[Hillary] Clinton’s book raises question

The Hill ^ | 5/7/03 | Open Secrets

[Jean S]

Her long-awaited White House book, Living History, won’t be in stores for another month, but there’s already speculation about how much writing help Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) got from her two “assistants,” author Maryanne Vollers and former Washington Post reporter Lissa Muscatine.

Clinton’s publisher, Simon & Schuster, which has embargoed the book until its June 9 release date, would not say if Vollers and Muscatine receive cover credit or even a mention in the acknowledgements.

But the pair could hardly fare any worse than Clinton’s collaborator on It Takes a Village, Barbara Feinman Todd. A veteran in the as-told-to trade, Todd had worked with former Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.) and Washington Post authors Ben Bradlee and his wife, Sally Quinn, on their respective books. Her contract to help Clinton with It Takes a Village called for an expression of thanks and a payment of $120,000.

All went well until just before the book was published, when Todd learned her name didn’t appear in the acknowledgements. Then she began hearing talk that she’d been fired from the project, which was untrue. Later, when it was time to collect the final $30,000 installment of her collaboration fee, she was told the White House didn’t want her to be paid.

A few phone calls to Simon & Schuster from powerful Washington friends, including the Post’s Bob Woodward, one of her clients, finally got Todd a check for her work. The publisher also agreed to pay her Clinton-related legal bills.

Afterward, said Todd, she continued receiving Christmas cards from the Clintons but her name was always misspelled.

[TexanToTheCore]

It's probaly a recent picture. Air brush artists are really good and the techniques used to give her a different face go back all the way to the thirties. Many actresses owe their career to airbrush artists.

[My Favorite Headache]

She can't die quick enough

[Eala]

Did they address her as Frau Tod?

Oof!

[My Favorite Headache]

I have a feeling this is Hillary's book:

[Patriotic Bostonian]

I made that same remark (she slept her way to the top) to a liberal former co-worker and friend, I thought, and I haven't heard from her since. This was back in 1994.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Re your hilarious pic in post 24: That's not precisely BS. See the udders? But its close enough for a description of what I expect Hillary's book to contain!

[My Favorite Headache]

LMAO...zackly!!!!!

[anniegetyourgun]

The truth hurts...especially for libs, as it is so foreign to them.