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Fans camped out overnight in New York City for his first book signing. On Day One alone, BILL CLINTON moved 400,000 copies of his memoir. Later he sparred with a BBC interviewer, hung tough with Diane Sawyer and Katie Couric, and got soft and fuzzy with Oprah. By the end of the week, he may have been the most overexposed ex-President in history. But can that man sell a book or what...
DIED. MATTIE J.T. STEPANEK, 13, upbeat poet and champion of world peace who sold millions of books and enchanted even more people with spirited appearances on TV shows like Oprah and Good Morning America; of muscular dystrophy; in Washington. Mattie, who counted former President Jimmy Carter as a friend, published five books of poetry and was an ever cheerful advocate of muscular dystrophy awareness. He had a rare form of the disease, which impeded his breathing, heart rate and digestion and confined him to a wheelchair. The same disease killed his three elder siblings...
...slave named Sally Hemings (she gave birth to at least six, and possibly seven, children in all). If that Jefferson was the third President, as many historians believe, it means at least some of Sally Hemings' descendants were Thomas Jefferson's too. After a very public invitation on The Oprah Winfrey Show in November 1998 by an association member, dozens of Hemings began attending the group's annual reunion, albeit as guests, not members...
...years. For the most part, it's just garbage, so I go through them, take whatever's good and make a master list. In the summer of 1984, I've got on June 23 that I saw a drunk woman drop her baby. And then an episode of Oprah that was particularly good on July 3. I used to type my diary and then have it bound. Now I print it out. I do one every season, and it has to have a seasonal cover. It's a lot of work for something no one's ever going...
...happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." LEO TOLSTOY, in the opening lines of Anna Karenina, his 1870s novel that is No. 1 on the best-seller list after being picked for Oprah's Book Club...