'He's in our hearts': Family and friends still seek answers one year after Nathan Wise’s disappearance
It’s been a year since Nathan Wise went missing and his family is no closer to finding out what happened to him.
Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of former President Donald Trump and one of his top advisers during his administration, has a book deal.
Broadside Books, a conservative imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, announced that Kushner's book will come out in early 2022. Kushner has begun working on the memoir, currently untitled, and is expected to write about everything from the Middle East to criminal justice reform to the pandemic.
“His book will be the definitive, thorough recounting of the administration - and the truth about what happened behind closed doors,” Broadside announced Tuesday.
Financial terms were not disclosed.
Kushner was often at the center of the Trump administration's policies - whether brokering the normalization of relationships between Israel and United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco - the so-called Abraham Accords - or playing a key role in a criminal justice bill passed by Congress in 2018. He has also been the subject of numerous controversies, whether for his financial dealings and potential conflicts of interest or for the administration's widely criticized handling of COVID-19.
In April 2020, less than two months into the pandemic, Kushner labeled the White House response a “great success story,” dismissed “the eternal lockdown crowd” and also said: “I think you'll see by June a lot of the country should be back to normal and the hope is that by July the country's really rocking again.”
The signing of Kushner comes during an ongoing debate within the book industry over which Trump officials, notably Trump himself, can be taken on without starting a revolt at the publishing house. Hundreds of Simon & Schuster employees and thousands from outside the company signed a petition this spring condemning the publisher's decision to sign up former Vice President Mike Pence.
At a Simon & Schuster town hall in May, employees confronted CEO Jonathan Karp, who responded that he felt the company had a mission to hear opposing sides of political debates. He also said that he did not want to publish Trump, who issued his 2015 book “Crippled America” through the Simon & Schuster imprint Threshold Editions, because he didn't think the former president would provide an honest account of his time in office.
Trump issued a statement last week that he was “writing like crazy” and had turned down two offers “from the most unlikely of publishers,” a claim widely disputed within the industry.
This story was first published on June 15, 2021. It was updated on June 16, 2021 to correct that a petition protesting a book deal for former Vice President Mike Pence was signed by hundreds of Simon & Schuster employees, not thousands.
It’s been a year since Nathan Wise went missing and his family is no closer to finding out what happened to him.
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