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Dan Rather memoir.
Dan Rather is in the mood for “Summing Up.”
The former CBS anchor and reporter has a deal with Grand Central Publishing for a memoir tentatively scheduled to come out in 2012. The publisher said “Summing Up” covers his long career in journalism, from the John F. Kennedy assassination and Watergate to the Iraq War and his final years at CBS, when a disputed story about President George W. Bush’s military service led to Rather’s departure in 2006.
“I just felt the time had come for me to sum up my career in a candid memoir, and now I feel the time is right,” Rather said in a statement. “Plus, with the changing climate — and attitude — about news and journalists, I feel I can give readers an honest perspective on the present, and, more important, on the future of news.”
The 79-year-old Rather, known for his confrontational style and for being the object of unending criticism by conservatives, has also written a memoir about his childhood. “I Remember: Growing Up in Texas” was published in 1991.
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Hell’s Corner, by David Baldacci
Oliver Stone was counting seconds, an exercise that had always calmed him. And he needed to be calm. He was meeting with someone tonight. Someone very important. And Stone didn’t quite know how it was going to go. He did know one thing for certain. He was not going to run. He was through running.
Stone had just returned from Divine, Virginia, where Abby Riker, a woman he’d met, lived. Abby had been the first woman Stone had feelings for since he’d lost his wife three decades prior. Despite their obvious fondness for one another, Abby would not leave Divine, and Stone could not live there. For better or worse, much of him belonged to this town, even with all the pain it had caused.
That pain might become even more intense. The communication he’d received an hour after returning home had been explicit. They would come for him at midnight. No debate was allowed, no negotiation suffered through, no chance of any compromise. The party on the other end of the equation always dictated the terms.
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