Melania Trump’s memoir has been on the New York Times bestseller list for 10 weeks and is back in the top position this week.

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Melania

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• Trump, Melania (Author)
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• 256 Pages - 10/08/2024 (Publication Date) - Skyhorse (Publisher)

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Out early next year: Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History by Chris Whipple.

“A disastrous debate, a would-be assassin’s bullet, an electrifying eleventh hour candidate swap, dramatic and surprising VP selections, betrayals behind closed doors, charges of a stolen election, game-changing blunders—the history-making 2024 presidential election is a political saga of Shakespearean proportions.”

Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History

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• Whipple, Chris (Author)
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• 304 Pages - 04/08/2025 (Publication Date) - Harper Influence (Publisher)

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Oliver Darcy: “Two of the journalists toughest on Joe Biden are teaming up to write a campaign book focused largely on the president.”

“CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Axios national political correspondent Alex Thompson, both of whom have treated the president to an unrelenting stream of hawkish coverage, have started reaching out to figures in Bidenworld as they begin reporting out their book, I’m told.”

“Unlike many of the campaign books due out next year, which center mostly on President-elect Donald Trump’s astonishing return to power, I’m told that Tapper and Thompson are focusing most of their efforts on the drama that Biden’s initial insistence on staying in the 2024 race, followed by his eventual exit, gave way to in Democratic politics.”

Donald Trump campaign issued an unusual statement, preemptively saying it will not comment on forthcoming book from Michael Wolff:

“As a group, we have decided not to respond to his bad faith inquiries, and we encourage others to completely disregard whatever nonsense he eventually publishes. Consider this our blanket response to whatever he writes,” read the statement signed by 15 staffers.”

Wolff had recently told the Daily Beast that Jeffrey Epstein had photos of Trump with “topless young women” sitting in his lap.

Bill Clinton writes in his new book of his “frustration” at being questioned about his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky while acknowledging that he has never apologized to her directly, The Guardian reports.

Citizen: My Life After the White House

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• Clinton, Bill (Author)
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• 442 Pages - 11/19/2024 (Publication Date) - Knopf (Publisher)

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Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, a novel set in a totalitarian society, has shot to the top of Amazon’s bestselling books list following Donald Trump’s reelection, CNN reports.

“The Handmaid’s Tale takes place in a theocratic, male-dominated future America where the US Constitution is suspended, media is censored and women (the titular ‘handmaids’) are forced to bear children for the ruling class.”

The Handmaid's Tale

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• Atwood, Margaret (Author)
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• 325 Pages - 02/17/1986 (Publication Date) - Ecco (Publisher)

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Jonathan Martin: “If nothing else, the age of Trump has made abundantly clear that the post-World War II political consensus in America is over. With elections more an outgrowth of identity than a reflection of preference, the country has returned to a post-Civil War politics, when, as the saying went, people ‘vote as they shot’ in the years after the war.”

“I’ve been thinking about that period for two years, since reading Jon Grinspan’s book, The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought To Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915. Grinspan, a historian at the Smithsonian, details another period of technological disruption, high immigration rates and, yes, close presidential races with soaring turnout and anger that metastasized into violence. And he also writes about how it ended after the turn of the century, chronicling the reformers who sanitized politics into what it was until the first decades of this century.”

“It turns out I’m not the only one who has turned to the past to better grasp the present. Grinspan’s book has quietly become something of a cult favorite with lawmakers also eager to understand this new, convulsive era of politics — and what can be done to tame it.”

The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915

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• Grinspan, Jon (Author)
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• 384 Pages - 04/27/2021 (Publication Date) - Bloomsbury Publishing (Publisher)

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“Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell delivered a scathing assessment of the modern Republican Party in an upcoming biography, saying the ‘MAGA movement is completely wrong’ and that Ronald Reagan ‘wouldn’t recognize’ the party today,” CNN reports.

Said McConnell: “I think Trump was the biggest factor in changing the Republican Party from what Ronald Reagan viewed and he wouldn’t recognize today.”

The Price of Power: How Mitch McConnell Mastered the Senate, Changed America, and Lost His Party

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• 410 Pages - 10/29/2024 (Publication Date) - Simon & Schuster (Publisher)

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“In a biography set to publish a week before the election, Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell backed special counsel Jack Smith and said he hopes former President Trump will ‘pay a price’ for his role in Jan. 6th,” Axios reports.

Said McConnell: “If he hasn’t committed indictable offenses, I don’t know what one is.”

He added: “There’s no doubt who inspired it, and I just hope that he’ll have to pay a price for it.”

In his forthcoming book, American Reckoning, Jonathan Alter reports that Nancy Pelosi resented the passivity of party royals, like Barack Obama and Chuck Schumer, after the president’s debate performance, Vanity Fair reports.

Said one insider: “The men were MIA. She wasn’t happy that the only bloody fingerprints on the knife were hers.”

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American Reckoning: Inside Trump’s Trial―and My Own

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• Alter, Jonathan (Author)
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• 256 Pages - 10/22/2024 (Publication Date) - BenBella Books (Publisher)

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The only text on the jacket of Melania Trump’s new memoir, aside from the title, is an endorsement from Donald Trump, New York Magazine reports.

Yet at a September 19 rally, the former president said he hadn’t read his wife’s forthcoming memoir because he’s “so busy.”

“Considering this admission and the way the cover blurb sounds nothing like Trump, it seems safe to say he did not write the endorsement.”

The Washington Post reviews Melania Trump’s new memoir:

So where does Melania — a plain-black-covered book written by a woman who rightly assumes she needs no other introduction — fall into this pantheon of first lady memoirs? Let’s check:

“Over the next few months, we developed several items: the Fluid Day Serum, the Luxe Night with Vitamins A and E, cleansing balm, and an exfoliating peel, all priced between $50 and $150. In my meetings with chemists, I discovered the rejuvenating properties of caviar.”

Where are we? What are we doing? We’re trying to launch a retail empire, of course, as a 2011 Melania Trump teams up with a company run by “successful businesspeople” to introduce the American public (the “consumer base”) to a “line of high-end skincare products” because, after all, “people frequently asked me about my regimen, marveling at the health of my skin,” and so, you see, what she really wanted to do was find a way to “empower women,” and if that means charging you $150 an ounce to put fish eggs on your face, then so be it. Ladies, patriotism looks different for everyone.

The New York Times reviews Melania by Melania Trump:

“Better brew a double before cracking Melania, which, though clad in a black cover — a choice that could symbolize mourning, sophistication or more likely abject nothingness — is a brazen whitewash of a presidency and a marriage of some tumult.”