PW reports lots of books about President-Elent Barack Obama in the offing, and the LA Times reports that “there are at least nine books about the president-elect and the 2008 campaign coming out in the next few months,” among which:
- NBC’s Chuck Todd and polling expert Sheldon Gawiser will co-write How Obama Won, “a state-by-state guide to the Obama victory,” to be published before the inauguration.
- the New Yorker’s Washington correspondent, Ryan Lizza, will write a book about President-elect Obama’s first year in office, to be published by Penguin Press. (Obviously, that won’t be published before the inauguration.)
- A Long Time Coming: The Historic, Combative, Expensive and Inspiring 2008 Election and the Victory of Barack Obama, written by Evan Thomas and the staff of Newsweek, will be published by PublicAffairs in January.
- Newsweek columnist Jonathan Alter will also write a book, published by Simon & Schuster, about Obama’s first year as prez.
- and yet another book by a Newsweek writer, Richard Wolffe, will be published next June: Renegade: The Education of Barack Obama.
- nine “key speeches: from the presidential campaign and Obama’s acceptance speech will be published in hardcover in December by Canongate UK.
- The Obama Menu: Dinners With Barack Obama, by Taste TV, is due out in March.
- Calvin Trillin’s book, Deciding the Next Decider: The 2008 Presidential Race in Rhyme, is due out on 25 Nov.
- a book about the 2008 presidential campaign, by Time magazine senior political analyst Mark Halperin and John Heilemann at New York magazine, due out in late 2009.
- Maya Angelou is writing a poem for Obama.
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