Posted on 06/14/2004 6:25:08 AM PDT by counterpunch
BILL Clinton’s memoirs are to become the bestselling political book in American publishing history. The 1.5 million copies of the first edition of My Life, which will be published on June 22, have already been accounted for in advance orders, and Clinton’s publishers are racing to print a second impression.
The former president’s memoirs will eclipse the 1.8 million copies that his wife Hillary sold of her own memoir, Living History, last year.
Clinton began a marathon publicity tour last week, addressing a booksellers’ convention in Chicago. He promised his audience that "If the book’s no good, it’s all my fault".
The public has already delivered its verdict, however, as the memoirs are the bestselling book on the amazon.com bestseller list. Only JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series has had pre-publication sales to compare with Clinton.
The memoirs, which were completed last month, have been the subject of intense speculation in Washington DC, and the exact content of the book remains a mystery. However, it is known that the book is essentially divided into two halves: one focusing on Clinton’s life before he became President in 1992; the other dealing with his eight years in office.
Although he said "I don’t settle a lot of old scores" in the book, the former president, who received a $10m (£5.5m) advance, has revealed that he had to pause while writing chapters concerning former special prosecutor Ken Starr, whose hounding of the President and his associates still fills him with rage.
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Does the book have a XXX rating.... like his presidency?
That is AWESOME! Too bad we couldn't get those jackets on the books!
Thanks!
=D
hounding? Is this an opinion? Is it Bill's opinion or the writer's opinion?
Wasn't Rush Limbaugh's first book the biggest selling book other than the Bible?
As reportedd by NEWSMAX.com:
Nancy Reagan Vetoes Clinton Eulogy
"It was reported earlier this past week that former President Bill Clinton was furious that he had not been invited to speak at the Friday state funeral of former President Ronald Reagan.
Clinton, so the story went, felt that the Reagan rites were being 'politicized' and he preferred the Nixon funeral 10 years ago in which both former Democratic and Republican presidents spoke.
In fact, Newsmax.com's John LeBoutillier has learned, it indeed was Nancy Reagan's adamant wish that Bill Clinton not speak at her late husband's funeral.
LeBoutillier, a former U.S. congressman with friends close to the Reagan White House and Nancy, said Nancy feels that President Clinton stained the image of the Oval Office.
Both Ronald and Nancy Reagan revered the Oval Office.
As President, Ronald Reagan made it a policy always to wear a suit and tie in the Oval Office.
Before taking office in early 1981, Reagan told aides he was stunned to see photos of Jimmy Carter lounging in the Oval Office in blue jeans and no tie. The soon-to-be-inaugurated 40th president then vowed that "things are going to change."
Revelations during the Starr investigation disclosed that President Clinton conducted an illicit affair in the Oval Office with Monica Lewinsky.
A source close to Nancy told LeBoutillier that Mrs. Reagan would have loved to have had the popular Democrat president eulogize her husband - but she did not want the funeral service "sullied" by the man who desecrated one of Ronnie's favorite places: the Oval Office."
Best news!
Thank you Nancy Reagan. :-]
I read today in one of the local rag newspapers that the "first black president" had his portrait painted by a black artist. Why is it that the skin color of the artist so important?
btw. Kerry recently told the American Urban Radio Network. "I wouldn't be upset if I could earn the right to be the second."
posted here yesterday, virtually same title
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1152957/posts
Well, I guess THE FICTION market is much larger than I thought.............lol.....
On ten million, he'll have to pay almost half in taxes. And this guy can run through money like kleenexes. It's a vanity event for him--and won't last long enough to bother us.
The book will never stain my home.
Does this mean that "My lies" are going to outdo Hitlerys "Lying History"? Wow, I never know fiction was in such demand.
Here's a question that no one will answer: how many of these "advance" sales are bulk purchases by Democratic/liberal organizations? As Bill O'Reilly documented on his TV and radio shows, a substantial portion of Hillary's book "sales" were basically freebies. The DNC and other lib groups bought large quantities of her book, then gave them away to donors, or simply stored them in warehouses. Under the fuzzy accounting system used by the publishing industry, these were still counted as "sales." I'm sure the left is employing similar tactics to inflate sales of Stain Boy's tome, and keep it at the top of the NYT best-seller list. BTW, A.C. Nielsen has another system for tracking book sales, based on the actual number scanned at store cash registers. It will be interesting to see how actual in-store sales of Clinton's book stack up...
"Wasn't Rush Limbaugh's first book the biggest selling book other than the Bible?"
Not sure, but I doubt it seriously. With books such as the 'Harry Potter' series, 'Gone With the Wind', and many others having a wider audience.
A quick Google search shows the 'Quotations of Chairman Mao' coming in at #2 - Rush didn't make the top 10.
How many books did the Kerry campaign have to purchase to get the headline mention?
Bill spent all his money buying advance copies of his own book? How stupid is that?
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