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Rumsfeld Looking to Publish Book
Talk is rife in the publishing industry that former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld will write a memoir defending the military strategy behind the war in Iraq. Rumsfeld has already visited about a half-dozen New York publishing houses with an outline of his book, and is seeking to gauge how much inside information he would have to divulge to land a lucrative book deal, the New York Sun reports. Anthony Ziccardi, vice president of Threshold, a conservative imprint, said Rumsfeld’s memoir would most likely have a six-figure press run. "At the end of the day, it comes down to what he’s going to say and how much of an insider’s account it would be,” Ziccardi told the Sun.
Story Continues Below Brad Miner, editor in chief of another conservative imprint, American Compass, said Rumsfeld would have to write candidly about his experiences and about the people with whom he served. Rumsfeld was Secretary of Defense under President Gerald Ford in the 1970s, as well under President Bush from 2001 to December 2006, and is the only person to have held the position for two non-consecutive terms. Craig Shirley of the publicity firm Shirley & Banister told the Sun that Rumsfeld’s book would likely create more of a buzz than a recent book by former CIA Director George Tenet.
But Peter Osnos of PublicAffairs books, which is publishing a biography of Rumsfeld, cautioned: "People don’t want to read a justification of the war all over again.”
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