Oppenheimer is a New York Times bestselling biographer one of whose most recent books is about the life of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Kamala Harris, who bizarrely blew through a record $1.5billion on her failed presidential campaign, may soon earn some big-bucks payback.
Top publishers, DailyMail.com has learned exclusively, are willing to pay the soon-to-be former vice president and twice-failed Democratic presidential hopeful a whopping advance of as much as $20million for an inside look at President Joe Biden’s, 82, White House and presidential campaign tell-all.
According to a Kamala insider: ‘Virtually the moment Kamala lost to Trump, the offers began pouring in from the publishing world for her to do the definitive book on what really went on between Joe and Kamala – what went right and what went wrong – inside the Oval Office walls, and all the ups and downs of her campaign.
‘They are throwing around advance numbers in the $20million range, maybe more with other publishing rights.’
Scoring such a huge sum if Kamala, 60, is not out of the question. Barack and Michelle Obama landed a joint deal from Penguin Random House worth a reported $65 million advance in 2017. Bill Clinton got a $10 million advance in 2001.
A prominent executive at one of New York’s top liberal-leaning publishing houses told DailyMail.com: ‘More than anyone in the Biden White House, Kamala as the number two, and then as Joe Biden‘s campaign successor after he dropped out of the race, knows all the secrets, knows where all the skeletons are buried.
‘She was there from the beginning of the administration and participated in all the presidential decisions, right or wrong. She’s the one who can tell the consummate story.
‘It could be even more with TV and movie rights, magazine and newspaper serial rights – and like the Obama’s who made a huge deal with Netflix, the monster streaming service is said to be waiting in the wings to do a deal with Kamala, we’ve heard.
‘As we see it, her book would be the hottest White House and presidential campaign tell-all ever and would sell like hotcakes to readers on both sides of the political aisle.’
And published political power players are ‘quietly advising Kamala to get the jump on any memoir Joe Biden might be planning so she can get her side out in the public first of what really went on,’ a well-placed White House operative told DailyMail.com.
Kamala allegedly told members of her team that she wants to keep her options open about her next career move and has vowed to ‘stay in the fight.’
Still, publishers investing a small fortune in a Kamala Harris tell-all expect her to ‘tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth,’ according to a top Washington D.C. literary agent who has represented and sold bestselling books by prominent political figures to leading publishers.
‘Kamala needs to forget all the campaign bulls**t that was spewed on her side, and honestly tell everything about the true nature of her relationship with Biden, and what role, if any, she played in forcing him to drop out of the race,’ the agent told DailyMail.com.
He continued: ‘She has to be honest about what went on between her and Biden regarding the controversial withdrawal from Afghanistan and was she aware that he was lying to the American public and the mainstream media when he said numerous times he wouldn’t pardon his son, Hunter, and then shockingly did so.
‘She has to be straightforward about her role as ‘border czar,’ and why she seemingly ignored a job that permitted millions of illegal aliens – including criminals – to enter the country – at least that’s how the public and the conservative media perceived it.
‘And both the public, her party and members of congress would like her to explain where exactly all the cash from her cash-rich 15-week campaign went in the search for voters – spending about $100million per week, with expenditures for celebrity concerts, appearances and a ritzy and controversial Oprah town hall.
Readers will also want the skinny on why she chose Minnesota governor Tim Walz as her vice president running mate and what she thinks in retrospect about his lies about his military record, and prevaricating, and making misstatements about his past.
‘And most importantly,’ said the source, ‘she needs to explain who were the real puppet masters during the past four years of the Biden-Harris administration – who was really making the important decisions. Was it the far Left, and why, and she’d be expected to name names.
‘She has to come clean about those issues and much more, in order to make a tell-all credible and believable to the publisher, the editor, and the American reading public who would be convinced to buy her book.
‘They’ll all expect the truth!’
Kamala’s post-election loss statements have been minimal, defiantly telling her supporters, ‘Don’t let anyone take your power’ in a 30-second clip shared on the Democratic party’s X account on November 26.
More recently she was ridiculed when she attempted a flashback to the early days of the campaign and the viral ‘coconut tree’ memes that showcased her awkward brand of humor.
Kamala published a book titled The Truths We Hold, a memoir published in May 2019 that discusses her time as a California senator.
The ‘conventional book,’ as described by The Washington Post, only mentions Biden once and in passing.
She also co-wrote a book with ghostwriter Joan O’C Hamilton that was released in 2009, Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer. The pair were accused of lifting content from Wikipedia in a report from Austrian ‘plagiarism hunter’ Stefan Weber.
The following year, she abysmally failed her first run for the Democratic presidential nomination, with campaign polls showing her at single digits and the donor money drying up.
The $20million book advance is significantly higher than the previous vice president, who also ran for the 2024 presidency, Mike Pence, who served in Trump’s first administration from 2016 to 2020.
Pence received a reported $1.4million from Simon & Schuster for his memoir entitled So Help Me God, in which he recalled his escape from the Capitol building on January 6, 2021.
He discussed in the book demonstrators chanting ‘hang Mike Pence’ and described the moment he pushed back against Trump’s alleged pressure against certifying Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential victory.
After losing to Trump in 2016 – a loss that astounded and shocked Hillary Clinton and her millions of democratic supporters – she published the 469-page What Happened, in which she blamed many others for her defeat and at times even herself.
She is said to have received an advance of $5million for the book, and more than 400,000 copies were sold.
At one point, the former first lady, U.S. Senator and secretary of state under President Obama wrote that she was ‘tempted to make voodoo dolls of certain members of the press and Congress and stick them full of pins.’
This was at the height of the scandal over her private email server. But she did admit, ‘Mostly I was furious at myself.’
Hillary got a $14million advance for her 2014 book Hard Choices. The 600-page book, published by Simon & Schuster, was billed as ‘an inside account’ about the four years she served as secretary of state. But it reportedly did not sell well.
In 2000, she sold a memoir titled Living History to Simon & Schuster for what was then a near-record advance of $8million – written with three ghostwriters – about the scandals of her husband’s administration and women’s changing roles in the world. It reportedly sold one million copies.
Meanwhile, former President Bill Clinton garnered one of the ten biggest advances in publishing history at that time – $15million for his 2004 memoir My Life that featured little about his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
There was furor back in 2017 when it was revealed that former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama had struck a joint deal with the publishing house Penguin Random House worth a reported $65 million for two books.
Obama’s previous two books Dreams from My Father (1994) and The Audacity of Hope (2006), sold millions of print copies combined.
Crown Publishing oversaw the release of Michelle’s 2022 book The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times and her 2018 memoir Becoming. Former President Obama also released a memoir under the same publisher titled A Promised Land in 2020.
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