Gavin Newsom: “I submitted this to Penguin Pet Press, and the great Ann got…”

“You haven't dialed into the cynicism, the fear and the anxiety you've had all this stacking of stress that grace. You haven't even given yourself this original book, by the way. This was not supposed to be a memoir. I submitted this to Penguin Pet Press, and the great Ann got off and she rejected my book. And I thought she was going to reject it because I had one chapter about my childhood and the rest of it was about COVID and social unrest, supply chain issues, and my first two years with Trump and two years with Biden.” (1:00:01–1:00:07)

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