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RheeFirst! » Did Harry Jaffe write Michelle Rhee’s new book? Not according to StudentsFirst staff…

RheeFirst! » Did Harry Jaffe write Michelle Rhee’s new book? Not according to StudentsFirst staff…:


Did Harry Jaffe write Michelle Rhee’s new book? Not according to StudentsFirst staff…

The Washington City Paper has an interesting little piece out today about how columnist Harry Jaffe may have ghostwritten Rhee’s new memoir.   The evidence for Jaffe’s involvement seems pretty solid:
“Jaffe definitely worked on Radical to some extent. Examiner editor Stephen G. Smith, whose paper runs Jaffe’s column, says Jaffe told editors that he was working on the book. At the end of her memoir, Rhee thanks him for his help, writing, “Harry Jaffe’s writing guidance was essential.”
A more revealing disclosure comes at the end of a story Jaffe wrote for Washingtonian about DCPS in October. The disclosure reads: ‘Harry Jaffe is collaborating on a memoir with former