nypost.com - 1/6/2009
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Last updated: 1:45 am January 6, 2009 Posted: 1:36 am January 6, 2009 First Lady Laura Bush snagged a seven-figure deal to write her life story for the Scribner imprint of Simon & Schuster. Bush is said to have received an advance of $1.6 million, according to one well-placed publishing source ...
blogs.abcnews.com - 1/5/2009
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ABC News' Yunji de Nies Reports: First Lady
Laura Bush has found a publisher, and is set
to release a memoir next year. Publishing house Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster Inc., has acquired the rights to the first...
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Laura Bush to Release Memoir Next Year
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Report: Laura Bush Snags $1.6 Million Advance
The Page by Mark Halperin —
... NY Post says the first lady's book advance is less than a quarter of Hillary Clinton's take for “Living History.”
Nancy Reagan and Barbara Bush both received advances of about $2 million. ...
First Lady Gets Small Book Advance
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
According to the New York Post, First Lady Laura Bush received an advance of just $1.6 million for her book deal announced yesterday -- far less than the $8 million Hillary Clinton received for her memoir, Living History.
Laura Bush’s memoir fetches less than Hillary Clinton, Nancy Reagan, and Barbara Bush’s.
Think Progress —
... that it would publish the memoirs of Laura Bush in 2010. Today, the New York Post reports that the First Lady “received an advance of $1.6 million” on the book deal, far less than the several million that it was ...
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