Your Bookshelf Update: Plouffe, Palin, Other Tomes Incoming

If, for some reason, you were ever under the illusion that politics is a thankless job, you might consider the steady deluge of six and seven figure book deals being landed by those who have walked our nation’s corridors of power. Indeed, it seems that one guaranteed perk of political service (or even a momentary brush with it) is the promise of a hefty advance to tell all–or selective bits, anyway– of what it was like behind the scenes.