Republican Rhetoric
by Judy Quinn -- Publishers Weekly, 5/12/1997
Pocket editor Dan Slater is considering a rumored high-six-figure offer for the tentatively titled Spin, by Tom Lowe, described in the April 28 issue of U.S. News &World Report as "a Republican Primary Colors." Lowe, a former campaign aide to California Congressman Michael Huffington, reportedly includes characters in his book that resemble Huffington, his wife, Arianna, as well as a pugnacious campaign manager who’s a shoo-in for Ed Rollins. And over at Hyperion, editor Jennifer Barth has acquired (in a reported $500,000 deal) the first book by political commentor Laura Ingraham (infamous for posing in a leopard miniskirt on a New York Times Magazine cover). Ingraham is expected to write a hybrid of Rush Limbaugh's The Way Things Ought to Be and Naomi Wolf's The Beauty Myth, with publication in '98 or '99.
