It may be January 6, 2023 before the Select Committee report is published in book form, so if you had planned to give one to a political junkie friend for Christmas, you better look for a bottle of scotch instead. It will take some time during this busy holiday season for the publishers to edit the 800+ page report and provide an introduction and some notes. The one being published by Random House will have an introduction by Adam Schiff (D-Calif), while the copy from the New Yorker will have a preface by David Remnick and an epilogue by Jamie Raskin (D-MD). If you want an unvarnished one, wait for the one being produced by Melville House. I am going to wait for a graphic one with Cassidy Hutchinson on the cover.
To console your political friend, send they a copy of the omnibus spending bill, the short title of which is the "Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023". If you click on that link you can read all 4,155 pp., which is how many it took to show how $1.7 trillion will be spent. "Trillion" is a word we will seeing more of in 2023.
Canadian Content
If you prefer a copy that is printed in our country, it is estimated one will be available in a few years. It has to be in two languages, after all, and that is true as well for the prefatory "Land Acknowledgement." Apparently the folks in Alberta are going to wait for one of the two versions being produced by Skyhorse Publishing - the one with the introduction by Darren Beattie who was a speechwriter for former President Trump and "who disputed his defeat in the 2020 election."
Source:
"The Most Sought After Manuscript in Publishing? The Jan. 6 Report," Alexander Alter and Elizabeth A. Harris, New York Times, Dec. 23. 2022.
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