NEW YORK (AP) — James Comey’s “A Higher Loyalty” had a very big opening week.
Flatiron Books announced Tuesday that sales topped 600,000 copies, a number that includes print, audio and e-books. The former FBI director’s memoir has been one of the year’s most anticipated releases. It includes his accounts of investigating Hillary Clinton’s emails and of his awkward encounters with President Donald Trump.
Comey, fired by Trump a year ago, has likened the president to a crime boss who values personal loyalty over service to the country. Published April 17, “A Higher Loyalty” is the hottest political book since Michael Wolff’s million-selling “Fire and Fury,” which came out in January.
Both books were published by imprints of Macmillan.
Regardless if it’s good, who buys and reads these books these days?
Comey has a serious talent for making news and getting publicity. He will sell a ton of books. Personally I find the whole thing a little much. But it did make me happy when reports surfaced that Comey has managed to fluster the all-time master of “earned media”:
“The president is very confounded that this person is always able to divert the spotlight to him,” Conway said during an appearance on “Good Morning America”…