(D-N.Y.) will re-release her book, It Takes a Village, on Tuesday, 10 years after she published the book as first lady.
She will do a limited amount of media promotion in the next week for the book, in which Clinton argues that collective effort is needed to protect and defend children. In a newly written introduction, Clinton reflects on how our village has changed over the last decade -- from the impact of the Internet to new research in early child development and education, according to her publisher, Simon Schuster. Clinton also discusses such issues as security, the environment and the national debt.
Other prospective Democratic candidates have been on aggressive book-publishing schedules. (D-Ill.) has been actively promoting his new book, The Audacity of Hope.
Former North Carolina senator and 2004 vice presidential candidate John Edwards has traveled to early primary states to sell his new tome, Home.
(R-Ariz.) and his chief of staff, Mark Salter, will release their fifth book in August, according to the National Journal Web log.
The book, tentatively titled Hard Call, will explore historic decisions in politics, history, science and other endeavors. According to the Web log, McCain and Salter have identified six key principles that separate success and failure: awareness, timing, confidence, foresight, humility and inspiration.
Al Gore, who has kept the door to a presidential run slightly ajar, next year will publish The Assault on Reason -- an examination of how the public arena has grown more hostile to reason.
Gore is well known for promoting his candidacy through his causes. In 1992, as a vice presidential candidate, he published a cautionary tale on the environment, Earth in the Balance.
Tackling that subject area next will be (Mass.
), the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, who is releasing a so-far-untitled book on the environment in March with his wife, Teresa. According to PublicAffairs, his publisher, the book describes the work of the senator and his wife on promoting the environment from the San Juan Basin to the South Bronx. In an author's note, Kerry writes that we are sliding dangerously backwards in almost every sector of environmental concern.
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We share a sense of urgency about the need to reinvigorate grassroots action which takes these concerns into the ballot box.
Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R), has no plans for a book in the next few years.
Another possible GOP presidential hopeful, former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, also has no book plans, though his post-Sept. 11 tome, Leadership, was a huge success.
National Journal's well-regarded survey of Washington insiders shows that nearly 69 percent believe that Clinton will be the Democratic nominee, while 73 percent believe that McCain will be the Republican nominee.
Notably, Republicans believe that Clinton is a much stronger candidate than the Democrats give her credit for. More than half of Republicans say she is the strongest candidate.
But only a quarter of Democrats believe the same of her. Both Republicans and Democrats agree that Obama is the second strongest.
More than half of Republicans, meanwhile, believe that McCain is the strongest candidate, while 70 percent of Democrats do.
Republicans believe that Romney is the second strongest, but Democrats say that Giuliani is No. 2.
The 2008 election could yield the first female (Clinton), black (Obama) or Mormon (Romney) president.
The insiders did not believe, generally, that religion or gender would hurt or help the candidates. But nearly half of Democrats and 40 percent of Republicans believed that Obama's race could hurt him in the campaign.
Campaign finance filings last week gave a picture of the financial state of the parties' six campaign committees.
The Republican National Committee had $6 million on hand and received a $12 million transfer in late October from Bush's 2004 reelection campaign committee. The National Republican Congressional Committee had $1.3 million on hand with more than $13 million in debt, while the Republican National Senatorial Committee had $500,000 with $200,000 in debt.
The Democratic National Committee had $4.7 million in cash and $4 million in debt, while the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee had $2.2 million in cash and $10 million in debt.
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee had $2.3 million in cash and $5.4 million in debt.
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