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    <pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:16:36 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>The zaniest details from Rod Blagojevich's new book, The Governor.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  "In matters like these," Rod Blagojevich writes in his new book, The Governor, "lawyers advise you to say nothing." That's not a bad suggestion in any legally sticky situation, and especially good counsel when the matter at hand is the alleged sale of the president-elect's newly vacated Senate seat to the highest bidder. But the former governor of Illinois isn't the type to keep mum. Hence his new book, subtitled The Truth Behind the Political Scandal That Continues To Rock the Nation.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2227243/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
  <category>juicy bits</category>
  <author>Juliet Lapidos</author>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 8 Sep 2009 07:01:18 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>All the best details from Barton Gellman's new book on Vice President Dick Cheney.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  It's often said on late-night TV that given Dick Cheney's cardiovascular problems, George W. Bush is just a heartbeat away from the presidency. In his new book, Angler, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Barton Gellman suggests that this joke contains more than just a grain of truth. By immersing himself in details about national security and numerous other hot-button issues that the president was too lazy or too incurious to study, Cheney often managed to position himself as the real "decider."<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2200403/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
  <category>juicy bits</category>
  <author>Juliet Lapidos</author>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:26:37 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>How to entertain like an oil company. </title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  The investigations into the Department of Interior's cozy relationship with the oil and gas industry have spotlighted the freewheeling lifestyle of those who worked in the booming energy sector of the early 2000s.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2200021/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
  <category>juicy bits</category>
  <author>Karim Bardeesy</author>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:35:22 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>A reader's guide to Bob Woodward's The War Within.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Bob Woodward's first three books on George W. Bush were national best-sellers, and it's all but certain that his newly released fourth will be the talk of your next cocktail party. The War Within details the commander in chief's backseat approach to the Iraq war. It reveals a sharp disagreement between Bush and Gen. George Casey, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq before Gen. David Petraeus, over how to assess combat progress and suggests that many key decisions regarding the troop surge were made not by Bush but by National Security Adviser Stephen J. Hadley. Woodward also describes three factors other than the surge that have led to a drop in violence. To help you keep up with political gossip, Slate has put together a reading guide that will fast-forward you straight to the juiciest bits.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2199756/?from=rss">more ...</a>]<!--AD BEGIN--><br clear="all" /><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=5555" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=5555" border="0" vspace="5" /></a><!--AD END-->  ]]></description>
  <category>juicy bits</category>
  <author>Juliet Lapidos</author>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:19:01 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Slate reads Clinton in Exile.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Carol Felsenthal's new book about Bill Clinton's post-presidential years, Clinton in Exile, is often catty, occasionally malicious, and overly reliant on unnamed sources. It's also pretty boring; when Felsenthal's not muckraking, she's content to trot out newspaper accounts of Clinton's foundation work and his appearances on the guest-speaker circuit. But don't fret—with Slate's reading guide, you can zip straight to the water-cooler-worthy gossip.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2190632/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
  <category>juicy bits</category>
  <author>Juliet Lapidos</author>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 5 May 2008 12:49:14 EST</pubDate>
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