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ShareWe hear that SEIU communications dir. Ben Boyd has accepted a job with Edelman public relations's DC office.
He'll start at the end of May. The Service Employees, led by president Andy Stern, is at the vanguard of labor's battle against Wal-Mart, while Edelman was retained by the retailer to enhance its image.
Boyd said he will not work on the Wal-Mart account. He'll report to Edelman vice chair Leslie Dach, an ex-DNC official.
Also: Fishbowl DC's Garrett Graff has signed with the tony Farrar, Straus, and Giroux to write "The First Campaign: Democrats, The Internet, and The Future of American Politics." Graff, a wunderkind editor at large for Washingtonian, worked on Howard Dean's presidential campaign after graduating from Harvard College. Graff tells us that the book "will examine some of the themes developed in Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' as they pertain to politics and campaigning, as well as looking at how online activism and fundraising will reshape the way we think of politics."
It'll chronicle ex-VA Gov. Mark Warner, who Graff calls the first "dot.com candidate."
Other political books we're wathcing: Peter Wallsten and Tom Hamburger's One Party Country: The Republican Plan for Dominance in the 21st Century
Matthew Dowd, Ron Fournier and Doug Sosnik's Applebee America
Mark Halperin and John Harris's The Way to Win: Clinton, Bush, Rove, and the Trade Secrets for Taking the White House in 2008
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