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How Low Can the Price of a House Leader’s Memoir Go?
By CQ Staff | 7:03 AM; Sep. 14, 2007 | Email This Article

By Edward Epstein, CQ Staff

How about a penny, plus $3.99 for shipping and handling.

That’s the lowest price right now on Amazon.com for a used copy of the 2004 autobiography, “Speaker: Lessons from Forty Years in Coaching and Politics,’’ by former Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, R-Ill.

That bargain-basement price for an ex-Speaker’s memoir extends to another Republican as well.

“Lessons Learned the Hard Way: A Personal Report,” the 1998 autobiography by Newt Gingrich of Georgia (1979-99), is going for one cent.

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