Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has signed a three-memoir contract with Crown reportedly worth at least two and a half million dollars.
By Victoria Loustalot February 23 , 2009Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has signed a three-memoir contract with Crown reportedly worth at least two and a half million dollars.
Most of Fried's writings — a classic text on the theory of contract, a memoir of the Reagan revolution, a primer on constitutional law — have made the case in one way or another for his credo of laissez-faire individualism, and his new book is no exception.
The bare-bones facts of this tender memoir are these: Shreve contracts paralytic polio when she is 1, leaving her right side largely paralyzed, though she is eventually able to walk with braces.
MEMOIR TIME I have a contract, and the book has to be done by December.
2011: Julian Assange tells Canongate he wants to cancel his lucrative contract for a memoir, although a draft has already been written.
In 2012, he received a contract for his memoir, worth at least eight hundred thousand dollars, and yet, even with his rising income, he cashed out sixty-eight thousand dollars from a retirement account, paying a heavy tax penalty.
On Aug. 4 there was a review by Sandy Balfour, who has written his own bridge book, "Vulnerable in Hearts: A Memoir of Fathers, Sons, and Contract Bridge" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2006).
The News Corporation has made other moves that seemed designed to curry favor with the Chinese leadership, including the removal of BBC newscasts from Star TV in 1994 and the decision by HarperCollins, the publishing arm of the News Corporation, to cancel a contract for a memoir by Chris Patten, the last colonial governor of Hong Kong.
When we lie, either in "fiction" or in "memoir," we're violating that contract.
He secures a book contract for his memoirs with Mark Twain's publishing company.
