When Speechwriters Kiss And Tell

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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