He began circulating a book manuscript titled "Climbing the Mountain".
In fact, he's circulating a book proposal called "The Little Kitchen".
Browbeat, Slate's culture blog, reported on Tuesday that Mr. Lehrer was circulating a book.
"Circulating a book to students about making a bomb would be the wrong thing to do," he said.
A film producer who chronicled Arnold Schwarzenegger's rise to fame as a champion bodybuilder in the 1970's circulated a book proposal six years ago that quoted the young Mr. Schwarzenegger expressing admiration for Adolf Hitler.
One old boyfriend circulated a book proposal saying that he'd smoked crack with her during a five-month affair; in 1990, her half sister sold the story of Oprah's teen-age pregnancy (the baby was born prematurely, and died five weeks later) to the National Enquirer for nineteen thousand dollars.
A controversial Texan evangelical, David Barton, has sought to invoke Jefferson in support of his view that America was explicitly founded as a Christian country; but in 2012 a Christian publishing house withdrew at the last moment from circulating a book by Mr Barton on that theme, on grounds that the accuracy of his arguments was open to question.
He has circulated a "green book" to ministers with tips on how to curb their departments' spending.
In the experiments, a library pays an annual fee to circulate a collection of digital books for a year and netLibrary passes a portion of the fees to publishers.
Through the first years of the century, Stratemeyer and his publishers engaged in an epic publicity effort that included buying up lists of children's names and addresses, circulating a catalogue of books, and seizing every chance to cross-promote his books.
When ID, at Mr. Parker's behest, according to Ms. Bush, began circulating copies of a book that was being used to question the veracity of "The Social Network" — Scott Rudin, the film's producer, confronted Ms. Bush.
