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There is no sitting American president who has been the subject of as many books as Donald Trump, and the interest in reading about him is great.
Of course, Abraham Lincoln is considered the president about whom the most books have been written – some 15,000 titles, from serial albums to gigantic scholarly works. But Lincoln, who generally wins votes for the most popular president of the United States, has employed researchers and writers for more than 150 years; died in 1865.
Trump has only been an active politician for more than four years, but he is the title character in more than 1,200 books, with more on the way. It can be compared with the book harvest of his representative Barack Obama, which stands at 500 titles.
Nestorn bland American presidential critic Bob Woodward has even published two books on Donald Trump, “Fear,” which was published in 2018, and “Rage,” which was published in September this year.
Michael Wolff’s book sold a quarter of a million copies in a few days.
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But Woodward, whose books regularly top the best-seller lists, has faced stiff competition. For example, by his colleague Michael Wolff, who shortly after New Year’s weekend in 2018 published “Fire and Fury,” a detailed description of Trump’s first year as president.
Wolff’s wildly publicized book sold a quarter of a million copies in its early days alone and more than two million copies in its first year. The rights have been sold to more than 30 countries. A Swedish translation was already published in March 2018 by the modernist publisher, “Fire and Fury – The White House from inside”.
This summer, Trumps gave niece Mary L Trump published the book “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the Most Dangerous Man in the World” (“Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the Most Dangerous Man in the World”). Mary L Trump describes her uncle the president as a determined and deeply empathetic person, born of a dysfunctional family.
Mary Trump wrote critically about her uncle.
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And interest in Donald Trump’s family background was enormous among the American book-reading public. During the first day on the market, “Too Much and Never Enough” sold no less than 950,000 copies, according to publisher Simon & Schuster. That figure also includes audiobooks, e-books, and pre-reserved copies.
Almost at the same time came Trump’s former security adviser John Bolton published a book about the 18 months (March 2018 to September 2019) that he spent on the president’s staff.
The book, titled “The Room Where It Happened,” received additional publicity because the Drum Administration wanted the book stopped, as they claimed Bolton was revealing classified information. “The Room Where It Happened” got pretty bad reviews, but it sold pretty well: 780,000 copies during the first week of listing.
Bolton’s book represents a strong trend among Trump’s books: a large portion of the most notable titles are what are called tell-alls, books written by people who worked closely with the president and thus gained access. to particularly exciting information.
Trump has had as a habit of laying off employees on the assembly line. And a long list of them has described the former boss in book form, almost without exception in negative terms. Recently, Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, published “Disleyal: A Memoir.” In the book, Cohen describes, among other things, how he came to testify against Trump in the Mueller investigation into alleged Russian involvement in the election campaign.
Former FBI Director James Comey also wrote a book.
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Others close to Trump who take the magazine by mouth include former FBI chief James Comey, who published “Greater Loyalty” in the spring of 2018, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, former adviser to US First Lady Melania Trump, and former secretaries of press Sean Spicer and Anthony Scaramucci.
Additionally, several books have been written about the president’s heartbreaking tweet and at least one about his golf cheating.
There has even been a book reviewing the books on Trump. Carlos Lozada, a nonfiction critic for the New York Times, recently published “What We Were Thinking About” in which he selected 150 titles about the president and tried to reason about what they say about the American zeitgeist.
And the gigantic pile of books created by the Trump presidency has done its part to lift the book industry in America. In a situation where the covid-19 pandemic is putting a dead hand on many companies, US book sales are up nearly 6 percent compared to last year, statistics from the website show. the industry npd.com.
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