You're kidding, right? This must be your attempt at humor, because you couldn't possibly not be aware that he has multiple best-selling books that not only netted him huge advances, but sold millions of copies.
Why are Republicans allowed - and expected - to make money hand over fist, while Democrats are supposed to retire to a 3 bedroom ranch house in the poorest part of their home state?
Barack and Michelle Obama each just sold a book in a
joint deal that appears to be bigger than any previous presidential book deal in history. Reportedly, they are making $65 million, which is an unprecedented amount of money for a presidential memoir.
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Former U.S. President Barack Obama just published his memoir two days ago,
and already it’s on track to become the bestselling presidential memoir of all time. But how does it compare to other memoirs and other books?
Obama’s fourth book,
A Promised Land, was released on Tuesday,
when it set a first-day sales record of almost 890,000 copies, which includes audiobooks, e-books and pre-orders. That marked the biggest 24-hour sales period for any book published by Penguin Random House, which has also published the Fifty Shades of Grey series and John Grisham’s books.
It’s not just a great debut. It puts him well ahead of first-day sales of memoirs by his two predecessors, George W. Bush (220,000) and Bill Clinton (400,000). And Obama’s the bestselling author in the house, though not by much—his wife, Michelle, sold 725,000 for the first day of her memoir,
Becoming.
Obama also outsold his one-time rival-turned-cabinet member, Hillary Clinton.
Her 2017 memoir, What Happened, which explored her failed 2016 bid for the presidency, scored 300,000 first-week sales.
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So
beautress, I ask this seriously: How do you not know about this? You're obviously interested in politics and you post here in the political forums. Why don't you know? Is it because of the media you choose to watch? Did FoxNews and Newsmax and OANN and the Mike Lindell Channel not ever, ever mention that Obama is a huge publishing success? And has been since the year before he became president, with 'Dreams of My Father'.
Do you think that with the $69 MILLION advance he could afford to buy the . . . checks notes . . . . $10M farm?
And that's just this book deal. He's involved with all kinds of things, and LIKE EVERY PRESIDENT (except Jimmy Carter), he sits on the boards of many corporations.