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By Leon Neyfakh 5:25pm

Random House Pays North of $1 Million For Oren’s Book on Israel, But Ambassadorship Means They Have to Wait

The historian Michael Oren didn’t know he would soon become Israel’s new ambassador to the United States when he and his literary agent at ICM, Jennifer Joel, started working on the proposal for his new book earlier this year. The book, according to editors who saw the proposal when Ms. Joel sent it out in Read More

By Leon Neyfakh 5/15/09 4:27pm

‘Miracle on the Hudson’ Passengers–More Than 100 of Them!–Collaborate on Group Memoir

On March 11th, it was reported that Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger had scored a seven-figure advance from the William Morrow imprint of HarperCollins for a book of poems and a memoir in which the good-natured pilot would tell his life story and recount the successful emergency landing of USAirways Flight 1549 that he carried Read More

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Random House Pays North of $1 Million For Oren’s Book on Israel, But Ambassadorship Means They Have to Wait

‘Miracle on the Hudson’ Passengers–More Than 100 of Them!–Collaborate on Group Memoir

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