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Title: Barack, Michelle Obama Could Bag Record $32 Million for Memoirs
Post by: mystery-ak on January 19, 2014, 11:31:16 pm
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/01/19/Obamas-Could-Bag-Record-32-Million-For-Memoirs (http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/01/19/Obamas-Could-Bag-Record-32-Million-For-Memoirs)

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 by Wynton Hall 19 Jan 2014, 10:03 AM PDT

Obama biographer and New Yorker editor David Remnick reported on Sunday that First Lady Michelle Obama is already fast at work on her memoirs, which famed literary agent Andrew Wylie says could fetch $12 million.

Remnick quotes Obama strategist David Axelrod as saying that the president will most assuredly publish his presidential memoirs upon leaving office. “Now, that’s a slam dunk,” said Axelrod. Wylie says Barack Obama’s memoirs could command a $17 to $20 million literary advance, the most ever for a nonfiction book.

The president's best friend and Chicago businessman Marty Nesbitt said writing another book would be easy for Obama.

“I don’t see him locked up in a room writing all the time. His capacity to crank stuff out is amazing,” Nesbeitt said. “When he was writing his second book, he would say, ‘I’m gonna get up at seven and write this chapter—and at nine we’ll play golf.’ I would think no, it’s going to be a lot later, but he would knock on my door at nine and say, ‘Let’s go.’”
Title: Re: Barack, Michelle Obama Could Bag Record $32 Million for Memoirs
Post by: EC on January 20, 2014, 09:57:36 am
Dammit. I need a better agent.
Title: Re: Barack, Michelle Obama Could Bag Record $32 Million for Memoirs
Post by: rangerrebew on January 20, 2014, 11:46:52 am
None of that money is coming from me. :patriot:
Title: Re: Barack, Michelle Obama Could Bag Record $32 Million for Memoirs
Post by: aligncare on January 20, 2014, 01:43:37 pm
I wouldn't pay $.32 for dinner with the Obamas, much less to read a memoir. What a god-awful evening that would be.
Title: Re: Barack, Michelle Obama Could Bag Record $32 Million for Memoirs
Post by: andy58-in-nh on January 20, 2014, 02:02:25 pm
I have little doubt that Obama simply cannot wait to pen his third autobiography.

He's just that important.

To him.
Title: Re: Barack, Michelle Obama Could Bag Record $32 Million for Memoirs
Post by: rangerrebew on January 20, 2014, 09:41:44 pm
I have little doubt that Obama simply cannot wait to pen his third autobiography.

You mean the third autobio that Bill Ayers wrote? :whistle:
Title: Re: Barack, Michelle Obama Could Bag Record $32 Million for Memoirs
Post by: andy58-in-nh on January 20, 2014, 09:53:37 pm
You mean the third autobio that Bill Ayers wrote? :whistle:

That's correct: "Fresh Prince of Bill Ayers, Part III: The Smog of Audacity".
Title: Re: Barack, Michelle Obama Could Bag Record $32 Million for Memoirs
Post by: LottieDah on January 20, 2014, 09:55:11 pm
Wouldn't that make the Obama's part of the 1%?
Title: Re: Barack, Michelle Obama Could Bag Record $32 Million for Memoirs
Post by: Rapunzel on January 20, 2014, 09:56:03 pm
Wouldn't that make the Obama's part of the 1%?

They already are, but of course no one ever talks about it.
Title: Re: Barack, Michelle Obama Could Bag Record $32 Million for Memoirs
Post by: DCPatriot on January 20, 2014, 09:56:03 pm
let me see......   :pondering:







Nope!   Still don't give a damn!