Simon & Schuster Sees Lewinsky-Free Hillary Book as Million Seller

NewsMax.com ^ | 4/28/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[kattracks]

Hillary Clinton's White House memoirs are apparently ready to go, reports last month to the contrary, with her publisher, Simon & Schuster, preparing a whopping million-copy initial press run.

Titled "Living History," Mrs. Clinton's 576-page tome is set to hit bookstores on June 9, with an audio version read by Hillary herself planned for release the same day.

The book will be billed as a "complete and candid" accounting of her years as first lady, from the health care debate to impeachment to the launching of her own political career, reports the Associated Press.

But others familiar with the project say that New York's junior senator has gone back on her pledge to write a true tell-all, and will gloss over the juicy details of her husband's affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky and relationships with dozens of other women that have threatened to sink their marriage.

"Much of it - especially as she relives those early years - is touching and delicious," reported the New York Post's Cindy Adams two weeks ago. "And whoever's seen it, loves it. However, those close to the manuscript are saying that, unfortunately, she won't tell the seamy slimy stuff."

Rumors have swirled since Clinton inked her deal for an $8 million advance that she figured her marriage to Bill would be over by publication date - and that dishing more dirt could only generate more sympathy and give her ambitions for higher office a boost.

But with a Clinton divorce not in the cards, Hillary decided not to get into her private life as a first lady scorned.

"Why would she?" noted Adams. "She's going to rise higher in public life. ... Telling how her guts turned during Operation Monica is not statesmanlike. 'They' want the Vince Foster truth. More of the Bill and Hill inside."

"This she isn't doing," insisted the Post's gossip maven.

"Those who love her say she doesn't need the money and should give back her $2.whatever mil advance," says Adams, which sounds like a veiled threat to Simon & Schuster to take the sanitized version of Hillary's book - or forget about the whole project.

Luckily for New York's junior senator, the bluff apparently worked.

"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," boasted Clinton lawyer Robert Barnett to the AP.

For readers interested in a fuller account of the inside story, "Living History" won't be the only Clinton book in stores this summer. "Hillary's Scheme," by NewsMax.com's Carl Limbacher, is due out on Aug. 5, and will be chock full of information Mrs. Clinton won't be covering in her sanitized screed.

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[NEWwoman]

Just curious. Is anyone out there going to buy this? (For the record, I'm not.)

[quark]

Is anyone out there going to buy this?

Yes, left-wing knotheads...

[Paul Atreides]

Talk about the Dixie Chicks being airbrushed!

[Paul Atreides]

Could she have come up with a more egotistical title?

[First Amendment]

I will be very gratified to see this "book" bomb. Won't it be a happy thing to see it way, way down on the Amazon list?
Not only will I never buy this book, I won't get it out at the library, I won't touch it, and if it is in front of me I will avert my eyes.

[EllaMinnow]

I certainly won't.

And I'm cynical enough to think that they are pushing it out the week before the release of the long-awaited new Harry Potter book so that they can blame the poor showing on that.

[Hildy]

I guess the same people who bought Michael Moore's book. And then she'll go on Oprah .... and will guaranteed a place on the NY Times Bestseller list for a long time. I hope she fall on her head and goes into a coma.

[nothingnew]

I might buy the tape to send to friends who in certain emergencies, might need to induce vomiting.

FMCDH

[Cicero]

This book will get a ton of free publicity from the clinton-kissing press. And no doubt will be pushed by the book clubs. I hope it sells like that book of algore's.

I have a feeling they may end up with 900,000 odd copies on the remainder shelves. I sure hope so. They paid the advance so Viacom could get regulatory favors, so Simon & Shuster will have no complaint coming if they lose their shirts on the book.

[spodefly]

[BossLady]

"she won't tell the seamy slimy stuff."

Is there anything BUT slime in her living history?????? Wonder how she got over 500 pages without any of this stuff in the book.

[martin_fierro]

More like, "Living His Story."

[The Wizard]

they are never going to legimately sell all these books....I cannot imigaine anyone I know who would buy it, or even read it for free....

[Brilliant]

Haven't we all had just about enough of Clinton? Only if she admits the littany of Clinton conspiracies will I be interested in this book.

[ErnBatavia]

Could she have come up with a more egotistical title?

"Me"

[rockinonritalin]

Is anyone out there going to buy this?

Yes, left-wing knotheads...

In bulk.

[Nachum]

I fully expect to see these books on sale in a year at my local 99 cent store, right next to the one by the Menendez brothers...

[Paul Atreides]

Dear ___________,

Enclosed, you will find a copy of my book, Living
History. I would like to present this to you as a gift
in appreciation for all the years of support you have
given me. Please make out your check, for $5,000 to
HillPAC.

Sincerely,
HRC

[caisson71]

Not a chance!