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Anthony Weiner Is Egomaniacal, TV Obsessed: Book

POLITICO’s Mike Allen ‘s Playbook morning email today has the juicy details of a new book by Bush administration chronicler Robert Draper.

Included in the morning email are details about a certain Queens congressman locals are well affiliated with:

“[Rep. Anthony Weiner] would enter in his office in the Rayburn Building screaming at the top of his lungs, ‘Why the fuck am I not on MSNBC?!’ When the health care debate kicked in, Anthony Weiner became the one-man standard-bearer for the single-payer system. He was now on MSNBC every week, sometimes every day – to the point where he was carrying his own makeup kit. (Or rather, his press guy was.) But because he believed that a fighter should also go into the enemy camp, he was also the designated liberal brawler on Fox. He rather enjoyed his screaming matches with Fox hosts Sean Hannity and Megyn Kelly. It burned bile, he liked to say. Read More

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A Campaign Book for Reshma Saujani?

It has become a staple of presidential campaigns for candidates to publish a book before hitting the trail, and we may now be seeing this for the first time in down-ballot local races.

Ben Smith had the scoop today on Reshma Saujani publishing a book titled Women Who Don’t Wait in Line, about female leaders. The book is one of the first from Amazon’s new publishing venture, and is expected to come out in April of 2013, just in time for the citywide primaries to pick up. Ms. Saujani has been mentioned as a potential candidate for public advocate if  Bill de Blasio runs for mayor so it is not hard to imagine her doing book signings in key neighborhoods. Read More