Rehnquist, rejected...

Even Rehnquist - R.I.P. - had issues getting book deals:

A published author of history books, Rehnquist found himself behind the times when he tried to interest a literary agent in a whodunit he called ``Murder in the Paw Paw Tunnel.'' The agent wanted a high-tech element such as computer theft in the plot, he said in 1994. ``I don't know anything about computers, much less computer theft.''

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