![]() ![]() ![]() Neither Barnett nor Bush would reveal the size of the Decision Points deal.īush insisted that the memoir would include self-criticism - "absolutely, yes" - but has long seemed more eager for the public to understand situations as they presented themselves to him at the time. ![]() "And what's best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain as the secretary of defence."īush sold his book proposal to Crown, part of Random House, by enlisting the services of the fabled Washington lawyer Robert Barnett, who negotiated a $15m advance for Bill Clinton's My Life, and whose client list makes publishers tremble when he calls: it includes Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Bob Woodward, Tony Blair, Queen Noor of Jordan, Laura Bush and Alan Greenspan.Ĭhoosing to avoid a high-profile bidding war - or, perhaps, an embarrassingly unenthusiastic bidding war - Barnett took the book directly to Crown, where it was bought by the executive responsible for publishing the blockbuster Da Vinci Code. "I hear the voices, and I read the front page, and I know the speculation, but I'm the decider, and I decide what is best," he said then. ![]() An unpopular Bush incurred mockery in 2006 when he insisted that he was "the decider", and had decided to ignore calls to fire then-defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld. ![]()
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