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Writer-in-chief
The title is deceptively simple for a book destined to be the biggest release of the summer: My Life, the long-awaited memoir by Bill Clinton, will go on sale in late June, according to publisher Alfred A. Knopf. If the spokesperson at Knopf hedged a bit on the publication date, you couldn't blame himafter all, Clinton hadn't turned in his completed manuscript when the announcement was made. The famously late president was writing furiously until the last minute, regaling friends with telephone readings of selected passages along the way, according to the New York Times. Knopf president Sonny Mehta describes the book as "the fullest and most nuanced account of a presidency ever written." The publisher has scheduled a first-printing of 1.5 million copies, which tops the one million copy first-printing of wife Hillary's memoir, Living History.
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