Donna Brazile's choice of literary agents is interesting

[ehrnst]

Hachette Books has acquired Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns that Put Donald Trump in the White House by former DNC chair and noted Democratic Party strategist Donna Brazile. The book will be published November 7, 2017, a year after the presidential election of 2016.

Described by the publisher as “equal parts campaign thriller, memoir, and roadmap for the future,” Hachette said the book will examine the “missteps, miscalculation and crimes of 2016.”

The book was acquired in a deal for world rights by Hachette Books senior editor Paul Whitlatch, who will edit the book. Brazile was represented by Keith Urbahn and Matt Latimer, partners at Javelin, a D.C.-based literary, media and creative agency."

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/book-deals/article/74212-hachette-to-publish-donna-brazile-book-on-2016-election.html

Keith Urbahn is president and founding partner of Javelin. For five years Keith worked for former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, most recently serving as his chief of staff. He helped oversee the publication of Rumsfeld’s 1 New York Times bestselling memoir. Previously he worked in the United States Senate for Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and as a Pentagon speechwriter.

http://javelindc.com/teammates/keith/

Matt Latimer is a New York Times bestselling author with more than a decade of experience at senior levels in Washington, D.C. Latimer served as deputy director of speechwriting to President George W. Bush and chief speechwriter to former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. He was a senior communications staffer for Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and Senator Jon Kyl.

http://javelindc.com/teammates/matt-latimer/

[dalton99a]

1. It's downright fascinating

[NurseJackie]

21. Kissy kissy! (Get ready to barf!)

[Achilleaze]

2. Can't wait till this hits the bookstore remainder tables

...so I can walk by and ignore it in person*


* props to whatever unknown DU sage first offered this classic review comment for the latest tragic waste of trees to make paper.

[wishstar]

3. Not surprising they rolled out her book release excerpts right at election time to demoralize Dems

Repub operatives are skilled at dividing and weakening Dems and I'm sure she was paid generously to let them set the timeline to suit their agenda.

[oasis]

4. Yup, with Brazile in position to say, "I told ya so" after a Dem defeat. nt

[ehrnst]

5. Along with others whose political narrative benefits when Dems lose. (nt)

[emulatorloo]

6. Yeah she's on Tucker Carlson's show tonight.

Link to tweet

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Link to tweet

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[ehrnst]

11. That's where a lot of her book sales are going to come from, I'm betting. (nt)

[emulatorloo]

7. Nailed it n/t

[tavernier]

8. Bingo. N/T

[Paladin]

9. When Brazile showed up on Chris Hayes' MSNBC show last night, I switched over to CNN.

Ms. Brazile has nothing left that I care to hear.

[ehrnst]

10. Last night's victories didn't promote the innuendo and message that her book hawks

No wonder she's pushing it on Tucker Carlson's show.

[Hortensis]

25. Me neither, Paladin. She wants attention

but won't get mine. Or shows when they give her a platform.

She's trashed her career on the left, and she won't be the first or 50th person of bad character to look for a new career on the "other" side. David Brock's permanently off my list also. He started out with hit-job books against Hillary and Democrats similar to Brazile's, just as an agent for the right.

[Paladin]

26. I hope her remaining time in public is brief.

There. I even managed to be civil about it.

[Hortensis]

28. :) Very restrained.

[jrthin]

27. Ditto. nt

[moda253]

12. I still don't give a shit about Donna

she can rot and die for all I care

[delisen]

13. Brazile working for the Republican Party w/o announcing switch

Similar to Putin waging undeclared war against democracy in America

[ehrnst]

17. Looks like it could be possible. Joe Lieberman part deux? (nt)

[UTUSN]

14. Years ago she was proud of being pals with KKKarl and another wingnut hatchet jerk

[MineralMan]

15. Her choice of a ghost-writer was questionable, too.

You get what you pay for, Donna.

[ehrnst]

16. Hachette marketed it as equal parts campaign thriller,

memoir, and roadmap for the future."

Maybe that's why they instructed the ghost writer to use a Harlequin Romance style.

[emulatorloo]

31. "Campaign Thriller"

[politicaljunkie41910]

18. I've seen her in three interviews now in which she refused to acknowledge that she had said that

the system was rigged. She now calls it a 'cancer'. In the first two interviews Sunday and Monday, she kept saying that the DNC was broke and she needed money to run a campaign but never acknowledged that the agreement Hillary had with the DNC was for the General Election so she left that out there hanging and Hillary hung out there as Trumps battering ram. Today on Morning Joe she finally acknowledged that the agreement was for the General Election not the Primary, and she also acknowledged that the DNC was broke and needed money to run a campaign and Hillary agreed to and paid all the bills for the DNC. I think that makes Hillary a Hero and Donna a Zero. I would think Hillary should have been just as flummoxed to be one of the Democratic Party's nominees and to learn that the party was dead broke. I'm just curious whether Donna Brazile asked Bernie to pay the DNC's debt off and if so what was his response.

[ehrnst]

19. Well put. (nt)

[NurseJackie]

20. She's a very BAD liar. (And she's off her fucking rocker!)

#Sad

[ehrnst]

23. I have to wonder What made her seek out these right wingers to represent her.

Lack of job opportunities at this point in her life?

[treestar]

22. Hmmm rather strange

[brer cat]

24. Well I guess this explains a lot.

If she hired two republicans to represent her, it was going to be about as fair and balanced as FAUXNews.

[nolabear]

29. I know quite a few writers and agents and who thinks you will make them money is everything.

At this level it's all about product and who you want to be connected to for future products and references. The fact that she's being represented by those people means a LOT. I'd love to know if they were her first choices or if she was turned down otherwise. She said on an interview that (as is usual with non-fiction) she shopped a proposal and took an advance, so she had to have let them know what her intentions were.

I get madder and madder at her, but I suspect she'll find she's a puff of air and won't work again for anyone but Fox or some other anti-Democratic bunch. And they won't respect her.

What a bummer.

[MineralMan]

30. When does she sign with Fox News.

She's gonna need a job shortly.

Watch for it.

[Jim Lane]

32. I haven't read Brazile's book but Latimer's is worth reading.

Most of Speech-Less: Tales of a White House Survivor is an inside account of his time as a speechwriter for Donald Rumsfeld, Robert Gates, and George W. Bush. You don't have to like those people to appreciate a look at the workings of the process -- workings that are sometimes very different from what the principals wanted the public to believe.

At the end of the book, Latimer hints, but does not expressly state, that he voted for Obama in 2008.

[yardwork]

33. If it walks like a duck...