John Edwards is acquiring quite the library! The philandering philanthropist’s personal bookshelf includes his wife’s new memoir, Resilience. And of course, there’s his well-worn copy of How to Bang Cougars and Alienate People, right next to a dogeared Adultery for Dummies. Now comes word that yet another Edwards-centric book may be in the works.
Per the Daily Beast:
Campaign worker Andrew Young — who claimed to be the father of Rielle Hunter’s child and was paid to take her into his home for eight months — is shopping a tell-all book proposal dishing about the sex scandal…
According to his proposal, represented by David McCormick at McCormick Williams, the book would chronicle the tale of his long friendship with the Edwards family, his attempt to help Edwards by taking a pregnant Rielle Hunter into his home to live with him and his wife, Cheri, and their three children, and the fallout when the press (and Elizabeth Edwards) caught wind of the plan.
Edwards had to know something like this would happen eventually. When you pay for people’s silence, they’re only going to clam up as long as you keep, well, shelling out the clams. And with the untimely death of Edwards’ moneyman Fred Baron, apparently Edwards isn’t willing to write his former stooge an unlaundered personal check.
The Beast also notes the uncanny resemblance between Young and a certain Arrested Development star, which we pointed out almost a year ago:
Role of a lifetime, Mr. Arnett!
Let’s see, what unanswered questions should this book address? Just off the top of my head, Mr. Young…
- Did you really think anybody was going to believe that you fathered Rielle Hunter’s baby, even after the reports that you’d invited her to dinner with your family in your own home when she was visibly pregnant?
- When you moved your wife and kids across the country to live in a rented mansion with you and the woman you allegedly knocked up, at any point did anyone involved wonder if maybe it was a bad idea?
- If you had managed to hide the baby and Edwards had been elected president, what then? Were there plans for how you’d continue the ruse at least until the kid’s 4th birthday, if not her 8th? Was anybody even thinking that far ahead?
- What’s next for Andrew Young? No matter how well this book sells, it seems like sort of a one-time deal. Will you look for another horny politician to clean up after? I hear Bill Clinton could use a pal these days!
- How does Cheri feel about being the wife of the guy who made a living pretending to be an adulterer in order to protect a liar, and who’s now transitioning into a career as the guy who tattled on that liar?
An incomplete list, but it’s a good start. Leave your own questions in the comments, commenters!
P.S. Is anybody even pretending anymore that Edwards isn’t the father? Besides Edwards, of course.
P.P.S. Edwards, on what he sees as his political future: “Sometimes you just keep your head down and work hard and see what happens.” If only Rielle had kept her head down, instead of her feet in the air.



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