Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of former President Donald Trump and one of his top advisers during his administration, has a book deal.
Broadside Books, a conservative imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, announced that Kushner’s book will come out in early 2022. Kushner has begun working on the memoir, currently untitled, and is expected to write about everything from the Middle East to criminal justice reform to the pandemic.
“His book will be the definitive, thorough recounting of the administration – and the truth about what happened behind closed doors,” Broadside announced Tuesday.
Financial terms were not disclosed.
Kushner was often at the center of the Trump administration’s policies – whether brokering the normalization of relationships between Israel and United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco – the Abraham Accords – or playing a key role in a criminal justice bill passed by Congress in 2018.
The signing of Kushner comes during an ongoing debate within the book industry over which Trump officials, notably Trump himself, can be taken on without starting a revolt at the publishing house. Thousands of Simon & Schuster employees and authors signed an open letter this spring condemning the publisher’s decision to sign up former Vice President Mike Pence.
At a Simon & Schuster town hall in May, employees confronted CEO Jonathan Karp, who responded that he felt the company had a mission to hear opposing sides of political debates. He also said that he did not want to publish Trump, who issued his 2015 book “Crippled America” through the Simon & Schuster imprint Threshold Editions, because he didn’t think the former president would provide an honest account of his time in office.
(AP)
3 Responses
Will it be a coloring book?
RT, no, he’s not writing to your level. Maybe Joe Biden in his second childhood can write to your level.
Yes rt. Exactly what it will be.