Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather has signed a book deal for his memoir which will be published in 2012.

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News anchor Dan Rather has signed a book deal with Grand Central Publishing for his memoir. The book will be entitled Summing Up, and is tentatively scheduled for spring 2012 publication.

Grand Central executive editor Rick Wolff acquired the book and Paul Fedorko negotiated the deal. The book will cover major historical events ranging from the Watergate scandal to the Iraq War, and it will included very “personal and candid” section about leaving CBS News in a storm of controversy.

Rather had this statement: “I just felt the time had come for me to sum up my career in a candid memoir, and now I feel the time is right. Plus, with the changing climate – and attitude – about news and journalists, I feel I can give readers an honest perspective on the present, and, more important, on the future of news.”

Rather had hoped to be enshrined in CBS News history along with Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite but after his National Guard story on President Bush imploded due to a lack of facts he finished his career looking more like Ted Baxter from the Mary Tyler Moore Show.

He will ceratinly have the long knives out for CBS but I won’t be surprised if he manages to conveniently forget the September 1987 incident where he left the set because he was mad about a tennis match running over time leaving the network with six minutes of dead air in the form of a black screen, or his contentious interview with Vice President Bush in 1988 for which he was roundly critcized for.

Rather promises the book will be candid but with these and other odd incidents during his career it we will just ahve to wait and see what his definition of candid really is.

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