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- PEOPLE, Page 45Raisa's Turn
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- By ALEXANDER TRESNIOWSKI/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- What happens when the First Lady of Communism meets the
- King of Capitalism? A book deal, that's what. The improbable
- summit took place when Australian-born media mogul Rupert
- Murdoch, who is chairman of Harper Collins' parent company,
- stopped by the Kremlin to talk rubles and reprints with Raisa
- Gorbachev, in need of a publisher for her autobiography. Such
- high-level negotiating is rare in the book world, but the
- personal touch worked -- and Murdoch walked off with the rights
- to publish I Hope: Reminiscences and Reflections, Raisa's
- account of her childhood, her life with Gorby and, yes, her
- run-ins with Nancy Reagan. The book is due in the fall.
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