The John McCain adviser who let slip during the 2008 campaign that Sarah Palin thought Africa was a country talks about his political adventures.
Saturday, November 7
7PM. Free. Atomic Books.
Hampden, Baltimore.
Author, pundit, former McCain adviser and Neo-Con Martin Eisenstadt discusses his political adventures and his new book I AM MARTIN EISENSTADT: ONE MAN'S (WILDLY INAPPROPRIATE) ADVENTURES WITH THE LAST REPUBLICANS (published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
The book reads like Primary Colors meets Forrest Gump - a mix of political intrigue, campaign-trail escapades, and cyberspace detective work.
Desperate to rise through the ranks of Washington's media punditocracy, Eisenstadt insinuates himself into the last 30 years of American politics - from losing his virginity to Fawn Hall, to interning on the Willie Horton ad campaign, to buying Sarah Palin's wardrobe. He dishes the dirt on why he leaked the Sarah Palin Africa story, what the Jonas Brothers taught Barack Obama, who Joe the Plumber canoodled with at the SNL afterparty and how he made Paris Hilton famous for a different kind of video.
Though essentially a satirical novel in the vein of Christopher Buckley, the book raises a few bombshell non-fiction questions like whether Bill O'Reilly contributed to the death of Tim Russert, how John McCain buried the New York Times story about his alleged affair, and how CNN's conflict-of-interest with a pundit may have led to Barack Obama's nomination.And here's the NYTimes story that made him famous.
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