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Former journalist Johnson has already written 11 books
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Boris Johnson has struck a deal with publisher HarperCollins to write a memoir that will reportedly earn the former Tory leader more than £6m.
The book will chronicle his “notorious run” as prime minister during Brexit and the pandemic before being ousted from office last September, said The Independent. No target publication date has been announced, but the lucrative deal has been agreed “ongoing speculation that he might harbour ambitions to return to front-line politics”, the paper added .
Former journalist Johnson has already published 11 books, but has failed to complete a biography of William Shakespeare for which he took an £88,000 advance in 2015. The publishing director at HarperCollins’ William Collins imprint, Arabella Pike, promised that Johnson’s latest project would be a prime ministerial memoir “like no other”.
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Five of the Best U.S. Political Biographies
Thank you for this list of political biographies from the United States. What do you look for in biography? Are you seeking to understand the bigger picture in the U.S.—a historical period or a governmental body via an individual’s story—or should a biography be more of a character study?
It’s definitely both. You can learn a lot about history through biography. For example, one of the books on my list is Donald Rumsfeld’s autobiography. He started in politics during the Eisenhower era. He was 30 years old, in 1962. He wrote this book in 2011 after he had stepped down as Secretary of Defense, so there was a solid 50 years there where he was, to varying degrees, at the center of U.S. politics.
So you can, incidentally, learn a lot about history, but I mainly look for a subject I’m really fascinated with. It’s less the time or the broad sweep of historical perspective, and more: is this person interesting?
Through Barack Obama’s book, I felt I got to know him really well. It is an autobiography, and it felt he was more candid and open than others—so that is an example of getting to know the individual more than the history.
The author of your first recommendation, Walter Isaacson, is a biographer at the top of his game. He’s