and honor, for example–that they […]

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Revealing Ron Paul's Ghostwriter

September 1, 2008
By Michael Cader

Presidential candidate Ron Paul’s book THE REVOLUTION: A Manifesto “has become the centerpiece of a counterconvention,” the Washington Post reports. “But although the congressman from Texas has repeatedly called the book his own work, it was largely written by an unacknowledged ghostwriter, and it is unclear how much Paul contributed to the final product.” The […]

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Palin Books? There's One

September 1, 2008
By Michael Cader

Seattle’s Epicenter Press has Kaylene Johnson’s short book SARAH: How a Hockey Mom Turned Alaska’s Political Establishment Upside Down, published in May, the only book so far about the Republican’s new vice presidential running mate. The publisher told a WSJ blog on Friday “they anticipate ramping up production with Ingram Book Co. for ‘tens of […]

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Suskind Book Says White House Ordered Forgery

August 5, 2008
By Michael Cader

Ron SUskind’s just-released THE WAY OF THE WORLD charges that the White House instructed the CIA to “forge a back-dated, handwritten letter from the head of Iraqi intelligence to Saddam Hussein,” Politico reports, “designed to portray a false link between Hussein’s regime and al Qaeda as a justification for the Iraq war.” The book says: […]

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