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  • As if he didn't have enough to deal with -- a gaggle of cooks in his campaign kitchen, a job-creation surge that muddles his economic message, an air-hogging, book-hawking Bill Clinton -- Sen. John Kerry now has to deal with this: a week of justifiable nostalgia for the late Ronald Reagan.

    Living Politics: How Reagan's Passing Helps Bush 2007

  • Where the crack of the bat is drowned by allegations of a bitter, disgraced former star on a book-hawking tour.

    USATODAY.com - Canseco's story brings varied responses 2005

  • That book-hawking would not open the road to success, but, if anything, lead him into an opposite direction, had become clear to him by this time, and he resolved, therefore, to put himself once more into communication with the editors of the annuals, so as to earn a few shillings in writing poetry by the yard.

    The Life of John Clare Martin, Frederick, 1830-1883 1865

  • That book-hawking would not open the road to success, but, if anything, lead him into an opposite direction, had become clear to him by this time, and he resolved, therefore, to put himself once more into communication with the editors of the annuals, so as to earn a few shillings in writing poetry by the yard.

    The Life of John Clare Frederick Martin 1856

  • It wasn't just book-hawking authors warning of the end of our liberties in the Bush years.

    Articles on National Review Online Rich Lowry 2010

  • Unlike that show, where Pawlenty pushes programs and takes calls from constituents, he's acting as a more conventional radio host, interviewing people ranging from book-hawking authors to the station's own reporters (something of a role reversal for him).

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2009

  • Why would a self - serving, book-hawking incompetent start behaving selflessly and honorably now? "

    CNN Transcript Apr 30, 2007 2007

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