Crown will publish Michael Wolff’s next book on Donald Trump, All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America, on February 25. Crown SVP, publisher, and editor-in-chief Gillian Blake acquired North American rights to the book from Andrew Wylie of the eponymous agency. Wolff is the author of three other books on Trump: the blockbuster 2018 hit Fire and Fury, 2019’s Siege, and 2021’s Landslide, all published by Henry Holt.
“After almost 10 years of writing about Trump, I seem to have gotten so ingrained in the Trump culture that Trump insiders comfortably talk to me until, often too late, they remember that I’m a writer,” said Wolff, in a statement. “The truth is that everyone in Trumpworld understands that they are part of the most astounding story perhaps ever told in American political life and they want to tell it. I am lucky enough to hear it first.”
The book, the publisher said, offers “an account of the 2024 Trump campaign, told in Wolff’s inimitable narrative style and with his extraordinary access to Trump’s inner circle,” that begins in the spring of 2023 with Trump’s first indictment and extends through the end of his return to the White House. “Wolff’s thesis in his 18 months of covering the campaign was that the establishment would destroy Trump, or Trump would destroy the establishment,” the publisher said. “All or Nothing is Wolff’s panoramic and intimate picture of that battle...from indictments, to trials, to assassination attempts, to the humiliation and defenestration of a sitting president, to Trump’s staggering victory.”
The publication of Fire and Fury marked the beginning of a Trump White House exposé craze for the publishing industry, in part thanks to Trump's attempt to silence Wolff's account by sending a cease-and-desist letter to Holt’s parent company, Macmillan Publishers. The book stayed on the nonfiction bestseller list for 14 weeks, and pushed more than a million copies in a year that also saw the publication of such Trump-related bestsellers as Bob Woodward’s Fear and James Comey’s A Higher Loyalty.
While the Trump exposé trend mostly fizzled out following Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory, some publishers continued to release titles related to the president—and he continued to dangle legal threats over their publication. Last fall, Trump threatened to sue Crown’s corporate parent, Penguin Random House, and the New York Times over allegedly “false and defamatory statements” included in a number of articles by Times journalists, including two related to Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig’s Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success, published in September by Penguin Press.
