Romenesko

New Republic
"I was just astounded at how vindictive he was," says Joan Duffy, who covered Mike Huckabee for the Memphis Commercial Appeal. "He took it all so personally. You're either with him, or you're a mortal enemy." Arkansas Times editor Max Brantley provides Gabriel Sherman with several letters faxed to him by Huckabee over a decade ago. In them, "a surprising -- and furious -- side of the former governor comes through," writes Sherman.