D'day Rushes Book of Canned Bushie

by Rachel Deahl, PW Daily -- Publishers Weekly, 10/19/2005

Sometimes getting your pink slip can be a good thing. That's the case with Bruce Bartlett, a now-former senior fellow at the conservative Dallas-based think tank National Center for Policy Analysis. Bartlett, an ardent Bush supporter in 2000 who was also a member of the George H.W. Bush Treasury department, was given his walking papers on Monday after his boss, president of the organization John C. Goodman, read the manuscript of his upcoming book, The Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy.

After The New York Times reported the news of Bartlett's firing, Doubleday (which is pubbing Impostor) quickly bumped the book's release date from April 4 to February 28. The imprint has also upped the book's print run from 30,000 copies to 50,000.

Nicole Dewey, associate director of publicity at Doubleday, says her "phone rang off the hook" on Tuesday with calls from all the major papers and talk shows. Noting that the book has now become news, Dewey says "the story [Bartlett] is telling in the book and his own story have become one and the same." And that is clearly enough, in Doubleday's eyes, to bring in quite a few more book sales.

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