A brief breakdown can be found here, of what we can expect from this Pulitzer-worthy offering.

Publishing giant Simon & Schuster said Friday it will release a book this summer by Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer about her life and five years as the state's chief executive, a signal of the Democrat's expanding national profile.

The book, titled, "TRUE GRETCH: What I’ve Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between," is set to go on sale July 9, the publisher said.

"The book provides an unconventionally honest, personal and funny account of her remarkable life and career, full of insights that guided her through a global pandemic, showdowns with high-profile bullies, and even a kidnapping and assassination plot," Simon & Schuster said in a news release.

The Whitmer book comes as the second-term governor is seen as a rising star in the Democratic Party and a potential future presidential candidate. Since the COVID-19 pandemic hit Michigan in 2020, Whitmer has increasingly gained national attention as she repeatedly clashed with former President Donald Trump, as Joe Biden considered her as a potential running mate and as she helped Democrats win control of the state Legislature for the first time in 40 years in 2022.

Whitmer's failure has been so complete in the state of Michigan that anyone on the national scene, who doesn't take just a moment to view her policies and how the state has consistently slid backward, should be treated as the Bud Light exec who hired Dylan Mulvaney. Your desire to push your woke ideology against the daylight of reality--which contains common sense--while admirable, makes you seem a bit off-center.

Yes, Mindy, that means you.

“We’ve been watching Whitmer carve a hugely successful path in these divisive times, and we are thrilled to be publishing her book," Simon & Schuster Vice President and Executive Editor Mindy Marques said in a statement. "She is the very rare politician who can make change and find humor in politics, and her first book is as unconventional as she is.”

The "True Gretch" we know about here in Michigan, notwithstanding, this is a clear indication that she has now shifted gears and is at least contemplating what she wants to do after her term as governor ends in 2026. 

Right before COVID hit in 2020, and after Joe Biden had statistically secured the Democrat nomination for President that year, rumors were swirling that she was on the shortlist to be the next VP candidate. People I talked to in her outer circle said she would never leave the state because of personal commitments, and fears of what it would do to her and her family. Also privately, they speculated that Biden was looking for somebody of color.

That, on both counts, turned out to be 100 percent true.

That her book is dropping right in the middle of the summer--before the presidential campaign starts to heat up--is not a coincidence; it means that people in the state who have opposed her policies will have a field day reminding her, and the people in the state, of what she has done since her election in 2018.

Even though she won reelection in 2022 by a healthy margin, she was helped by a Michigan GOP that has been a bit of a train wreck-- which, of course, helped her in that effort. 

I'm sure stories like these would pop up over and over again. As an example, from a story about how her COVID reporting numbers might have been a bit off, which journalist Charlie LeDuff reported. 

One Lone Reporter Thinks Gretchen Whitmer Is in Trouble if She Tries to Go National

The Whitmer administration has not fulfilled my request or our request on the No Bulls**t News Hour for COVID death data that may shed light on the true extent of the nursing home devastation. This, in my opinion, is a violation of state law, and more so and this is not an opinion, it is a danger and a disservice to our institutionalized elders who have borne the brunt of the suffering and continue to bear it. (Guv) Cuomo in New York is now under Federal investigation, a second one apparently for misleading the public whose nursing home playbook was copied by (Guv) Whitmer. This in the aftermath of an investigation conducted by the office of the New York State Attorney General, a democrat.

LeDuff continued:

Release the data Madame Governor but she won’t, so Steve Deliee the lead policy lawyer on transparency and open government with the august and well regarded Mackinac Center the non-partisan think tank here in Michigan, they have agreed to take our case to sue the Whitmer administration for the death data in these nursing homes.

That LeDuff had to threaten to sue to get the numbers released is troublesome.

This, at the very least, gives a poor look to how the numbers were compiled here in Michigan for nursing home deaths during COVID. Those of us who were watching this closely, though, understood that whatever Andrew Cuomo in New York did, Whitmer and her administration would generally copy the next week. 

When Cuomo was finally forced out of office for his possible transgressions, "True Gretch" looked truly lost, being that her role model and hero had left her high and dry to govern all alone.

There are so many issues with Gretch's leadership that I'm sure she will just brush by them in her book--like her support of illegal immigration, her coziness with China-owned companies that were pushing their will here in the state, and the continued migration of Michigainians leaving the state for greener pastures.

I'm sure she'll cover all that in an in-depth way. Probably in her next book.

In the meantime, America gets ready for the most anticipated book by a political hack since Andrew Cuomo, that the hosts at MSNBC won't be able to stop talking about.