Melville House Books

Now it can be told (for a lot of money): George Bush and Condoleezza Rice

Well, now we know: “Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has agreed to a three-book deal with Crown Publishers, starting with a memoir about her years in the administration of President George W. Bush,” reports Hillel Italie in an Associated Press wire story. The deal is worth “at least $2.5 million,” says Italie, citing anonymous sources, as if there could be a variety of them, and the first book, due out in 2011, is to be a memoir: “Rice will combine candid narrative and acute analysis to tell the story of her time in the White House and as America’s top diplomat, and her role in protecting American security and shaping foreign policy during the extraordinary period from 2001-2009,” according to a statement from the publisher — whom, interestingly enough, also published Barack Obama‘s The Audacity of Hope.

Dennis Johnson is the founder of MobyLives, and the co-founder and co-publisher of Melville House.