Wave of pro-Trump books coming in summer, fall

NEW YORK — In a year dominated by such antiTrump best-sellers 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 Trump-led 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.”

None of the upcoming works are likely to approach the popularity of “Fire and Fury,” which has sold over 1 million copies. But sales have been solid for pro-Trump releases, some promoted on Fox and other conservative outlets, and by the president himself. According to NPD BookScan, which tracks around 85 percent of print sales, Corey Lewandowski’s and David Bossie’s “Let Trump Be Trump” has sold more than 100,000 copies since coming out last December, Newt Gingrich’s “Trump’s America” more than 50,000 copies since early June and Jerome Corsi’s “Killing the Deep State” more than 60,000 since May.