April 24, 2009 | Uncategorized

Meghan McCain Offered a Book Deal: How to be a Hip Republican

The outspoken daughter of Senator John McCain has signed a book deal with Hyperion Press, owned by Disney. Hyperion beat out a number of other publishers in a bidding war that ended in the high six figures.

McCain has become a spokesperson for the new generation of GOP supporters with her blog and regular column for Tina Brown and Barry Diller’s Web site The Daily Beast. In the past she has taken on other figures like Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham, the latter of whom responded by calling McCain a “plus-sized model.”

The new book, slated for publication in the spring of 2010, will be a guide for the troubled right as it attempts to reclaim some of the hipness and passion that has fueled the wave of Obama activism over the last year. She will address the stigma attached to being a young Republican, particularly a female conservative, and “explore what it means to be a progressive Republican in the party today” and “what it means to love the Republican Party, while not always fitting in.”

McCain will also offer advice to the GOP leadership, as the book will “touch on topics ranging from what the party needs to do to attract others like her, to the importance of technology in reaching out to younger voters, to what needs to be done to keep young people passionate and involved in politics in the future.”

This will be McCain’s second book, the first being a picture book about her father titled My Dad, John McCain.

AUTHOR: Kristina Canizares