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Gamble paperback tour: Your big chance

OK, here’s a chance for all of youse who was complaining that I didn’t give a talk in your town when I was blimblamming around the country for the release of the hardcover edition of The Gamble. I seem to remember bellyaching from Boston, Milwaukee and Atlanta, among other cities. (Frankly when on book tour ...

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OK, here's a chance for all of youse who was complaining that I didn't give a talk in your town when I was blimblamming around the country for the release of the hardcover edition of The Gamble. I seem to remember bellyaching from Boston, Milwaukee and Atlanta, among other cities. (Frankly when on book tour I tend to avoid towns where the Braves have been based. I mean, it would be a bit like touring Philadelphia, Kansas City and Oakland.)

OK, here’s a chance for all of youse who was complaining that I didn’t give a talk in your town when I was blimblamming around the country for the release of the hardcover edition of The Gamble. I seem to remember bellyaching from Boston, Milwaukee and Atlanta, among other cities. (Frankly when on book tour I tend to avoid towns where the Braves have been based. I mean, it would be a bit like touring Philadelphia, Kansas City and Oakland.)

There’s a maximum of eight cities on this tour, which will be in February and March of next year, so northern skiing and southern beach venues are preferred. Plus I am a huge fan of Portland, Oregon. And Moab, Utah. If you want your happening town (or academic institution) to be on the tour, just find a venue willing to pay my way and let my slave-driving publisher know at: ppresspublicity@us.penguingroup.com

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Thomas E. Ricks covered the U.S. military from 1991 to 2008 for the Wall Street Journal and then the Washington Post. He can be reached at ricksblogcomment@gmail.com. Twitter: @tomricks1

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