Out next week: Clinton, Inc.: The Audacious Rebuilding of a Political Machine by Daniel Halper.
Lloyd Grove notes the “strange leak” of the book over the weekend — 10 days before its publication date.
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Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
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