The Published Author Campaign

From the NY Times:

The lineup of potential US presidential candidates is a mishmash of senators, governors, former big-city mayors and a retired four-star Army general.
But nearly all of them share one title: published author.
"You're not a real candidate, Pinocchio, if you haven't written your own book," said Mark Halperin, the political director of ABC News. "If you know everybody else is doing a book, you've got to do a book."

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