Now that he's been a senator an entire week, Scott Brown plans a book

After seven gee-whiz days in the United States Senate (see video below), Scott Brown has decided to follow in the literary footsteps of another once unknown state senator from the other party and write a premature memoir about his life so far.

At this point the Massachusetts Republican (gee, that's a strange word combo to type without adding Mitt Romney) would be expected to produce a fairly short tome, collecting all the memories of his first 168 hours in one of the world's most elite, ego-filled clubs of esteemed talkers. He could include his victory speech, as we did here.

But his new spokeswoman, Gail Gitcho, formerly of the rogue Republican National Committee under Michael Steele, who's also written a book like Sarah Palin and Romney and Karl Rove, says the 50-year-old Brown has been approached by many people to tell his life story.

(What is it, btw, about politics that people must say they've been approached by unnamed others to both seek election and write a book? My arugula!

(Why not just say, I want the office and I want to tell a self-serving story to make some extra dough during my 15 minutes of fame? It's not like these volumes are statements of audacious modesty after all.)

Brown is kind of behind his college-age daughter Ayla, who's already got her own book out and been promoting it on morning shows and singing as she did on "American Idol" a while back.

Anyway, Gitcho says Brown will work with a collaborator. And to be honest, with all the snow days in D.C. recently and Harry Reid's impossible schedule, they haven't exactly been making history every hour on the famous Hill of Gab. So publisher and publication date are as yet unset.

Maybe Brown will take some of the book proceeds and buy a new pickup truck since, at last report, his old one had more than 201,000 miles on it.

-- Andrew Malcolm

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Comments

[trinket59]

So the writer(s) of this article would reject a book deal offered to them due to not having accomplished much that is nationally noteworthy? We do live in a free market (at least for now) country, and publishers (whose job it is to make money) think it's a good idea to exploit (not necessarily a negative) Sen. Brown's notoriety for their and the Senator's financial gain.

[Tom]

what, no comments again? I guess I'm the only fool reading these 'articles'. At least I'm not fool enough to purchase a congressional/senate book by someone who want to toot their own horn and make a mint (like I haven't given them enough pork over the years). You forgot to mention the high count of congressmen and senators who have books out - its like mtv where every song HAS to have a video out or its not a song.

[Craig]

Barack Obama wasn't even an elected official when he published his first book in 1994, Dreams From My Father. Did you or your newspaper use the same sarcastic tone in announcing Obama's "premature" autobiography, whose "only" noteworthy accomplishment was becoming the first African-American elected president of the Harvard Law Review in 1990--five years before? The audacity of these authors!

I certainly want to know more about Senator Scott Brown, how he pulled off one of the greatest upsets in U.S. political history in just a few short weeks. I want to know about what it was about him that captured the hearts and minds of a state where the number of registered Democratic voters outnumber the Republicans 3-to-1, kicking Kennedy's seat and the mythical mandate for health-care reform to the curb and changing the political landscape in Washington literally overnight.

What do you think is an appropriate amount of time to wait to hear Brown's story (so far)? I want to know what makes this guy tick, and what is making America ticked-off. Gee-whiz, don't you?

[carol]

A lot of Americans will want to read this book because of his historical (YES, HISTORICAL)election. People are interested just like they were with Obama after his memorable speech at the 2004 Democratic convention. You should give the guy a break. I do think he will have a lot more than 15 minutes of fame. You know the Democratic party is chopping at the bits for the next senatorial election and the MSM will be there covering every move. Right now Senator Brown is a rock star.....just like Obama was in 2004.

[Me]

How about calling it "Dreams from my mother", or "The Audacity of Change"?

[Camron Barth]

The headline of this article is so unfair! Barack Obama wrote his books BEFORE he was elected to the U.S. senate!