Former House Speaker John Boehner is currently working on a memoir detailing his career in Washington, from 1991 to 2015, Politico reports.
“I get the question every day: What was the proudest accomplishment of your time in Congress? And I think it’s that I walked out of there in October 2015 as pretty much the same jackass I was when I walked in almost 25 years earlier. I walked out of there with no regrets. . . and a hell of a lot of good stories,” Boehner said in a statement.
Politico notes that the retired congressman’s “tentative title, ‘Notes From a Smoke-Filled Room,’ suggests that Boehner intends to portray himself as an anachronism, a creature from a bygone era,” which the publisher, St. Martin’s Press imprint Thomas Dunne Books, echoed.
“John Boehner is, in many ways, the last of a breed. In a world of kale chips, cold-pressed coffee and soul cycles, he’s a man of Camels, good wine and frequent tee times,” the publisher said in a statement.
“He doesn’t chase political fads or play to the cameras. Despite being second in line to the presidency, he thought of himself as a regular guy. A happy warrior. There could hardly have been, at that time, a more diametrically opposed figure to represent the opposition party during Barack Obama’s presidency.”
The former speaker said on Monday that he’s “never really been interested in doing your typical political-memoir kind of book. And this won’t be that kind of book. This is going to be a book people might want to actually read, no matter where they’re coming from politically, or where they’re coming from in life.”
The book is set for release in spring 2020.
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