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Monday 19 deceMber 2016
Books old and new in 2016

got boost from Trump candidacy

HILLEL ITALIE harassment and Trump Wrote Roth: “Americans
AP National Writer was the president-elect. everywhere went about
NEW YORK (AP) — Books Kelly had plenty of news declaiming, No war,
by such familiar names about both. She alleged no young men fighting
as J.K. Rowling, Jeff Kin- that Ailes had made un- and dying ever again!
ney and Bill O’Reilly were wanted sexual advanc- Lindbergh can deal with
among the top sellers of es on her early in her Hitler, they said, Hitler re-
2016. But the most un- career and that Trump, spects him because he’s
In this Aug. 19, 2015 file photo, Republican presidential candi- expected presidential who consulted with Ailes Lindbergh.”
date Donald Trump holds up a copy of his 1987 book, “Trump: election in memory also during his campaign, — The United States
The Art of the Deal” during his campaign town hall event at
Pinkerton Academy in Derry, N.H. Trump’s first book is a memoir/ led to some unexpect- had tried to intimidate Constitution: For the
manifesto dedicated to a life of big-time negotiating. ed successes.Donald her even before she con- book world at least, the
Associated Press Trump’s rise from celebri- fronted him during a Re- most eventful speech at
ty candidate to improb- publican debate in 2015 the Democratic Nation-
able nominee and win- about his comments al Convention was not
ner of an historic upset about women. Kelly was given by the nominee,
brought heightened at- subjected to prolonged Hillary Rodham Clinton,
tention to books old and and highly personal at- but by the father of an
new, fiction and nonfic- tacks from Trump and American soldier killed
tion, ranging from a jour- wrote that she received in 2004 during the Iraq
nalist’s memoir complet- death threats from his War. An emotional Kh-
ed during the campaign supporters. izr Khan denounced
to the document that — Sinclair Lewis, “It Can’t Trump’s negative com-
Trump will swear to pro- Happen Here,” and Phil- ments about Muslims,
tect and defend upon ip Roth, “The Plot Against held up a copy of the
taking the oath of office. America”: Trump’s cam- Constitution and ques-
Here are five notable re- paign inspired some tioned whether Trump
leases that received a readers to seek answers had read it. The candi-
Trump Bump: in the past, not just from date responded with a
— J.D. Vance, “The Hill- history, but from dysto- wave of angry tweets,
billy Elegy”: Liberals be- pian fiction. while readers made an
fuddled by Trump’s vic- Lewis’ warning about 18th century, public do-
tory turned to Vance’s the fragility of democ- main text a best-seller.
memoir about his rela- racy was written in the Ironically, the edition
tives in rural Kentucky mid-1930s, when Na- topping the lists on Ama-
and Ohio’s rust belt. In- zis were on the rise in zon.com and elsewhere
terviewed last summer Europe and populist was not the one used
by The Associated Press, demagogues such as by Khan, but a pocket-
Vance spoke of Trump’s Huey Long of Louisiana sized publication from
appeal to the white were seen as challeng- the right-wing National
working class: “He com- ers to the re-election of Center for Constitutional
municates in a way that President Franklin Roos- Studies.— Donald Trump,
is very relatable to a lot evelt. In “It Can’t Hap- “The Art of the Deal”:
of people; it’s one of the pen Here,” Lewis imag- Published in 1987, it’s the
things that both parties ined the frightening rise first book by Trump, the
frankly have been in- of Sen. Berzelius “Buzz” one that helped make
creasingly bad at, which Windrip, whose defense him a national celebrity
is connecting to voters in of “The Forgotten Man” and the one the candi-
an emotional and kind and attacks on Mexi- date never tires of men-
of visceral way.” cans and the media tioning. His repeated
— Megyn Kelly, “Settle gave the novel renewed boasts that “Art of the
for More”: This book relevance in 2016. Deal” is the all-time busi-
was announced early Roth’s book, published ness best-seller have
in 2016, or what now in 2004, was set in the been widely disputed,
seems like distant history author’s native Newark, but the book is a mil-
when Trump was a long- New Jersey, in the early lion seller and it spent a
shot for the White House, 1940s. The premise: An good deal of the year
despite early leads in authoritarian govern- high on the charts of Am-
the polls against his GOP ment under President azon. “Art of the Deal”
primary rivals, and Roger Charles Lindbergh, the reached new readers
Ailes was the enduring aviator hero who later despite a notable dis-
leader of Fox News. By became an open anti- claimer from ghostwriter
the time the book was Semite and an “America Tony Schwartz, who re-
released in mid-Novem- First” advocate, who be- nounced the work and
ber, Ailes had been lieved the country should said if he were writing
forced out amid numer- stay out of World War II it now he would call it
ous allegations of sexual and not fight the Nazis. “The Sociopath.”