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James Hirsen

Newsmax.com
Posted April 19, 2004

Clarke's Success Stuns Agent
A Political Look at Hollywood

Hollywood’s interest in the book “Against All Enemies” evidently has Richard Clarke’s agent and publisher feeling flabbergasted. Clarke’s business associates were apparently unaware of the amount of antipathy that Tinseltown has accrued toward President Bush. Clarke’s literary agent, Len Sherman, told the New York Times that he was shocked at how far the book had gone in such a short time.

“He wrote the book to get the story out; he wasn’t really thinking about the movies,” Sherman disclosed. “Even the publishing house [Free Press, a subsidiary of Simon & Schuster] wasn’t thinking that this would be a movie. It’s a nonfiction, policy-driven book. But it became an inevitability.”

Actually, there’s a simple explanation for why cinematic hearts in Tinseltown are aflutter. The book slaps the president around in a major way.

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James Hirsen is a New York Times best selling author, commentator, news analyst and law professor. He is sought after for his expertise on current events and cultural matters, and has appeared on the O’Reilly Factor, Weekend Live with Tony Snow, Scarborough Country, CNN’s People in the News, Fox and Friends, ABC’s Politically Incorrect and numerous other television programs. He is also a frequent radio guest of Sean Hannity, G. Gordon Liddy, Dennis Prager, Michael Reagan and hosts his own daily nationally syndicated radio program. Hirsen is author of the popular weekly column, “The Left Coast Report,” and the New York Times bestseller Tales from the Left Coast: True Stories of Hollywood Stars and Their Outrageous Politics . He teaches law at both Trinity Law School and Biola University in Southern California and is admitted to practice in the California and Washington, D.C. Bar Associations as well as the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of International Trade. Prior to this James Hirsen worked as a professional musician and for a number of years was keyboardist for one of the most legendary groups of all times, the Temptations.