What happened by scott mcclellan5/9/2023 ![]() In addition to selling McClellan this past week, we were also deeply involved with Benchgate, the firestorm caused by our plaintive email last week about the District inspector telling us that the 12-year-old bench was illegal and had to go. In the midst of all this frenzy, don't lose sight of Scott McClellan's author talk here, next Tuesday at 7 p.m. You may have seen the picture in the Washington Post showing the book on sale on our front table the New York Times and National Public Radio also carried stories about the McClellan book’s sales at Politics and Prose. ![]() For the next few days cameramen and reporters-everyone from Swiss TV to the Associated Press-were all over the place here. Until about noon we honored the embargo, but then a call came from Public Affairs, McClellan’s publisher, that they had dropped the embargo date and we could sell the book. Immediately, we were inundated by calls from reporters trying to find a copy of the book. What a week we've had! Bush press secretary Scott McClellan's new exposé, WHAT HAPPENED, was not supposed to go on sale until June 2, but a Politico journalist bought the embargoed book from a Washington bookstore (not us) and scooped it online last Wednesday, May 28. ![]() ![]() Barbara Carpenter looks at former Bush press secretary Scott McClellan's memoir at Politics and Prose in Washington. ![]()
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