Bush Decides on Book Title, Random House Decides to Buy It
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While the financial details were not revealed–sources says it’s a $7 million dollar advance–former lame duck POTUS George Bush did let the media know he’d reached some decisions about the book he’s writing. He decided to sell it to Crown, a division of Random House and it won’t be an autobiography/memoir. And he’s decided on a title: Decision Points.
The decisive Bush, who once dubbed himself The Decider–gee, maybe that was a typo and should have been The Divider?–said in an interview:
I want people to understand the environment in which I was making decisions. I want people to get a sense of how decisions were made and I want people to understand the options that were placed before me.
Some of the deicisions he’ll cover include:
*giving up drinking
*picking Dick Cheney as his vice president
*sending troops to Iraq
* claiming "mission accomplished"
* choosing My Pet Goat over Green Eggs and Ham
* which way is right side up
It is sad – a former U.S. President, writing his first book, feels a powerful need to explain to the world that he was the Decider. When other insiders have already let it out of the bag – Rove and Cheney were the deciders. But that title isn’t as self-congratulatory: “Sock Puppet in Chief”.