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LOS ANGELES TIMES
( ~Gates' ( Sta' tu' s c· ould . \. Editi~n:FRI. ~iliTRO MAR SECTION, 22, 1991 PAGE 41
Jeopardize Book Deal
• Fallout: Autobiography might be difficult to sell if he
. is no longer chief, publishing experts say.
By GLENN F. BUNTING
TIMES STAFF WRITER
Beyond his desire to restore
public confidence in the Los Angeles
Police Department, Daryl F.
Gates has another incentive to ride
out the public uproar over- the
· Rodney G. King beating: He signed
a $300,000 deal last year for a book
that publishing experts say might
be difficult to market if he were no
longer chief.
According to interviews with
book publishers and agents, the
contract for his autobiography ·. ·
would be in jeopardy if Gates
· succumbed to growing demands for
his resignation.
he finds himself out of a job
·~If
somehow> his book is worth nothing,"
said Esther Newberg, vice
president of the New York literary
agency International Creative
Management.
Gates was not available for comment
Thursday on his autobiography,
which is to ,be published by
Bantam Books. Co-author Steve
Daryl F. Gates
Los Angeles Times
Delsohn said he has finished interviewing
Gates but plans to revisit
the chief to fully explore the King
beating.
"Knowing the chief, he would
not want to dodge or neglect
something of this kind of importance,"
Delsolin s·aid. He added: "The way I feel is the
book doesn't matter right now. What matters is [that]
the city start healing." ·
On Wednesday, Mayor Tom Bradley said "the only
-way" for the Police Department to. recover from the
controversy is for Gates "to remove himself' from
office. Gates has insisted that he has no plans to retire.
A Bantam spokesman said the publisher is still in
Gates' corner.
"[The King beating] was obviously a terrible and
unfprtunate incident, but it doesn't change our plans
and our commitment to Chief Gates," Stuart Applebaum
said. "It's not our style to back away from
·somebody just because tliey are going through a
difficult time." .
Applebaum had said in a December interview that
Gates' memoirs, written in a first-person narrative,
·would attract nationwide interest because of the
"glamour and charisma" of the Los Angel~s, Police
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