Booming sales for Woodward’s ‘Fear,’ Trump presidency book
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NEW YORK — Bob Woodward’s “Fear” is spreading quickly.
Woodward’s account of a dysfunctional Trump White House has already sold more than 750,000 copies, Simon & Schuster announced Wednesday, a day after the book arrived in stores.
“Fear” is virtually assured of joining Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury” as a million-selling takedown of Trump. The pace of sales, which include print, e-books and an audio edition, is among the fastest in memory for a nonfiction work. In 2004, Bill Clinton’s memoir “My Life” sold more than 1 million copies within eight days.
“Fear” has dominated political headlines since reports about it emerged last week. The book portrays Trump as an ill-informed and dishonest president and the West Wing staff as trying to minimize the damage. As with “Fire and Fury” and other anti-Trump books, the president has condemned “Fear” as false. Some former White House officials who spoke with Woodward have tried to distance themselves from the book.
