{"id":2022360,"date":"2023-09-05T15:34:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T19:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/books-on-biden-fail-to-draw-public-interest-biden-never-does-anything-interesting\/"},"modified":"2023-09-05T15:36:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T19:36:24","slug":"books-on-biden-fail-to-draw-public-interest-biden-never-does-anything-interesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/books-on-biden-fail-to-draw-public-interest-biden-never-does-anything-interesting\/","title":{"rendered":"Books about Biden struggle to capture public attention due to a perceived lack of excitement in his actions."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbooks-on-biden-fail-to-draw-public-interest-biden-never-does-anything-interesting%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2022360&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Books on President Joe \u2063Biden Struggle\u200c to \u200dCapture Public \u2062Interest<\/h2>\n<p>Authors delving into the world of President Joe Biden and his presidency have been left disappointed as their books \u2063fail\u200c to \u200dgenerate the same \u2063level of excitement and sales as those about his predecessor. In fact, many of these books only manage to sell a fraction of \u2063what books on Trump achieved.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>For example, NBC News\u2019s Jonathan\u2062 Allen published a book\u200b on Hillary Clinton&#8217;s 2016 campaign in 2017 and Biden&#8217;s campaign in 2021. \u200c <strong>Shattered: Inside Hillary\u200b Clinton\u2019s Doomed \u200bCampaign<\/strong> sold more than 125,000 \u2062copies and landed on the New York Times bestseller\u2064 list, while <strong>Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency<\/strong> has sold just 10,000 copies, according to Politico, using statistics from NPD Bookscan.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Related books\u200d on\u200d the topic have fared\u200b even worse. <strong>The Long \u2062Alliance: The Imperfect Union of Joe Biden and Barack Obama<\/strong> by\u200b New York magazine writer Gabriel Debenedetti has \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/despite-heavy-media-support-hunter-bidens-book-fails-to-make-top-10\/\" title=\"Despite Heavy Media Support, Hunter Biden\u2019s Book Fails To Make Top 10\">sold fewer<\/a> than 1,500 copies,\u2062 while <strong>The Fight of His \u200dLife: Inside Joe Biden\u2019s White House<\/strong> by Chris Whipple and <strong>The Bidens: \u200cInside the First Family\u2019s Fifty-Year Rise to Power<\/strong> by Politico\u2019s Ben Schreckinger have both sold under 5,000 copies.<\/p>\n<p>In stark contrast, books on Trump and his administration consistently sold significantly more. <strong>Fire and Fury<\/strong> by\u200d Michael Wolff, centered on Trump, sold over a million copies, while <strong>Peril<\/strong> by Bob Woodward \u2063and\u2064 Robert\u2062 Costa sold roughly 400,000.<\/p>\n<p>When speaking with\u200d experts in publishing and the authors themselves, Politico discovered a common theme:\u2063 the perceived lack of excitement surrounding the Biden administration compared to the chaos and drama of the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cBiden never\u200d does anything \u2062interesting,\u201d Eric Nelson,\u2064 the publisher of HarperCollins\u2019s\u200c conservative \u2062imprint Broadside Books, told the \u200doutlet. \u201cThe Hunter Biden stuff has done pretty well because he\u2019s appropriately interesting. But Hunter \u2064Biden is not the \u200dpresident.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/books-on-biden-fail-to-draw-public-interest-biden-never-does-anything-interesting\/\" title=\"Books about Biden struggle to capture public attention due to a perceived lack of excitement in his actions.\">major \u2062conservative publisher \u2062added<\/a>, \u201cIf your nickname\u200d is Sleepy Joe, you kind of have to simultaneously say this\u200c person is ruining everything\u200c and is supremely \u2064evil but also \u2062he\u2019s inept, and that\u2019s sort of a \u200bchallenging combination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Keith Urbahn, \u200bthe president and founding partner of Javelin,\u2062 experienced great success with authors\u2064 like former FBI director\u200b James Comey and former national security adviser John \u200cBolton. \u200cHowever, he noted that \u2064the interest in political books\u2063 declined significantly in 2021, as the Trump era&#8217;s intrigue and drama gave way to a desire for more \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-not-minority-rule-its-the-point\/\" title=\"It\u2019s Not \u2018Minority Rule,\u2019 It\u2019s The Point\">stable governance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThere was a sugar high in \u200dthe Trump era\u200d from intrigue, the \u2062leakings, the nonstop drama, which was at once exhausting \u200cbut also generated billions of \u200cdollars \u200bin clicks, book sales, cable ratings, and \u2062in 2021, that \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/putins-war-against-the-west-is-just-beginning\/\" title=\"Putin\u2019s War Against the West Is Just Beginning\">interest fell<\/a> off\u200b a cliff,\u201d Urbahn said. \u201cWhat makes for\u2063 stable governance makes less dramatic copy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Interestingly, this issue was not encountered by former President Barack Obama, whose books consistently become bestsellers. His fourth book, <strong>A Promised Land<\/strong>, set a first-day sales record of over 890,000 copies sold,\u200d according to Forbes. Within a month,\u200d it had sold \u20633 million, as reported by the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly,\u200b former President George W. Bush&#8217;s <strong>Decision Points<\/strong> sold 220,000 copies on its first day and over 2 million within\u200d a month, as reported by Business Insider.<\/p>\n<p>However, it is worth noting that memoirs written by \u200dpresidents tend to sell more copies than books about them. Only time will tell how many copies\u2062 Biden&#8217;s memoirs would sell.<\/p>\n<h3>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">here<\/a> for more from The Washington Examiner<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>garner limited attention, selling far less than those on his predecessor. Disappointed authors exploring Biden&#8217;s presidency witness lackluster sales, unlike the thriving market during Trump&#8217;s tenure. Often, comprehensive books on Biden struggle to captivate readers, leaving them wanting for more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2022361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2022360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2022360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2022361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2022360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2022360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2022360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}