Evidently its the season to heap vast amounts of shameful detail on sleazy politicians who were long ago buried alive in vast amounts of shameful detail. Not a week after Andrew Young, the malleable former aide to John Edwards, released The Politician, the New York Daily News has reported that Staying True , a memoir by Jenny Sanford, the soon-to-be ex-wife of the disgraced satyr-governor of South Carolina, Mark Sanford, will come out this Friday. . .

That’s the question poised in Clark Hoyt‘s public editor column in the New York Times this Sunday, as Game Change tops the paper’s nonfiction best-sellers list. The “racy” stories of “dysfunctional” relationships are captivaating, but led Hoyt to a question of journalistic ethics: “How do you deal with a talker of a book reported in a way that the paper’s own standards do not permit?”

Last night’s 20/20 featured an exclusive interview by Bob Woodruff with Andrew Young, a former John Edwards aide and author of the upcoming tell-all The Politician. 8.1 million people watched, the highest-rated 20/20 in nearly three months. If you missed it, we’ve got a clip from the show, detailing Edwards’ reaction immediately after the National Enquirer caught him at the Beverly Hilton visiting Rielle Hunter and their child.

Someone over at the WSJ blog ‘Washington Wire’ apparently managed to snag an early version of former John Edwards aide Andrew Young’s upcoming tell-all ‘The Politician.’ If you’re not already entirely disgusted with Edwards these remaining tidbits should do the trick:

“I think the members of the mainstream media would rather see the earth explode first than to reward us with a Pulitzer Prize” The National Enquirer’s executive editor Barry Levine describing his newspaper’s chances of getting a Pulitzer nomination for their coverage of John Edwards‘ affair with Rielle Hunter.

Gawker is reporting that John Edwards and Rielle Hunter made a sex tape that was found by Andrew Young, the one-time Edwards aide and author of The Politician, a new book whose released pushed Edwards to admit his paternity of Hunter’s daughter. But couldn’t this just be another publicity push for Young’s book? Sourced only by anonymous parties leaking info to Gawker, it all seems like too perfect of a storm. Young’s book comes out February 2nd.

When John Edwards finally admitted paternity of his daughter by mistress Rielle Hunter — in the wake of not one, but two damning books — many disappointed Democrats breathed a sigh of relief that the man’s career was dead and gone. Time, on the other hand, started crafting an article about Edwards’ comeback entitled “Rehabilitating John Edwards: Difficult but not Impossible.”

After months and months of denials, followed by damaging (and sometimes creepy) revelations John Edwards has finally publicly admitted that he is the father of former mistress Rielle Hunter’s child.

Ten days ago the New York Times ran a A-1 takedown piece on John Edwards that relied heavily on revelations made in a book proposal by former Edwards aide Andrew Young. Politico has now taken the time to do what the NYT didn’t do in their original piece and provide some background on Young. It ain’t pretty.

By now you probably have heard about the John Edwards-related book proposal splashed on the front page of the New York Times this weekend. But you may not have heard it explained by Geraldo Rivera.

The Fox News host has a unique storytelling method, and when confronted with a story as salacious as the Edwards scandal, Geraldo is at his best. This weekend he didn’t disappoint.

The New York Times is not going to be scooped by the National Enquirer anymore! The Times is running an A-1 story today about the latest developments in the John Edwards “drama” and its plenty sordid. However there is something slightly more worrisome than Edward’s alleged behavior. Many of the most damning elements of the piece are paraphrased from a book proposal that has just gone out to publishers. Did anyone vet this proposal?