Ben Frumin June 4, 2010, 4:07 PM

Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told Main Justice in an interview yesterday that he’s looking for donations to cover his extensive legal bills — and that he still hasn’t found a book publisher.

“We need to do a better effort raising additional money, and so we’re going to try to do that as soon as the last investigation [ends],” the ex-attorney general said. “That investigation has been out there going on forever. I’m not sure what’s going on there, but we’re waiting for that to be completed.”

Once it’s over, Gonzales said, “that will again raise some interest in raising additional money.”

As for the book….

Gonzales — under whose tenure the Justice Department often appeared to take its orders from the White House political office — says he’s finished about 12 chapters of what he thinks will be a 20-chapter book. He hasn’t found a publisher yet. (He also didn’t have a publisher when we checked in in December…of 2008).

“Given all the decisions that I was a part of, the decisions I witnessed, and the decisions I made, I think it will be something that will be of interest and I hope it will be a useful contribution to the historic record of the Bush legacy,” Gonzales told Main Justice.

A lot of the things that I worked on were classified and of that nature, so I’ve had to be careful about that. But I’ve been looking at articles, trying to reconstruct my schedule, things of that nature.

And of course there were many things, significant events, that I remember, that I just know about, that I can just write about.

But writing a book isn’t easy!

“Writing is a difficult thing … and sometimes I get tired of it,” Gonzales said. “But I enjoy it because it reminds me again of the challenges we had to face, and it just reconfirms in my mind all the good things we did for our country.”

Alberto Gonzales, Department of Justice, Memoir