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“Trump is a man who will take money from pretty much anyone”: Watch Seth Hettena talk Trump / Russia on MSNBC’s Morning Joe

“We’re going to get Putin on this. We’re going to help Trump win the election.” That’s what mafia-connected Russian real estate developer Felix Sater said during Ivanka Trump’s 2015 trip to Moscow,… Read more »

Melville House Books

Continued Covid crisis catalyzes e-book sales; fallout feared — Mike Lindgren
MELVILLE HOUSE ANNOUNCES 500,000 COPY PRINTING OF FIRST IN-DEPTH BOOK ABOUT QANON PHENOMENON AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FUTURE — Melville House
NYTimes tallies tsunami of Trump tomes; why John Dean's book Is different — Mike Lindgren
A Message from John Dean — Amelia Stymacks

“I love documents”: How Seth Hettena came to write Trump / Russia, on sale today

Seth Hettena

Russia wasn’t much on the radar when I started researching what became my book, Trump/Russia: A Definitive History. Obama was still president, the Steele Dossier hadn’t leaked yet, and James Comey… Read more »

What has two thumbs, praise from Jane Mayer, and a new book out on the president’s relationship with Russia? Seth Hettena!

Melville House

It’s a hell of a time to be alive. Ollie North is enjoying a macabre second act, Israel’s prime minister has insulted Japan’s prime minster by serving him desert in a… Read more »

God help us if publishers become “the morals police”

Taylor Sperry

For Publishers Weekly, Rachel Deahl reports that book publishers are pressing for “morality clauses” to be included in deals with new authors. In the most immediate sense, this is a… Read more »

Ian McEwan reveals a rather absurd incident that only an author of his stature could experience

Michael Barron

Are you really the foremost authority on a book you write? That’s the question bubbling up after a bemusing, if slightly awkward, interview with renowned author Ian McEwan. In an interview… Read more »