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The Golden Bookmark Award

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David Ellis

ALLEN NEUHARTH

The former chairman of Gannett newspapers and founder of USA Today hit the best-seller list last year with his Confessions of an S.O.B. Now it turns out that the foundation he heads spent $40,000 to buy 2,000 copies of the book — at retail price — at various bookstores around the country.

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