http://voices.washingtonpost.com/political-bookworm/2011/02/in_rewritten_paperback_memoir.htmlPosted at 11:00 AM ET, 02/11/2011
In quietly rewritten memoir, Romney veers right
By Stephen Lowman
As things stand, it’s unclear if Mitt Romney can garner enough support to launch a credible bid for the presidency in 2012. But this week he can claim to have succeeded where so many other politicians have failed: getting people interested in a political memoir’s paperback release.
On Feb. 1, the paperback edition of Romney’s “No Apology” quietly hit shelves. It went unnoticed until Thursday, when The Boston Phoenix reported that there were “major” changes from the original hardcover released one year ago.
Romney places himself further to the right in the reworked sections. According to the Phoenix, in the original Romney wrote that the 2009 stimulus package would “accelerate the timing of the start of the recovery, but not as much as it could have.” Now he says that the stimulus package has been a “failure” and accuses the Obama administration of “economic missteps.”
A second example of the reworked passages, according to the Phoenix, concerns the health care reform legislation:
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