Maeve
06-09-2003, 03:57 AM
Lines like this are usually seen around trendy nightclubs. But in this case the people don't want music, they want Hillary.
As many as 80 people stood in line outside an upper west side Barnes and Noble bookstore at midnight Monday to get a copy of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's new book entitled, "Living History."
In the book, she revisits the public and private wreckage from Bill Clinton's affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. She concludes that what her husband did was morally wrong but not a betrayal of the public.
The crowd waiting in line couldn't wait to know what Sen. Clinton had to say.
"Its the hot book of the summer and I wanted to get it first," said Mike Keo, 40, Manhattan lawyer who stood in line waiting to purchase his copy. "I just think it would be nice to hear about her life from her."
Some even came the moment they knew the book was on sale.
"I was in my pajamas and I saw it on TV and I jumped up and my husband said where are you going," said Lyn Scarpati, 56, a real estate broker.
Asked about excerpts from the book that had been previously released, she said: "She always has the right answer and it just seems she thinks of everything and knows just what to say. It's very impressive to me."
The senator began her 2003 book tour on Sunday night with a prime-time television interview on ABC.
On Monday, the host of the tour's inaugural signing event for Clinton's "Living History," a Barnes & Noble in midtown Manhattan, is counting on heavy crowds.
Store managers will distribute wristbands to the first 250 people seeking autographed copies of the Democratic senator's book, to make sure at l that many people get a copy.
Even before the sale of a single book, the company's vice president of marketing, Bob Wietrack, predicted the memoir of Clinton's time in the White House will be the chain's No. 1 nonfiction book of the year.
Simon & Schuster, which agreed to pay Clinton $8 million, has printed an astounding 1 million copies, betting on major interest in her account of her husband's two presidential terms.
Wietrack said he believes there will be "a giant two- or three-week pop" of sales as Clinton shows up all over broadcast and in print promoting the book.
As many as 80 people stood in line outside an upper west side Barnes and Noble bookstore at midnight Monday to get a copy of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's new book entitled, "Living History."
In the book, she revisits the public and private wreckage from Bill Clinton's affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. She concludes that what her husband did was morally wrong but not a betrayal of the public.
The crowd waiting in line couldn't wait to know what Sen. Clinton had to say.
"Its the hot book of the summer and I wanted to get it first," said Mike Keo, 40, Manhattan lawyer who stood in line waiting to purchase his copy. "I just think it would be nice to hear about her life from her."
Some even came the moment they knew the book was on sale.
"I was in my pajamas and I saw it on TV and I jumped up and my husband said where are you going," said Lyn Scarpati, 56, a real estate broker.
Asked about excerpts from the book that had been previously released, she said: "She always has the right answer and it just seems she thinks of everything and knows just what to say. It's very impressive to me."
The senator began her 2003 book tour on Sunday night with a prime-time television interview on ABC.
On Monday, the host of the tour's inaugural signing event for Clinton's "Living History," a Barnes & Noble in midtown Manhattan, is counting on heavy crowds.
Store managers will distribute wristbands to the first 250 people seeking autographed copies of the Democratic senator's book, to make sure at l that many people get a copy.
Even before the sale of a single book, the company's vice president of marketing, Bob Wietrack, predicted the memoir of Clinton's time in the White House will be the chain's No. 1 nonfiction book of the year.
Simon & Schuster, which agreed to pay Clinton $8 million, has printed an astounding 1 million copies, betting on major interest in her account of her husband's two presidential terms.
Wietrack said he believes there will be "a giant two- or three-week pop" of sales as Clinton shows up all over broadcast and in print promoting the book.