Tucker Carlson is taking aim at his own book publisher – By Jeremy Barr (The Washington Post) / Sept 22 2021
The acknowledgment section at the beginning of a book is an opportunity for the author to praise those who helped make the work a reality.
Tucker Carlson went in a different direction.
The Fox News host castigates his own publisher in the opening pages of his newly released book – “The Long Slide: Thirty Years in American Journalism.” Carlson called Simon & Schuster’s president a “cartoonish corporate censor” in the book’s acknowledgments section and used the introduction to attack the company for canceling a book deal with one of his regular guests: Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo. In a promotional interview earlier this month, where another author might have thanked his publisher, Carlson called it is “a disgusting company run by disgusting people.”
Carlson said he turned against Simon & Schuster after the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, when the company accused Hawley of contributing to “what became a dangerous threat to our democracy and freedom” and canceled a book contract with the senator. But while Hawley eventually found a new publisher for “The Tyranny of Big Tech,” Carlson says he was contractually obligated to keep writing “The Long Slide” for Simon & Schuster, which also published his best-selling 2019 book, “Ship of Fools,” as part of a two-book deal with the company.
