Posted on 09/25/2001 8:33:01 PM PDT by TLBSHOW
XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX TUE SEPT 25, 2001 21:25:37 ET XXXXX
PUBLISHER DECIDES TO GO FORWARD WITH BARBARA OLSON'S BOOK
**Exclusive**
Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc. announced today it would proceed with the publication of Barbara Olson's new book detailing the last weeks of the Clinton presidency. It will be released on October 22.
Olson, who was killed in the hijacked plane that was crashed into the Pentagon by terrorists on September 11, had finished the book just days before her death. Alfred S. Regnery, President and Publisher of Regnery Publishing, said the publisher had originally planned to start printing the book on September 13. But after learning of Olson's death, Regnery put the printing on hold in order to confer with her family and to decide whether or not to proceed.
"We were all very upset over Barbara's death," Regnery said. "Barbara was a good friend of mine and of the company's, and many of us had worked very closely with her on this new book, and on her previous book. We were deeply saddened when we heard the news.
"But everyone we talked to, including her husband Ted, agreed that Barbara would have wanted this book published," Regnery continued. "She was an individual of commitment and principle, who held strong opinions, and who never hesitated to state exactly what she believed. Barbara never shied away from controversy but was both passionate and courageous, even in her very last moments on that airplane. Her family, friends and colleagues all thought she would be pleased to know that even terrorists could not keep her opinions from being known. In fact, she never would have countenanced the thought that terrorism could still her voice or cancel her work.
"We've also heard from her fans all over the country -- readers of her last book, and people who had seen her on TV or heard her on the radio. We've received a deluge of phone calls, letters and e-mails urging us not to cancel the book," said Regnery.
The book, entitled The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House, gives Olson's inside-look at the pardons, the late-night executive orders, eleventh-hour appointments, unseemly gifts, unsavory property deals, and all the other abuses of power that took place during the last few weeks of the Clinton presidency.
Olson's previous book Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton was published by Regnery Publishing in October 1999 and spent nine weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list.
The Final Days will be in stores by mid-October. Regnery has arranged for each book to carry an envelope inviting readers to contribute to the Barbara K. Olson Memorial Scholarship Fund.
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"She was an individual of commitment and principle, who held strong opinions, and who never hesitated to state exactly what she believed.....Her family, friends and colleagues all thought she would be pleased to know that even terrorists could not keep her opinions from being known. In fact, she never would have countenanced the thought that terrorism could still her voice or cancel her work.
I am really looking forward to this book.
History is not going to be at all kind to Snopes Clinton.
The Last Days will be Hell To Pay...
Bush's highest ever Presidential approval ratings, nomination for the nobel peace prize, now this. Can you even imagine being a fly on the wall at the clinton households?
But the mood of the country and the polls have convinced him that there's a real market for Ms. Olson's work. I look forward to reading it.
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