Morris Quickly Strikes Book Deal

Dick Morris’ term as a political pariah seems to have lasted about an hour and a half. Random House announced that it had bought the consultant’s account of how he masterminded President Clinton’s comeback, in a campaign that still has two months to run, and one that Morris won’t be part of. The book deal was finalized very quickly, apparently at a lunch that Random House publisher Harold Evans and his wife, New Yorker editor Tina Brown, had for Morris and his wife, Eileen McGann, at Evans’ New York apartment. The book is scheduled to be published after the election. A spokesman for the publisher said no one was available to answer questions about the deal. Morris, who resigned from the campaign last week amid a sex scandal, said this week he will not be advising Clinton even on an informal basis.