Steve Laffey, the guy who challenged Sen. Chafee of Rhode Island in last year’s GOP primary, has a book coming out in September — Primary Mistake: A Candidate’s Tale of How Washington Republicans Tried to Squash a Reagan Conservative but Instead Lost Everything. I read some very early drafts a few months ago and although I’m sure parts have been rewritten, it’s a snappy account of a conservative underdog’s bid to take on the GOP establishment.

The Projo has more:

Laffey will argue in the book that his race epitomized what went wrong with the Republican Party, which lost control of the House and Senate in the last election. “The national Republican Party lost power because it put power in front of principle,” Laffey said yesterday. “I wanted to set forth some principles that we should hold on to.”
His editor at Penguin Group, Bernadette Malone Serton, said that Laffey tells the story of the campaign with stunning candor.
“Steve Laffey is so candid in talking about what Washington Republicans did to him that the rest of the country needs to know why they lost the Senate in 2006,” she said.
“And he names names in his book,” she promised.