The first thing to say about Chuck Schumer’s Antisemitism in America: A Warning is that nobody wants this book. No blurbs, reviews, or endorsements grace its cover. The only praise for the author’s half-century as an elected official can be found inside the book’s pages, from Schumer himself. The curious reader who looks at the back cover will instead be greeted with an excerpt from the book that promises “the specter of antisemitism haunting the American continent” threatens the foundations of the United States itself. Yet the specter haunting the back cover is the senator himself, who appears above the quoted passage, reading glasses resting slightly askew on the bridge of his nose, with a sly smile. Though sounding an alarm, he seems completely at ease.
How much did he get paid for writing the book? How many were sold on day one and how few were sold after that?
It could be an easy way to pass a bribe by paying someone to write a book that nobody actually wants.
It’s a well known hustle. Politician writes a book, then PACs and think tanks but them by the thousands.
I bet AIPAC will buy a few truckloads.