April 29, 2003

Hillary Clinton's Memoirs to Hit Stores

After laying out a seven-figure advance for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's memoirs, her publishers are counting on seven-figure sales.

The account of her years in the White House will have a first printing of 1 million copies, her lawyer told The Associated Press. The 576-page book, entitled "Living History," is scheduled for release June 9. An audio version, read by Clinton, will be released the same day.

"Only a small handful of books have a 1-million-copy first printing, and I cannot think of another nonfiction book in recent history that has had that large a first printing," Robert Barnett, Clinton's lawyer, said Sunday.

The first lady-turned senator was paid an $8 million advance by Simon & Schuster. Foreign rights have already been sold in 16 countries, from South America to Europe to Asia.

The list price for the book, according to online seller amazon.com, is $28.

The book, which took two years to write, will be billed as a "complete and candid" accounting of her years in the White House, from the health care debate to impeachment to the launching of her own political campaign in 2000.

If you're one of those poor deluded idiots that thinks Hitlery is a "great woman" and can't wait to rush out and buy your copy of "her" book (dont' forget: she admitted to hiring a ghost writer), I can't help you and you're definitely at the wrong blog.
Not only has Sen. Rodham-Clinton never told the truth about anything, much less been "complete and candid," but a mere 3 weeks ago, her publisher let it be leaked to media like Drudge that they had no working title, no manuscript and no prospect of a book to publish from the Pantsuited One:HILLARY CLINTON BOOK PAST DUE, PUBLISHER'S ANGST OVER NO MANUSCRIPT, NO TITLE; SENATOR TOOK LARGEST ADVANCE IN HISTORY
According to Rush Limbaugh, a scholar of Hitlery phenomena, this late appearance was the result of allowing her to edit in material and personal quotes about the war on Iraq that were favorable to her, presumably on President Bush's side, although only today she's proclaimed herself to be anything but a "Bushie" on domestic policies, in fervent hope that the winds are again blowing in her Liberal Dimocrat direction:
Hillary tears into Bush at Democrats’ fund-raiser .
[Note: The Dim strategy to win everything back in 2004 is to play up Bush's handling of the economy, despite our military victory. Or in other words, they want a repeat of 1992 with Clinton's win over Bush 41 with that moronic "It's the economy, stupid." platform of James Carville's.
There was nothing too very wrong with the American economy under Bush 41, just as the economy's in pretty great shape now.
And the Dims are presupposing that anything the President does or doesn't do has that great an impact on the economy anyway!
Remember also that it wasn't so much that Clinton "won" as that Ross Pero was the spoiler for George H.W. Bush with 20% of the vote.
After our victory in Iraq, I'm convinced that Bush 41 lost because he didn't "finish" the military victory in Operation Desert Storm by doing what his son just accomplished last month.]
Returning to Hil the Haggard, I dislike everything about this woman and have since she grabbed those FBI files of GOP members in 1993; she's shrill, she's mean and she's vicious and her politics of personal destruction and of trying to implement her version of the Nanny-Police State par excellence all make me ill.
Go away, PIAPS, just go away.
And may "your" "book" go into the bargain bin along with Algore's last 2 duds.