Monica Lewinsky Releases Memoir: ‘How to Survive a Scandal"
NEW YORK— In an unprecedented break from American political tradition, Monica Lewinsky has released a memoir detailing how to survive a national scandal without subsequently launching a Senate campaign, sparking confusion among career politicians and former cable news pundits alike.
Lewinsky’s new book, How to Survive a Scandal Without Becoming a Senator , is being hailed as a bold, genre-defying work that challenges the fundamental laws of Washington, D.C.—namely, the requirement that anyone publicly disgraced must immediately rebrand themselves as either a best-selling political strategist or a rising contender in swing-state primaries.
“I know this may be hard to believe,” Lewinsky writes in the book’s opening chapter, Step One: Don’t Announce a Run for Congress, “but you can absolutely recover from a humiliating, nationally televised scandal without turning it into a campaign slogan. It is possible to be a private citizen who simply… moves on. I realize this concept is dee...