FILE - This Feb. 2, 2012 file photo shows then Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner during a news conference at the Treasury Department in Washington. Geithner will write a book focusing on his response to the financial crisis, The Associated Press has learned. Geithner, 51, will be represented by Washington-based attorney Robert Barnett, who confirmed Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013, that Geithner would be meeting with publishers, but otherwise declined comment. Barnett has negotiated deals for President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, file)
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FILE - This Feb. 2, 2012 file photo shows then Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner during a news conference at the Treasury Department in Washington. Geithner will write a book focusing on his response to the financial crisis, The Associated Press has learned. Geithner, 51, will be represented by Washington-based attorney Robert Barnett, who confirmed Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013, that Geithner would be meeting with publishers, but otherwise declined comment. Barnett has negotiated deals for President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, file)
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Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., sits before the committee he has served on for 28 years and led for the past four as he seeks confirmation as U.S. secretary of state, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Kerry, who is likely to face friendly questioning on a smooth path to approval, is President Barack Obama's choice to succeed Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton who is stepping down after four years as America's top diplomat. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., right, is greeted by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, prior to testifying before his confirmation hearing before the committee to replace Clinton. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. is at left. Kerry is likely to face friendly questioning on a smooth path to approval before the committee he has served on for 28 years and led for the past four. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., second from right, and his wife Teresa Heinz, right, watch as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, center, flanked by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., left , and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz, reacts during the start of his Kerry's confirmation hearing to replace Clinton, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, before the committee's confirmation hearing to become the next top diplomat, replacing Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Senate Foreign Relations Chairman John Kerry, D-Mass. gestures as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, during his confirmation hearing before the committee to become the next top diplomat, replacing Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., second from right, speaks with committee member Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., right, as he arrives for the start of his confirmation hearing to become the next top diplomat, replacing Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, center seated, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. is at left. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sits between Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., right, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, during the committee's confirmation hearing for committee chairman Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., to replace Clinton. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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President Barack Obama waves from the window of his motorcade vehicle as he returns from a workout at Marine Corp Base Hawaii, Monday, Dec. 24, 2012, in Kailua, Hawaii. The president and the first family are in Hawaii for a family holiday vacation. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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FILE - This Dec. 3, 2012 file photo shows Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. The top contenders for the “big three” jobs in President Barack Obama’s Cabinet are white men, raising fresh concerns among Democratic women about diversity in the president’s inner-circle. Their long-simmering worries were rekindled after Susan Rice withdrew under pressure from consideration as the next secretary of state. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
AP NewsBreak: Timothy Geithner planning book
NEW YORK (
AP) — Former
Treasury Secretary
Timothy Geithner will write a book focusing on his response to the financial crisis, The
Associated Press has learned.
Geithner, 51, will be represented by Washington-based attorney Robert Barnett, who confirmed Wednesday that Geithner would be meeting with publishers, but otherwise declined comment. Barnett has negotiated deals for President Barack Obama, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and many others. Clinton said recently that she hoped to write a book.
Few treasury secretaries have attracted as much attention as Geithner, who has been praised for helping to prevent a second Great Depression, but criticized for being too sympathetic to Wall Street.
Geithner, who stepped down Jan. 25, was the last remaining original economic adviser to Obama. In an Associated Press interview given shortly before he left office, he defended such controversial actions as bailing out large banks, saying, "It is very hard to convince people or make credible to people the risks that we were living with at that time. That we could have had a much deeper collapse of not just the U.S. economy but the global economy."
Geithner has not started writing the book and no timetable has been set for a deal, but an official with knowledge of his plans says the goal is for publication in 2014. The official asked not to be identified, saying that no formal announcement would be made until an agreement is reached with a publisher.
Also Wednesday, the Council on Foreign Relations announced that Geithner will become a distinguished fellow with the organization. Geithner had previously been a senior fellow with the council in 2001 after he stepped down as Treasury undersecretary for international affairs in the administration of President Bill Clinton.
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