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Wednesday 27 June 2018
Wave of pro-Trump books coming in summer and fall

By HILLEL ITALIE Ann Coulter and Bill O'Reilly.
NEW YORK (AP) — In a year While George W. Bush was
dominated by such anti- in office, liberals responded
Trump best-sellers as "Fire with publications by Paul
and Fury" and "A Higher Krugman, Michael Moore,
Loyalty," a conservative David Corn and many oth-
counter-wave is growing. ers. Al Franken, not yet a
Over the next few months, politician, wrote the 2003
at least half a dozen pro- best-seller "Lies and the Ly-
Trump and/or anti-Russian ing Liars Who Tell Them: A
investigation books are Fair and Balanced Look at
scheduled. They range the Right." Dozens of anti-
from insider accounts by Trump works have come
former White House officials out since he took office
Sean Spicer and Anthony and the number grows
Scaramucci, both of whom steadily. But the upcoming
have defended President pro-Trump publications re-
Donald Trump despite This combination photo of book cover images shows "Liars, Leakers, and Liberals" by Jeanine inforce the difference be-
their tumultuous times in Pirro. "The Russia Hoax" by Gregg Jarrett and "The Briefing" by Sean Spicer. tween his time presidency
Washington, to books from Associated Press and those of his prede-
such Fox News regulars as cessors. As Richard Nixon
Jeanine Pirro, Alan Der- that is releasing Chaffetz's ies, or James Comey's "A Pirro's "Liars, Leakers, and faced the 1970s Watergate
showitz and former Rep. "The Deep State: How an Higher Loyalty," which has Liberals: The Case Against scandal, few books came
Jason Chaffetz. Several Army of Bureaucrats Pro- sold hundreds of thousands the Anti-Trump Conspira- out in his defense and none
of the upcoming releases tected Barack Obama of copies. Comey, the FBI cy" reached the top 300 compared in impact to "All
serve as a publishing arm and Is Working to Destroy director whom Trump fired on Amazon.com's best- the President's Men," the
to the Trump-led attack Donald Trump" and Gregg last year, described the seller list three weeks be- best-seller by Washington
against special counsel Jarrett's "The Russia Hoax: president as "unethical, and fore publication. Jarrett's Post investigative reporters
Robert Mueller's probe into The Illicit Scheme to Clear untethered to truth and in- book, which Trump called Bob Woodward and Carl
his campaign's Russia ties. Hillary Clinton and Frame stitutional values." Wolff's "A MUST READ!" in a May Bernstein. The most notable
"I think you have various Donald Trump." book made headlines with tweet, made the top 300 a pro-Nixon release was "The
books seeking to be the None of the upcoming a quote from former Trump month before its release. Personal Nixon: Staying on
anti-'Fire and Fury,'" says works are likely to ap- adviser Steve Bannon, who "There's an audience out the Summit," by presidential
Eric Nelson, editorial direc- proach the popularity of labeled as "treasonous" a there and we're trying to supporter Rabbi Baruch M.
tor of Broadside Books, a "Fire and Fury," the Michael decision by Donald Trump serve it," says Rolf Zetter- Korff, who at the time said
conservative imprint of Wolff blockbuster which Jr. and others to meet in sten, founder and publisher he had personally financed
HarperCollins Publishers has sold over 1 million cop- the summer of 2016 with a of the conservative Cen- the 1974 book.
Russian attorney claiming ter Street imprint, where Now, the conservative
to have incriminating infor- authors include Gingrich, movement is far more or-
mation about Clinton, the Lewandowski, Scaramucci ganized, and publishing
Democratic presidential and Pirro. Zettersten started far quicker. The stakes may
nominee. the Nashville-based Cen- also be higher. Presidential
But sales have been solid for ter Street, part of Hachette historian Michael Beschloss
pro-Trump releases, some Book Group, in 2004 as a noted that Trump, unlike
promoted on Fox and other publisher for books appeal- Nixon, was "not only in a po-
conservative outlets, and ing to the "heartland." He sition to run for re-election
by the president himself. said that Trump's election but also facing a midterm,
According to NPD Book- had led to a bigger market in which his approval rating
Scan, which tracks around for topical works. will be an important fac-
85 percent of print sales, "I think it speaks to the sense tor." Elizabeth Drew, the au-
Corey Lewandowski's and that we're more polarized thor and longtime political
David Bossie's "Let Trump than in years past," he says. reporter, struggled to cite
Be Trump" has sold more Publishing usually works in- any pro-Nixon books during
than 100,000 copies since versely to whichever party his White House years. She
coming out last December, controls the White House. called the pro-Trump books
Newt Gingrich's "Trump's The presidencies of Bill Clin- a "phenomenon" unique to
America" more than 50,000 ton and Barack Obama his presidency.
copies since early June brought on a wave of con- "Trump is the first of presi-
and Jerome Corsi's "Killing servative best-sellers and dents in trouble to fight the
the Deep State" more than helped lead to the rise of investigation of them so
60,000 since May. such pundits as Glenn Beck, hard," she said.q