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...Robert Gottlieb, an accomplished and experienced editor for Knopf, is about to embark on the complicated project of eliciting from Bill Clinton a work of autobiography - a book dramatic enough, entertaining enough, powerful enough, let's face it, sexy enough to justify the $10 million advance that Knopf is paying...
...irrational animal. Writers howl, run in circles, and bite editors on the calf. Bill Clinton, though brilliantly seductive as a communicator, comes as an amateur to the business of memoir-writing. How difficult will Clinton be to handle? I don't know. And who will be handling whom? Gottlieb is smart enough to refrain from writing in the margin, "INSERT SEXUAL NITTY-GRITTY HERE." Gottlieb's problem will be to get the boy from Hope to be honest in more important ways...
...Clinton's natural talent runs to the production of silk purses - smooth, self-serving versions of things. Gottlieb will have to work hard to get some genuine sows' ears out of the man - the unadorned, unspun, real stuff that is supposed to be a primary ingredient in a life story: What really happened. Clinton, a genius of self-presentation, may, when pressed, only seem to get real: He will produce sows' ears with sequins on them, shimmering accessories so lovely, in fact, that mere silk purses will go out of fashion...
...border deals. That has made New York State law, in particular, a global gold standard, often invoked in a transaction even when neither party is based in the U.S. "It's become a neutral, third-party law," says Jeff Lewis, a partner at the New York City firm Cleary, Gottlieb. "In Asia and Latin America, when a state enterprise auctions off assets, the legal documents are often written to be governed by New York law. It's done to attract American investment...
After leaving the London School of Economics, Rubin headed to New Haven for Yale Law School. But he practiced only briefly after graduating in 1964, joining Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York City for just two years. He moved on to Goldman Sachs, where he remained for 26 years...