Expect a wave of pro-Trump books to be released this summer and fall

NEW YORK In a year dominated by such anti-Trump bestsellers as “Fire and Fury” and “A Higher Loyalty,” a conservative counter-wave is growing.

Over the next few months, at least half a dozen proTrump and/or anti-Russian investigation books are scheduled. They range from insider accounts by former White House officials Sean Spicer and Anthony Scaramucci, both of whom have defended President Donald Trump despite their tumultuous times in Washington, to books from such Fox News regulars as Jeanine Pirro, Alan Dershowitz and former Rep. Jason Chaffetz. Several of the upcoming releases serve as a publishing arm to the Trumpled attack against special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into his campaign’s Russia ties.

“I think you have various books seeking to be the anti’Fire and Fury,’” says Eric Nelson, editorial director of Broadside Books, a conservative imprint of HarperCollins Publishers that is releasing Chaffetz’s “The Deep State: How an Army of Bureaucrats Protected Barack Obama and Is Working to Destroy Donald Trump” and Gregg Jarrett’s “The Russia Hoax: The Illicit Scheme to Clear Hillary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump.”

“There’s an audience out there and we’re trying to serve it," says Rolf Zettersten, founder and publisher of the conservative Center Street imprint, where authors include Newt Gingrich, Corey Lewandowski, Scaramucci and Pirro. Zettersten started the Nashville-based Center Street, part of Hachette Book Group, in 2004 as a publisher for books appealing to the “heartland.” He said that Trump’s election had led to a bigger market for topical works.

“I think it speaks to the sense that we’re more polarized than in years past,” he says.