Donna Brazile on DNC email leaks - This Week
Donna Brazile, theinterim DNC chair, and her posseof power players are set to pen a book together about their tight friendship and inspiring personal journeys for St. Martins Press.
The book is tentatively titled The Colored Girls,a name the fivesomegave themselves years ago. Members in the clique areBrazile; top Hillary Clinton aide, Minyon Moore; chief executive of the Democraticconvention, Leah Daughtry; director of the conventions podium operations, Yolanda Caraway; and Bill Clintons chief of staff, Tina Flournoy. The group will write with the aid of a collaborator.
Itsthe story of their extraordinary work behind the scenes over the course ofnearly four decades andthe extraordinary friendship that keeps them together, explained Gail Ross, the powerful Washington literary agent who is negotiatingthe books deal with St. Martins Press.Thebookscontract is still being negotiated, but Ross described it as substantial.
The Colored Girls will be part historic memoir and part political inspiration, tracking each womans intertwining journey up the Washington ladder. The five authors, said Ross, have made a habit of holding the door open for other women and people of color in the political arena. For years, theyve been urged to write a book together that melds the political and the personal.
Peopleread books for two reasons, either to get smarter about a particular topicorto escape, said Ross, and in this case youre getting smarter and being inspired. Thoseare the best kinds of books.
The Colored Girls is expected to be on shelves in time for the 2018 midterm elections.
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