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By John Koblin 4/22/08 3:29pm

Washington Power Broker Robert Barnett Representing WSJ's Brauchli

Media Mob has learned that Washington lawyer and champion Beltway book broker Robert Barnett is representing soon-to-be-former Wall Street Journal managing editor Marcus Brauchli in his severance-package negotiations with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.

Mr. Barnett has, in the last year, brokered massive book deals for political heavyweights Karl Rove, Ted Kennedy, and Tony Blair.

They’re Read More

By Zachary Roth 12/06/07 3:46pm

Publisher: Rove's Memoir Could Fetch $3 Million

Karl Rove’s memoir, whose rights will be auctioned beginning today, should fetch around $3 million, according to an unnamed publisher who plans to bid on it and spoke to The New York Post‘s Keith Kelly.

That would be significantly less than memoirs by Tony Blair, Teddy Kennedy, and both Bill and Hillary Clinton, Read More

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