2020 London Book Fair Rights Guide For further information, please contact: Allison Devereux [email protected] The Cheney Agency 39 West 14th Street, Suite 403 New York, NY 10011 t: (212) 277-8007 www.cheneyagency.com Twitter: @CheneyAgency Contents Non-Fiction A Very Stable Genius by Carol Leonnig & Philip Rucker Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen Manifesto for a Moral Revolution by Jacqueline Novogratz The Biggest Bluff by Maria Konnikova Attention: A Love Story by Casey Schwartz To Be Honest by Michael Leviton Insecurity by Scott Shapiro Here Where We Stand Is Our Country by Molly Crabapple Kingdom of Play by David Toomey Between Two Fires by Joshua Yaffa She Said by Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey Fiction Destination Wedding by Diksha Basu Age of Consent by Amanda Brainerd Crooked Hallelujah by Kelli Jo Ford In the Valley by Ron Rash The Italian Teacher by Tom Rachman Selected Backlist Non-Fiction A Very Stable Genius Donald J. Trump’s Testing of America Carol Leonnig & Philip Rucker Instant #1 New York Times and international bestseller Over 300K copies sold A Washington Post, USA Today, WSJ, and Der Spiegel bestseller A New York Times Editors’ Choice Authors the winners of the Pulitzer Prize The definitive insider narrative and the most fully characterized account yet of the chaos, scandal and destruction of Trump's first term, from two Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post journalists. “I alone can fix it.” So went Donald J. Trump’s march to the presidency on July 21, 2016, when he accepted the Republican presidential nomination in Cleveland, promising to restore what he described as a fallen nation. Yet over the subsequent years, as he has undertaken the actual work of the commander in chief, it has been hard to see beyond the daily chaos of scandal, investigation, and constant bluster. It would be all too easy Penguin Press (January 2020) to mistake Trump’s first term for one of pure and uninhibited chaos, Territory: North America but there were patterns to his behavior and that of his associates. The Editor: Ann Godoff universal value of the Trump administration is loyalty—not to the Material: Finished copies country, but to the president himself—and Trump’s North Star has been Agent: Elyse Cheney the perpetuation of his own power, even when it meant imperiling our shaky and mistrustful democracy. Rights sold: UK: Bloomsbury Leonnig and Rucker, with deep and unmatched sources throughout Brazil: Objetiva Washington, D.C., tell of rages and frenzies but also moments of courage Finland: Otava and perseverance. Relying on scores of exclusive new interviews with Germany: Fischer some of the most senior members of the Trump administration and other Holland: Atlas Contact firsthand witnesses, the authors reveal the forty-fifth president up close, Italy: Mondadori taking readers inside Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation as well as Ukraine: FORS the president’s own haphazard but ultimately successful legal defense. Here for the first time certain officials who have felt honor-bound not to publicly criticize a sitting president or to divulge what they witnessed in a position of trust tell the truth for the benefit of history. This peerless and gripping narrative reveals President Trump at his most unvarnished and exposes how decision making in his administration has been driven by a reflexive logic of self-preservation and self- aggrandizement—but a logic nonetheless. This is the story of how an unparalleled president has scrambled to survive and tested the strength of America’s democracy and its common heart as a nation. Carol Leonnig is a national investigative reporter at The Washington Post, where she has worked since 2000 and covers Donald Trump’s presidency and other subjects. She won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on security failures and misconduct inside the Secret Service. Leonnig is also an on-air contributor to NBC News and MSNBC. Philip Rucker is the White House Bureau Chief at The Washington Post, leading its coverage of President Trump and his administration. He and a team of Post reporters won the Pulitzer Prize and George Polk Award for their reporting on Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election. He serves as an on-air political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC. PRAISE FOR A VERY STABLE GENIUS “[Rucker and Leonnig] are meticulous journalists, and this taut and terrifying book is among the most closely observed accounts of Donald J. Trump’s shambolic tenure in office to date ... Their newspaper’s ominous, love-it-or-hate-it motto is ‘Democracy Dies in Darkness.’ A Very Stable Genius flicks the lights on from its first pages.” —The New York Times “Richly sourced and highly readable ... It is not just another Trump tell-all or third-party confessional. It is unsettling, not salacious.” —The Guardian “A Very Stable Genius is superbly reported and written with clarity.” —The Washington Post “You could scarcely ask for more capable advocates. [Rucker and Leonnig’s] col- laborative account … walks readers step by step through the first 30 months or so of a presidency like no other.”—NPR “[A] stunning first draft of the history of the presidency of Donald Trump ... what has been crafted has a much deeper texture of insight driven by journalism execut- ed at its highest level of reporting the truth as best as it can now be known.” —The Sydney Morning Herald “There are brilliant flashes of insights and voices that have yet to be heard in the presidential cacophony.” —Financial Times Surviving Autocracy Masha Gessen By the winner of the 2017 National Book Award & finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award “An indispensable voice of and for this moment.” —Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny A galvanizing analysis of the destruction autocrats wage on cherished institutions, cultural norms, and our very sense of reality Within forty-eight hours of Donald Trump’s winning of the U.S. presidency in 2016, Masha Gessen’s essay “Autocracy: Rules for Survival” had gone viral. In the run-up to the election, Gessen stood out from other writers for the ability to convey the ominous significance of Trump’s unprecedented speech and behavior, and Gessen’s journalism became essential reading for those struggling to wrap their heads around the unimaginable. Thanks to the special perspective that is the Riverhead (June 2020) legacy of a Soviet childhood and two decades covering the resurgence Territory: North America of totalitarianism in Russia, Gessen has a sixth sense for the hallmarks Editor: Rebecca Saletan of autocracy—and the unique cross-cultural fluency to delineate its Material: Galleys emergence in the west. Agent: Elyse Cheney Applying this perspective to the Trump presidency, Surviving Autocracy Rights sold: offers a penetrating understanding of the triangular relationship between UK: Granta the autocrat, a corroded media, and a citizenry living in a world of Holland: De Bezige Bij cognitive dissonance. Drawing on examples of autocratic attempts from Vladimir Putin to Recep Erdogan to Viktor Orbán, and on the work of Option publishers: Hungarian sociologist Bálint Magyar, who devised new language to Estonia: Ajakirjad understand how autocrats come into power, Gessen provides a fine- Finland: Docendo grained dissection of the authoritarian playbook, and tells us the story Germany: Suhrkamp of how a few short years have degraded cherished institutions and our Hungary: Európa sense of truth, meaning, and possibility. Italy: Sellerio Sweden: Brombergs Surviving Autorcacy is an indispensable overview of the calamitous Spain: Turner trajectory of the past few years. It is also a beacon to recovery—or to Taiwan: Marco Polo enduring, and resisting, an ongoing assault. Turkey: Epsilon Masha Gessen is the author of the National Book Award- winning The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia as well as The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin, The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy, and several other books. Gessin is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Carnegie Fellowship. PRAISE FOR THE FUTURE IS HISTORY Winner of the 2017 National Book Award, the Leipzig Book Prize, the Hitchens Prize, and the Diario Madrid Journalism Prize “Ambitious, timely, insightful, and unsparing ... a sweeping intellectual history of Russia over the past four decades, told through a Tolstoyan gallery of characters.” —The Washington Post “Harrowing, compassionate, and important.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Fascinating and deeply felt.”—The New York Times Book Review “Forceful and eloquent.”—The Los Angeles Times “It’s not just history; it is an urgent awakening.”—Buzzfeed PRAISE FOR THE MAN WITHOUT A FACE “Gessen has shown remarkable courage in researching and writing this unflinch- ing indictment of the most powerful man in Russia.” —The Wall Street Journal “Gessen shines a piercing light into every dark corner ... Fascinating, hard-hitting reading.” —Foreign Affairs “Gessen has done the impossible in writing a highly readable, compelling life of Russia’s mysterious president-for-life.” —Tina Brown, The Daily Beast Manifesto for a Moral Revolution Practices to Build a Better World Jacqueline Novogratz From the New York Times bestselling author of The Blue Sweater An original short-list of essential leadership tools for the 21st century, and a manifesto for those who seek to leave this world better off than they found it In 2001, when Jacqueline Novogratz founded Acumen, a global community of socially and environmentally responsible partners dedicated to changing the way the world tackles poverty, few had heard of impact investing. Nineteen years later, there’s been a seismic shift in how corporate boards and other stakeholders evaluate businesses: impact investment is not only morally defensible but now also economically advantageous, even necessary. Still, it isn’t easy to reach a success that includes profits as well as mutually favorable relationships with workers and the communities in which they live.