Following the announcement of Andrew Cuomo’s resignation as governor of New York, the NYT revisits the “ethical and financial” headaches of American Crisis: Leadership Lessons From the Covid-19 Pandemic — even though the book has been functionally dead for months (selling approximately 350 hardcovers since the beginning of April). As they note, the book significantly underperformed the $5.1 million advance and first printing of over 450,000 copies from the very start. (Last summer’s auction is now characterized, without sourcing, as “frenzied.”) The paper claims “questions remained about whether Crown will pay the remainder of his advance,” presumably referring to the […]