As Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann tours the nation promoting her new memoir, three local writers are hitting the market this week with a book that offers a totally different picture of the 6th District congresswoman's life. 

The title sums up their point of view: "The Madness of Michele Bachmann: A Broad-Minded Survey of a Small-Minded Candidate."

The book by Ken Avidor and Eva Young of Minneapolis and Karl Bremer of Stillwater is a distillation of more than 6,000 blog posts that the trio has written since 2004 on their "DumpBachmann.com" website. It was scheduled to hit bookshelves Tuesday.

Avidor said the idea of compiling their blogs into a book came from publisher John Wiley & Sons. After laboring in obscurity for years, he said the authors were eager to expose the dirt they have dug up on Bachmann to a national audience.

"It has always been our goal to remove her from office," Avidor said.

But he and Bremer insisted the book isn't a partisan hatchet job. Avidor noted the book criticizes Democrats, such as U.S. Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken and Gov. Mark Dayton, as well as Republicans.

Bremer challenged anyone who thinks it's a malicious attack to "find fault with our facts." While they focus on the congresswoman's worst flaws, he said they are accurately depicted.

"Everybody knows about her gaffes, her stupid remarks and some of her wacky positions," he said, "but I think we go alittle bit further into some of her abuse of public office to promote herself, her lying and her lack of representation of her district."