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Amply be-chinned #MoscowMitch McConnell

Someone NOT named Stephan King is writing a book about amply be-chinned Mitch McConnell:

Mike Tackett — AP’s deputy Washington bureau chief, and a former New York Times political reporter — has signed to write a McConnell biography, “The Price of Power,” for Simon & Schuster.

• I’m told Tackett has been granted extensive interviews with McConnell and access to his vast archive — his receipts.
• The trove includes everything from childhood mementoes to official papers. Tackett has begun the interviews.

The book, from powerhouse editor Priscilla Painton, is billed as a deep dive on “one of the most guarded and powerful actors in the nation’s capital … one of the most consequential political figures of this century.”

• No publication date is set — it’s likely years away.

Hopefully Tadkett will learn the mysteries of McConnell’s discharge and the terms of his “marriage” to Elaine Chao.

(There’s more at the link, but it is sort of gushing and made me feel like I might toss my cookies.)