Blago Memoir: 'I Didn't Do Anything Wrong'

When it comes to political memoirs, Rod Blagojevich’s The Governor: Finally, the Truth Behind the Political Scandal That Continues to Rock the Nation “is surely unsurpassed” in the areas of “febrile self-defensiveness and look-over-there deflections and deceptions,” writes David Remnick for the New Yorker. “No sun can melt Blago’s coif, which descends like a silken espresso curtain and then swerves suddenly to the side, revealing a gaze most innocent.”

“If you have never heard the wiretaps, Blagojevich’s book makes a kind of loopy sense,” Remnick continues. “It’s not that he really wanted to sell Obama’s Senate seat, exactly, oh, no, he just wanted to get something out of it, see—maybe by ‘holding my nose’ and offering it to a useful enemy. For the good of the people of Illinois and whatnot.” And don't count him out of politics just yet, Blago tells Remnick: “I believe in those comebacks.” (More Rod Blagojevich stories.)