Tag: Simon & Schuster

But last Thursday Mrs. Pelosi wrote the president, discouraging him from accepting her Jan. 3 invitation to address the nation from the House chamber next Tuesday. She cited “security concerns” and suggested the Secret Service could not protect the president if he trekked up to Capitol Hill. This kind of thing gives a bad name to pettiness. Then there are the Democrats who’ve jumped into their party’s presidential contest in the past four weeks. None did so with a traditional speech outlining an agenda and governing vision. On Jan. 15, New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, 52, described herself as a “young mom” as she broke the news about her presidential exploratory committee on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” Not to be outdone, Sen. Kamala Harris joined the race last Monday with a segment on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” bookended by news of Prince Philip’s auto accident and a United airplane stuck on a remote Canadian runway in subzero temperatures. Warren, Harris and Gillibrand got instant coverage of their announcements. Ms. Harris appeared in a video dancing to Cardi B’s “I Like It.” Really? Unfortunately, social media’s propensity for shallow, rapid-fire and often error-riddled commentary could also turn politics into even more of a reality show than it already is. I will cheer them along when they do, regardless of party, and I’m guessing plenty of other Americans will do the same.

Coming up on today's show: Steve Kornacki, MSNBC and NBC News national political correspondent and the author of The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism (Ecco, 2018), talks about his new book placing the start of today's hyper-partisanship in the 1990's; Rachel Holliday Smith, freelance reporter and producer, discusses the successes and failures of Mayor de Blasio’s Turn the Tide initiative to overhaul New York City’s shelter system and combat homelessness; 30 Issues in 30 Days: For President Trump, the tax bill is THE big thing that his administration has managed to get through congress. Jeff Cox, finance editor for CNBC.com, then Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize-winning Op-Ed columnist for the New York Times on economics and politics, talk about whether Americans are seeing effects from the policy yet, and debate--for better or for worse? ; Rebecca Traister, writer-at-large for New York Magazine and the author of Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger (Simon & Schuster, 2018), argues that despite cultural norms stifling women's public displays of anger, it has fueled political movements.

Donald Trump may have dismissed Bob Woodward’s Fear as “a joke”, but readers are showing themselves to be keen to share in the comedy, with more than 750,000 copies of the White House exposé sold in American in just one day, according to its publisher. Fear, which “depicts a White House awash in dysfunction, where the Lord of the Flies is the closest thing to an owner’s manual”, according to a review in the Guardian, was published on 11 September. The publisher has now ordered a ninth printing, bringing the total number of hardbacks in print in America to more than 1.15m. “Based on immense pre-publication and ongoing interest, the reading public clearly has an enormous appetite for what we believe, as Woodward says, is ‘a pivot point in history’.” The US chain bookstore Barnes & Noble said that the investigation by veteran reporter Woodward, who broke the story of the Watergate scandal with his Washington Post colleague Carl Bernstein, was its fastest-growing adult title since Harper Lee’s Go Set A Watchman was published in July 2014. “Fear had amazing first-day sales and is in high demand across our stores and online,” said Barnes & Noble’s Liz Harwell. “We haven’t seen an adult title sell this quickly in over three years, and are working with S&S to keep our shelves stocked to meet what we expect will be continued demand.” Fear, based on hundreds of hours of interviews, details a White House in chaos. On Monday, Trump took to Twitter to rail against it: “Just another assault against me, in a barrage of assaults, using now disproven unnamed and anonymous sources. Fear has some really explosive, damaging revelations by serious names and high-ranking members of the administration.” Comey’s memoir sold 600,000 copies in its first week on sale in the US, while Fire and Fury sold around 200,000 copies when it was first released; however, Wolff’s publisher Henry Holt’s initial print run had failed to meet the huge demand and the book would go on to sell 1.7m copies in its first three weeks. Washington DC bookshop Politics & Prose told Publishers Weekly that it had sold 60 copies of Fear in the first two hours of opening, with 300 copies on hold. “One purchased 13 copies,” said Graham.

Sen. John McCain’s upcoming memoir will include the senator’s “no-holds-barred” opinions about the 2016 election and the current state of politics. “The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations,” was signed by Simon & Schuster in February and is scheduled to be released in April, according to The Associated Press. “Candid, pragmatic, and always fascinating, John McCain holds nothing back in his latest memoir,” according to Simon & Schuster. The book will cover McCain’s life and politics since the senator’s 2008 presidential loss to Barack Obama. McCain has been a vocal critic of President Trump, a theme that will likely appear in the memoir. The feud between the two Republicans, which has been ongoing since the 2016 campaign, devolved into Twitter threats earlier this week after McCain delivered a passionate speech slamming “half-baked, spurious nationalism," which many saw as a veiled attack on Trump. McCain was diagnosed with brain cancer in July and notably returned from treatment to be the deciding vote to kill the "skinny" ObamaCare repeal bill. The book's tone is a change from the originally planned focus on international affairs and McCain’s work overseas.