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Newsweek, June, 2008
“He is a rock star. It’s fantastic.”
News Corp. founder Rupert Murdoch, on Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, predicting a victory for the Illinois senator in November ’ s general election
“There are several kinds of Washington memoirs: ‘I Reveal the Honest Truth,’ a kiss-up-and-tell designed to settle scores … ‘I Was There at the Start,’ designed to make the author appear to be the linchpin of history. And, most tedious: ‘I Knew It Was a Terrible Mistake, But I Didn’t Mention It Until I Got a Book Contract’.”
An editorial in The New York Times, on former White House press secretary Scott McClellan ’ s new memoir, which, according to the Times, falls into the last category
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