Jesse James will dictate his life story to a ghost writer

For one of those there book-things

February 23, 2011 at 2:54PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Hard sell: studies show that most of the people who might be interested in this book can't read in the first place. Reuters says:

American outlaw. Please. Riding a motorcycle, getting covered in ink and conducting public custody battles with your former porn-star wife does not make you an "outlaw." IIn the world of modern reality-tv shows, it makes you typical. Unless we're willing to criminalize "being Jesse James." After last year a few bills were introduced to that effect, but nothing came of it.

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