NEW YORK (AP) -March 28, 2008
The deal is worth $1.35 million and nine publishers competed for
the book, currently untitled, according to agent Todd Shuster of
the Zachary Shuster Harmsworth Literary Agency. Patrick will donate
some of his royalties to A Better Chance, a nonprofit educational
organization that helped Patrick attend the Milton Academy, south
of Boston.
"Drawing upon his extraordinary journey from Chicago's Wabash
Avenue to the Massachusetts State House on Boston's fabled Beacon
Hill, Gov. Patrick will offer in his book a series of lessons and
insights on life and leadership," according to a statement
released Friday by Broadway Books, an imprint of Random House, Inc.
"Among the subjects he will address are self-truth, grace,
faith, courage, and compassion, as well as the importance of
forgiveness, and embracing optimism and hope to make good outcomes
possible."
Obama, a black Illinois senator who wrote "Dreams From My
Father" and "Audacity of Hope," is similar to Patrick in several
ways: Both are Democrats who graduated from Harvard Law School,
have Chicago ties and ended up seeking elective office on the
strength of their backgrounds.
Patrick, 51, was out of state last week when his casino gambling
plan, a cornerstone of his economic program, went down to defeat,
leading to speculations about his whereabouts: He was in New York,
shopping his book.
Patrick briefly became an issue in the presidential campaign
when it was discovered that Obama had been using some of his lines,
saying that while words matter, actions mean more, leading Obama's
rival, Sen. Hillary Clinton, to call him the candidate of "change
you can Xerox."
Patrick, one of Obama's strongest supporters, dismissed the
charges as "sort of a tempest in a teapot."
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