{"id":73648,"date":"2014-01-21T05:53:15","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T05:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2014\/01\/21\/pour-faire-de-vos-memoires-un-bestseller-juteux-15-20-millions-soyez-potus\/"},"modified":"2014-01-21T05:53:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T05:53:15","slug":"pour-faire-de-vos-memoires-un-bestseller-juteux-15-20-millions-soyez-potus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2014\/01\/21\/pour-faire-de-vos-memoires-un-bestseller-juteux-15-20-millions-soyez-potus\/","title":{"rendered":"Pour faire de vos m\u00e9moires un bestseller<\/em> juteux ($15-$20 millions), soyez POTUS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pour faire de vos m\u00e9moires un bestseller<\/em> juteux ($15-$20 millions), soyez POTUS<\/h4>\n

La question pourrait en effet s r\u00e9sumer \u00e0 ceci : Obama \u00e9crira-t-il des m\u00e9moires pour rendre compte des r\u00e9alisations de sa fonction pr\u00e9sidentielle ou a-t-il \u00e9t\u00e9 pr\u00e9sident (ou POTUS, pour President Of The United States<\/em>) pour pouvoir assurer une meilleure vente et un meilleur rapport de ses m\u00e9moires ? … Avec une pr\u00e9f\u00e9rence, d\u00e9sormais, pour le deuxi\u00e8me terme de l’alternative, en lisant un passage de l’\u00e9norme article-fleuve consacr\u00e9 par David Remnick \u00e0 un portrait gargantuesque du pr\u00e9sident dans The New Yorker<\/em> en date du 27 janvier 2014<\/a>. On y apprend, entre des millions d’autres choses assez convenues qui d\u00e9taillent une pr\u00e9sidence qui aurait bien voulu \u00eatre mais qui n’a pas \u00e9t\u00e9 du tout, que l’un des sujets \u00e0 l’ordre du jour concerne les n\u00e9gociations pour les m\u00e9moires de BHO apr\u00e8s sa pr\u00e9sidence (janvier 2017, tout de m\u00eame), et pour celles de sa femme, d\u00e9j\u00e0 \u00e0 son travail de r\u00e9daction.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbWhen Obama leaves the White House, on January 20, 2017, he will write a memoir. Now, that’s a slam dunk, the former Obama adviser David Axelrod told me. Andrew Wylie, a leading literary agent, said he thought that publishers would pay between seventeen and twenty million dollars for the bookthe most ever for a work of nonfictionand around twelve million for Michelle Obama’s memoirs. (The First Lady has already started work on hers.) Obama’s best friend, Marty Nesbitt, a Chicago businessman, told me that, important as the memoir might be to Obama’s legacy and to his finances, I don’t see him locked up in a room writing all the time. His capacity to crank stuff out is amazing. When he was writing his second book, he would say, I’m gonna get up at seven and write this chapterand at nine we’ll play golf.’ I would think no, it’s going to be a lot later, but he would knock on my door at nine and say, Let’s go.’ Nesbitt thinks that Obama will work on issues such as human rights, education, and health and wellness. He was a local community organizer when he was young, he said. At the back end of his career, I see him as an international and national community organizer.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbYet no post-Presidential projecteven one as worthy as Ulysses S. Grant’s memoirs or Jimmy Carter’s efforts to eradicate the Guinea worm in Africacan overshadow what can be accomplished in the White House with the stroke of a pen or a phone call. And, after a miserable year, Obama’s Presidency is on the clock. Hard as it has been to pass legislation since the Republicans took the House, in 2010, the coming year is a marker, the final interval before the fight for succession becomes politically all-consuming.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tLe ton de l’article est d\u00e9j\u00e0 tr\u00e8s post-mortem<\/em> : en quelque sorte, BHO pr\u00e9sident c’est d\u00e9j\u00e0 du pass\u00e9. N’ayant rien accompli de fondamental durant son premier terme sinon diverses ambitions d\u00e9\u00e7ues, et ayant promis que, pour le second terme il serait plus \u00e0 l’aise pour agir (voir le 27 mars 2012<\/a>), BHO en arrive logiquement, apr\u00e8s la premi\u00e8re ann\u00e9e absolument catastrophique de ce second terme au constat implicite que, de toutes les fa\u00e7ons il n’y a plus grand’chose \u00e0 faire qu’\u00e0 pr\u00e9parer sa retraite dor\u00e9e, c’est-\u00e0-dire entamer sa v\u00e9ritable carri\u00e8re<\/strong> de faiseur de fric en racontant ce qu’il aurait pu \u00eatre. Des m\u00e9moires \u00e0 $15-$20 millions, c’est le signe confirm\u00e9 du talent enfin reconnu, Yes, He Can<\/em>, ou la gestion assur\u00e9e de la paralysie du pouvoir, racont\u00e9e en termes fleuris et pompeux…<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abObama has three years left, but it’s not difficult to sense a politician with an acute sense of time, a politician devising ways to widen his legacy without the benefit of any support from Congress. The State of the Union speech next week will be a catalogue of things hoped for, a resumption of the second inaugural, with an added emphasis on the theme of inequality. But Obama knows that major legislationwith the possible exception of immigrationis unlikely. And so there is in him a certain degree of reduced ambition, a sense that even well before the commentariat starts calling him a lame duck he will spend much of his time setting an agenda that can be resolved only after he has retired to the life of a writer and post-President.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tPuisque ses activit\u00e9s seraient, apr\u00e8s janvier 2017, de type humanitaire assorti des conf\u00e9rences qu’on imagine, \u00e0 $150.000-$200.000 la soir\u00e9e, on sugg\u00e8re qu’il concr\u00e9tise les rumeurs-people<\/em> de divorce d’avec Michelle (voir Inquisitr<\/em> le 18 janvier 2014<\/a>, voir aussi Hollande) et qu’il se mettent en couple avec Tony Blair, un vieux de la vieille de la narrative<\/em> opulente de la postmodernit\u00e9. Ils formeraient un dream team<\/em> qui pourrait lancer, avant m\u00eame de consommer le sujet, les n\u00e9gociations pour le contrat des premiers m\u00e9moires des m\u00e9moires du couple gay<\/em> le plus c\u00e9l\u00e8bre du monde. Egaux \u00e0 eux-m\u00eames, et amen par cons\u00e9quent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tMis en ligne le 21 janvier 2014 \u00e0 05H51<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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