And the former Treasury secretary did not help his cause in trying to put the onus of the book's message on Suskind.

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In 1971, McGraw-Hill was about to publish Hughes's autobiography when it learned that the book was an elaborate hoax for which its authors, Clifford Irving and Richard Suskind, would later go to jail.

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In 2002, Mr Bush's own Treasury prepared a memo on the subject, recently brought into the open by Ron Suskind, the author of a book about Mr Bush's first treasury secretary, Paul O'Neill.

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Didn't he give Suskind all his private documents?

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