Remember back in July, when some anonymous naysayer tried to tell us that the dismissal of Valerie Plame‘s lawsuit against Dick Cheney and other former Bush administration figures was oh-so-sure to doom the publication of Fair Game, her memoir about why those people chose to blow her cover as a CIA operative in an attempt to undermine her husband’s refutation of the White House’s justification for going to war against Iraq? I said at the time I thought that guy didn’t know what he was talking about, and I was right: The Associated Press has a copy in hand in advance of Monday’s official release date, and runs through the highlights, most of which are already known—although much of the information that Plame was forced to redact after the manuscript was reviewed by CIA finds its way back into the book through an afterword by Laura Rozen.
(Incidentally, I’ve received other emails on political books from this same self-styled expert since then, always based on his perception of stories off the wire, and always completely wrong about the way the publishing industry works. Go figure!)