Condoleezza Rice agrees to a three-book deal

[babylonsister]

:eyes:

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/29333317/

Condoleezza Rice agrees to a three-book deal
Contract will begin with a memoir about her time in the Bush White House

Rice's deal is worth at least $2.5 million, according to two publishing officials with knowledge of the negotiations.

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has agreed to a three-book deal with Crown Publishers, starting with a memoir about her years in the administration of President George W. Bush.

"Rice will combine candid narrative and acute analysis to tell the story of her time in the White House and as America's top diplomat, and her role in protecting American security and shaping foreign policy during the extraordinary period from 2001-2009," according to a statement issued Sunday by Crown, a division of Random House Inc. Crown also published then-Sen. Barack Obama's "The Audacity of Hope."

Rice's book is planned for 2011.

[Captain Hilts]

1. THREE books worth of her Professor Irwin Corey routine?!? Yeeetch!

[gratuitous]

2. Title Suggestions!

"No one could have anticipated" The REAL story behind Bush v. Gore and the incomprehensible one-off Supreme Court ruling.

"The Smoking Gun Becomes a Mushroom Cloud" How hype can replace hard intelligence when you really, really want to go to war.

and

"Peace in the Middle East in the Last Six Months of an Eight Year Administration" Problems a millennium in the making can be licked in six months and how the MBA President can show all you dirty fucking hippies how it's done.

[Captain Hilts]

8. "Security Briefings I Should Have Read." nt

[Faux pas]

14. 'I Was George Bush's Pet Goat.' n/t

[denem]

3. "Candid narrative and acute analysis" "Bin Laden determined to ... "attack inside US"

Condi : Gee. Wow. Do Nothing.

[glowing]

4. She should be writing them from jail.

[zbdent]

5. So, she's going to read three books to her husb-, er, former boss?

[Captain Hilts]

9. Said at a private NYT reception, MoDo must have been threatened NOT to use it in a column. nt

[izquierdista]

6. Will one be a shoe catalog?

Jus' askin'. :shrug:

[YOY]

7. Coming to shelves of FReepers soon!

All so they can point to the unread book and say "I ain't no racist!"

(That and bargain bins everywhere.)

[sinkingfeeling]

10. Does she think she's Winston Churchill?

[Captain Hilts]

11. Evidently...

[NV Whino]

12. Terrific!

Now I can save three times the money by not buying them.

[miyazaki]

13. shaped foreign policy into a giant dildo. n/t

[madokie]

15. That, insert word I won't use in polite company, hasn't got 3 books in her.

I did say books and hasn't now.:-)


add: in case you didn't notice this was said with post #13 in mind :-)

[Johonny]

16. I'm sure a RW ghost writer will write them for her

her job is to make sure the book has a good cover.

[madokie]

17. She's fucked then

maybe they'll put a picture of her ass on it, maybe that would have some redeeming value, who knows.

[otohara]

18. BREAKING NEWS: She Accomplished NOTHING

pages should be blank.

[TexasObserver]

19. Bulk sales will make up most of the sales, of course.

Desperate rightwing groups will be buying up her wretched excuses, so that the real sales will not be known. Like Bush, she actually thinks she did something for eight years besides dumb down everything she touched.

[Occam Bandage]

20. Why bother reading them? They're just historical documents.

[Javaman]

21. fine. if she wants to pen door stops for the mouth breathing repuke masses

knock her self out with that.

As long as she no longer has any say in the policy of the country (not that she had much anyway).

[miyazaki]

22. a line of cookbooks called "intelligence baking" ? n/t

[Canuckistanian]

23. "How to Accesorize During a Catastrophe"

Vols. I, II and III

[Book Lover]

24. "Candid"? C'mon, guys! We all know that's not possible

So stop the snow job, willya? I do think it's important for the historical record to know what she knows, but it ain't coming out in no Crown book.