It seems that a lot is always going on behind the walls of the White House, where the truth can often be strangers than the story. But the story can be very compelling. In the new novel “First gentleman” (Little on 2 June to be published by Brown & Company), Commander In -Chief is a woman, and her husband is accused of murder. This is the third support of the best-selling writer James Patterson and his co-writer, President Bill Clinton.
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Was there any landscape in the book that could not be written without the help of Patterson Clinton? “Oh, I couldn’t Any Without him, “Patterson said.” I will be lost. But secondly, you know, look, I mean, he is the first specialist of gentleman. You know, he was about a first gentleman! ,
“Yes, I thought about it for years. And this is the only political work I ever wanted and I didn’t get!” Clinton smiled. “Because I really thought Hillary should be the President.”
Clinton is very much First The first gentleman won the 2016 election of his wife, Hillary. And he says back, then he said very much about this, what would her role be as a president husband: “How can I do in such a way that if I need me, I will turn on-a-call to help, but I will not reach the way?”
“This is the way I feel about this relationship: How can I help without coming on the way?” Patterson said. “I’m like our first gentleman [relationship],
“If you believe that I have found some land in Arizona, I want to show you!” Clinton laughed.
And sometimes, their white house looks almost as real life. In the book, the President continues to work through a personal crisis. During his 1999 impeachment proceedings, President Clinton worked, with some many people who were trying to get him out of the White House. “And they were amazed by this,” they said. “They will come and do business with me, [and] As far as they knew, I did not remember what was going on. And we will try to exclude deals. ,
In the midst of impeachment? “Because I am hired to do so,” Clinton said. “American people do not pay you to personal feelings. They pay you to give them to them.”
Clinton and Patterson are distributed from 2018, Go missing with his first book about a presidentAnd his second about the kidnapping of the president’s daughter in 2021. Both were bestsellers. But for them, it is not really about work.
Asked how their relationship has developed in their three books simultaneously, Clinton replied, “We have played a lot of golf.”
Patterson said, “He has been President more often, but I have more holes.”
“Oh God. Well, I have one; he has nine“Clinton said.” How many Americans have nine holes? ,
“I know. It’s sick,” said Patterson. “Remember that I am a story writer.”
“Madness stops for a while”
I asked, “Today there is so much political drama in the world, real -life political drama. Do you think there is a hunger for political thriller for a political thriller?”
Patterson said, “I think so, 100%. I mean, one of the good things you survive here, but you don’t completely escape the reality. It likes, ‘Yes, I like it. I can’t keep it down.’ Or ‘I keep reading,’ or in some cases what is better for me, which you don’t want to finish it.
“I think it’s useful, and” so many people are wandering here and there, they go, ‘Oh my God, oh my God, please make it stop’? It stops for a while, stops madness for a while for a while. “
Clinton said, “One reason I hope there is a hunger … I hope that people will still believe in our democratic system that he is enough to stick to it and take it forward to work.”
During summer, Patterson lives at his home on the Hudson River; The President is about five miles away.
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Asked what they would have learned about each other during the writing process, Patterson offered, “Dharna … we cannot do anything to worry about the stuff. Be able to do Do something about it, try to do it. ,
His new book comes out tomorrow and he hopes that it is another bestseller. But if you spend any time with Patterson and Clinton, then you understand that their partnership cannot buy some money.
I asked, “When you wrote your first book together, the New York Times said that both of you ‘Complete each other in Jerry Maggaire sense.’,
“Well, we do a little,” said Patterson. “It has been running me for months now, which is: My time is short here. What can I do the most beautifully? And in this case, doing another book with my friend is a beautiful job.”
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Story created by John D’Amailo. Editor: Jason Schmidt.
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