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Chris Good - Chris Good is a political reporter for ABC News. He was previously an associate editor at The Atlantic and a reporter for The Hill.

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When Speechwriters Kiss And Tell

By Chris Good

Sep 22 2009, 10:19 AM ET Comment

When the sun rises over our capital city this morning, its denizens will awake to a truly novel tale: The aggrieved ex-staffer--wait for it!--disillusioned by Washington. The tome out today is by former Bush speechwriter Matt Latimer, who describes the White House as "less like Aaron Sorkin's The West Wing and more like The Office." In Mr. Latimer's hands, it reads more like "The Princess Diaries," full of hurt feelings and high-schoolish drama...

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