Trump book tracker
A Roundup of Books About Trump and Anything Related to the Trump Presidency
By Howard Polskin
The Trump presidency was a boon to the book publishing industry. He may be gone from the White House, but there’s still plenty to digest from his four-year whirlwind of disinformation and chaos that characterized his presidency. Plenty of journalists and insiders have been hard at work cranking out their tomes.Here’s what’s coming over the next two years.
Since first publishing in early 2021, we added a new section about books related to the Trump presidency (meaning they aren’t specifically about the former president). And we intend to update regularly so authors and publishers are invited to update us (therighting(AT)therighting.com) Happy reading!
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*Authors: Peter Baker and Susan Glasser
Title: The Divider: Trump in the White House 2017-2021
What it’s about: A weighty (more than 700 print pages) examination of the Trump years in office by a pair of veteran DC journalists.
Pub date: September 20, 2022
Publisher: Doubleday
Surprising fact about the authors: They met at the Washington Post, where Glasser was Baker’s editor. They eventually married.
Startling details: When Trump instructed Homeland Security chief Kirstjen Nielsen to do something he wanted, he usually added, Honey, just do it. She was also referred to by some on the White House staff as Nurse Ratched while Jared Kushner was called (behind his back) the Slim Reaper.
Author: Jared Kushner
Title: Breaking History: A White House Memoir
What it’s about: President Trump’s son-in-law doesn’t spill any beans in his recollection of his accomplishments during the four years he spent at the White House.
Publisher: Broadside e-books
Pub date: August 23, 2022
Biggest embarrassment: The reviews have been savage led by the NY Times publishing an already legendary pan and Slate calling it “the worst Trump memoir yet.”
*Author: Mark Leibovich
Title: Thank You for Your Servitude: Donald Trump’s Washington and the Price of Submission
What it’s about: The focus is not so much on Donald Trump but the Republican boot-lickers who enabled his behavior during his four years in office.
Pub date: July 12, 2022
Publisher: Penguin
Surprising fact: This book will make you laugh out loud. Leibovich is perhaps the funniest political journalist of his generation.
Author: Former U.S. Attorney General William Barr
Title: One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General
What it’s about: A first-person account of serving two presidents: H.W. Bush and Donald Trump
Pub Date: March 8, 2022
Publisher: William Morrow
Surprising fact: He calls the allegations about “fixed” voting machines ““an idiotic theory that had no basis in reality.”
Our favorite part of the book: The title. Seems to sum up what it’s like to work for Donald Trump in five short words.
Author: Andy Slavitt
What it’s about: A deep dive into the Trump administration’s failed response to the global pandemic
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Pub date: June 15, 2021
Impressive fact you may have forgotten: Slavitt knows how to get things done. He’s the Obama administration’s former acting chief of Medicare and Medicaid who then helped overhaul the slipshod rollout of its healthcare.gov website.
Authors: Washington Post reporters Yasmeen Abutaleb, Damian Paletta
What it’s about: An inside look into the bungled White House response to the pandemic. The reporting shows how essentially no one was in charge as office attempt to wish away the crisis.
Publisher: Harper
Pub date: June 29, 2021
Surprising fact: On March 18, 2020, President Trump called then-Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and screamed that he was going to lose the election because of Federal testing for Covid. “What idiot had the federal government do testing?” Trump asked according to a story about the book in the Washington Post. “Uh, you mean Jared?” replied Azar.
Author: Michael Wolff
Title: Landslide
What’s it about: The final days of the Trump presidency
Previous Trump books: Fire and Fury and Siege.
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Pub date: July 13, 2021
Surprising fact: That anyone in the Trump White House would speak to Wolff after the publication of his first two books on the former president.
Author: Michael C. Bender
Upcoming Book: Frankly, We Did Win This election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost
Publisher: Twelve
Pub date: July 13, 2021
What it’s about: The Wall Street Journal’s senior White House correspondent offers what the publisher says is the definitive account of Trump’s final year in office.
This proves the author is a Trump expert: Over the course of five years, Bender has written more than 1,100 stories about Trump
Surprising fact: The author is married to Washington Post White House bureau chief Ashley Parker.
Authors: Washington Post reporters Philip Rucker, Carol Leonnig
Title: I Alone Can Fix It
What it’s about: A look at Trump’s last year in office.
Previous Trump book: A Very Stable Genius
Publisher: Penguin
Pub date: July 20, 2021
Surprising fact: After publication of their first book (which became a best seller), President Trump tweeted that they were “stone, cold losers.”
Author: Mary Trump
Title: The Reckoning: Our Nation’s Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal
What it’s about: The second book from Trump’s niece. It will examine America’s national ordeal that was exacerbated by the Trump administration’s “corrupt and immoral policies.”
Previous Trump book: Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Pub date: August17, 2021
Surprising fact: In December 2020, Mary Trump hosted an online fundraiser for New York mayoral candidate Maya Wiley, an MSNBC contributor.
Authors: Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa
Title: Peril
What it’s about: The final days of the Trump presidency as it transitioned into the Biden presidency
Previous Trump book: Woodward’s “Rage” and “Fear”
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pub date: September 21, 2021
Surprising fact: While in high school in Bucks Country, PA, Costa brought musicians like Maroon 5 and John Mayer to perform.
Author: Stephanie Grisham
Title: I’ll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw at the Trump White House
Publisher: HarperCollins
What it’s about: Backstage at the Donald J. Trump Show, 2015-2021. And there may be some dish about Melania’s attitudes about her husband and the rest of the Trump clan.
Author’s qualifications: Held senior comms positions in the Trump White House. Last served as Melania’s chief of staff.
Odds that she’ll spill with juicy inside details: Low
Irony alert: Grisham was famous for never holding a press briefing in the 10 months she held the position of WH press secretary. So now she’ll take questions? Sheesh….!
Pub date: October 5, 2021
Author: Mollie Hemingway
Upcoming book: Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections
Publisher: Regnery (publisher of conservative-oriented books)
What it’s about: Title seems to say it all.
Author’s day job: Senior editor at The Federalist
Previous book: Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court
Key source for the book that should surprise no one: Donald J. Trump
Pub date: October 12, 2021
Author: David Cay Johnston
Upcoming book: The Big Cheat: How Donald Trump Fleeced America and Enriched Himself and His Family
What it’s about: Veteran Trump watcher David Cay Johnston will show readers how the money flowed into Trump’s businesses during his time in office, and how his presidency was used to line his pockets even “putting national security at risk.”
Previous Trump books: The Making of Donald Trump (2016), Temples of Chance (1992; half the book is about Trump’s ventures in the casino business), and It’s Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America (2018)
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pub date: October 19, 2021
Surprising fact: The Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter is also the editor and founder of DC Report, which aims to report in plain English what’s happening in Washington and how it impacts average Americans.
Author: ABC Chief Washington correspondent Jon Karl
Title: Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show
What it’s about: Per Axios: The book will examine what becomes of Trump and Trumpism.
Previous Trump book: Front Row at the Trump Show
Publisher: Dutton
Pub date: November 17, 2021
Surprising fact: In the mid-90’s, Karl was one of CNN’s three Gen-X reporters including GOP pollster Kellyanne Fitzpatrick, who would later marry George Conway.
Author: Donald J. Trump
Title: Our Journey Together
What it’s about: It’s a picture book — with the images picked by the former president — about Trump’s four years in office.
Publisher: 45 Books
Pub date: December 7, 2021
Surprising facts: He can write?!??!!? The promo copy brags that he wrote the captions. The book costs $75! ($225 for an autographed copy)
Author: Mark Meadows
Title: The Chief’s Chief
What it’s about: Trump’s fourth and final chief of staff provides an inside look at the last year of the controversial presidency.
Publisher: All Seasons Press
Pub date: December 7, 2021
Surprising fact: Trump tested positive for Covid-19 just prior before debating then-Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in late September 2020.
Author: Dr. Scott Atlas
Title: A Plague Upon Our House: My Fight at the Trump White House to Stop Covid from Destroying America
What it’s about: Atlas was a valued coronavirus advisor to Trump and was famously critical of coronavirus restrictions. This is his account of the greatest public health crisis in this century.
Publisher: Bombardier Books
Pub Date: December 7, 2021
Surprising detail: Dr. Atlas believes that while Dr. Fauci attracted the most media attention, Dr. Birx did the most damage.
Author: Kayleigh McEnany
Title: For Such a Time as This: My Faith Journey Through the White House and Beyond
What it’s about: This relatively short book (about 200 pages) seems to focus a lot on McEnany’s faith. Readers might find some behind-the-scenes stories but McEnany promises to reveal how her faith helped her navigate the enormous challenges of her job.
Publisher: Post Hill Press
Pub date: December 7, 2021
Shocking cover choice: The former Trump White House press secretary appears on the cover of the book in a hot pink dress. It looks like a romance novel, not a memoir from someone who used to be one of the most powerful women in Washington.
Author: Marie Yovanovitch
Title: Lessons from the Edge: A Memoir
What it’s about: The former ambassador to Ukraine recalls the vicious smear campaign orchestrated by President Trump and his minions that led to her testifying in his first impeachment trial.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub date: January 2022. Was originally slated for May 4, 2021
Surprising fact: Prior to her Ukraine posting, Yovanovitch had been ambassador to Kyrgyzstan and Armenia.
Author: New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman
Title: Confidence Man: The making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
What it’s about: A look at Donald Trump’s political career
Publisher: Penguin
Pub date: October 4, 2022
Surprising fact: She’s the author of the 2003 nonfiction book “Held Captive: The Kidnapping and Rescue of Elizabeth Smart.”
Authors: Politico chief Washington correspondent Ryan Lizza, and New York magazine Washington correspondent Olivia Nuzzi.
Title: TBD
What it’s about: An inside look at the 2020 presidential campaigns of Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pub date: 2022
Startling fact you might have forgotten: It was Anthony Scaramucci’s interview with Ryan Lizza (a New Yorker writer at the time) in 2017 that blew up his 10-day White House career.
Authors: New York Times reporters Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin
Title: TBD
What it’s about: A thorough examination of the 2020 election as a pivotal moment in our nation’s political history
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pub date: 2022
Surprising fact: Martin’s wife, Elizabeth Fischer Martin, was the executive producer of NBC’s “Meet the Press” for 11 years.
Author: Ramin Setoodeh, Variety executive editor
Title: TBD
What It’s about: NBC’s hit reality-tv show “The Apprentice,” the program starring Donald Trump that changed the course of American history. According to Variety, the program showed Trump as a decisive businessman which “created an indelible image of Trump that would later be harnessed to fuel his rise to the White House.”
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pub date: TBD
Surprising fact: In the show’s first season in 2004, Trump’s girlfriend was introduced — a model by the name of Melania.
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Upcoming Books Related to the
Trump Presidency
Author: Mike Pence
Titles: The former vice president signed a two-book multi-million-dollar deal with Simon & Schuster. And that’s all that is known about it.
Pub Date: TBD
Author: Kellyanne Conway
Title: TBD
What it’s about: An “unvarnished” memoir about her time as one of President Trump’s closest advisors, according to the Daily Mail.
Pub date: TBD
Author: Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett
Title: TBD
What it’s about: Per Politico, “a tome about how judges are not supposed to bring their personal feeling into how they rule.”
Pub Date: TBD
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