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John Edwards’s Unlikely Comeback to Become More Unlikely

What could really throw a wrench into John Edwards’s quixotic return to public life — besides, you know, being widely despised? A tell-all book from someone who knows more about the whole Rielle Hunter affair than almost anyone else. Andrew Young, a (formerly) close Edwards friend and adviser who took Hunter into his home and pretended to be the father of her child, has been shopping a proposal for his insider’s account of the sordid arrangement, photos included. Because this scandal must live on forever. [Daily Beast]

John Edwards’s Unlikely Comeback to Become More Unlikely