100 Memoirs

You don’t have to be a seer to recognize material for political celebrity memoir these days.  Everyone knew that Sarah Palin would ink a book deal (even though she would not ink the memoir herself).  Sure enough, HarperCollins signed her.
The August  issue of Vanity Fair includes an in-depth portrait of Palin by Todd S. Purdum–published [...]

As soon as Joe the Plumber erupted onto the political stage, it was inevitable the he, too, would become a memoirist.  At least, he has signed a book deal, something I predicted on October 18 here. Of course, he is not really writing his own memoir.  You can see what the BBC said here.  And [...]

Candidates rise or fall depending upon how voters feel about the stories they tell and the stories others tell about them.  That’s why in recent years political conventions often feature films with the candidate as the hero, and hastily-written biographies usually crop up on Amazon and in the bookstores.  John Kerry was savaged by a [...]