Historian's Book to Unveil Talks With Ex-Pres. Clinton

Mar 22, 03:08 PM

Current Headlines: Hours and hours of conversations between then-President Bill Clinton and award-winning historian Taylor Branch are being transcribed for a new book.

Simon & Schuster will publish "Wrestling History: The Bill Clinton Tapes" at the end of 2008, The New York Times reported Wednesday. Financial terms were not disclosed. Clinton reportedly received $10 million-$12 million for his memoir "My Life," published in 2004 by Alfred A. Knopf.

"I'm not calling this a biography of Clinton or a history of the administration," Branch told the Times. "It is what it was like to live through it that way, sitting alone with him, talking about the presidency as he saw it, right in the moment."

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