June 9, 2016 (NEW YORK, NY)—Twelve, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette Book Group, is excited to announce the publication of a new book by Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd titled THE YEAR OF VOTING DANGEROUSLY: The Derangement of American Politics. Sean Desmond, Editorial Director of Twelve, acquired North American rights from Esther Newberg at ICM Partners. The book will be published on Sept. 13, 2016. From the preeminent political columnist of our time, THE YEAR OF VOTING DANGEROUSLY is Maureen Dowd's most incendiary takes and takedowns on the most bizarre, disruptive and fascinating Presidential race in modern history. In this perilous campaign season, The New York Times columnist traces the psychologies and pathologies in one of the nastiest and most significant battles of the sexes ever. Dowd has covered Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton since the '90s. She was with the real estate mogul when he shyly approached his first Presidential rope line in 1999 and she won a Pulitzer prize that same year for her penetrating columns on Bill Clinton’s impeachment follies. Like her bestsellers, Bushworld and Are Men Necessary?, THE YEAR OF VOTING DANGEROUSLY will feature Dowd's trademark cocktail of wry humor and acerbic analysis in dispatches from the political madhouse. If America is on the escalator to bedlam, then THE YEAR OF VOTING DANGEROUSLY is the perfect guide for this surreal, insane ride. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Maureen Dowd is a columnist for The New York Times and a best-selling author. During the 1970s and the early 1980s, she worked for TIME magazine and The Washington Star, where she covered news as well as sports and wrote feature articles. Dowd joined the Times in 1983 as a metropolitan reporter and eventually became an op-ed writer for the newspaper in 1995. In 1999, she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her series of columns on the Monica Lewinsky scandal in the Clinton administration. ABOUT TWELVE TWELVE, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group, was established in 2006 with the objective of publishing no more than twelve books a year, singular works of fiction and nonfiction by authors who have a unique perspective and compelling authority, works that explain our culture, and that illuminate, inspire, provoke, and entertain. ABOUT HACHETTE BOOK GROUP Hachette Book Group is a leading trade publisher based in New York and a division of Hachette Livre, the third-largest trade and educational publisher in the world. HBG publishes under the divisions of Little, Brown and Company, Little Brown Books for Young Readers, Grand Central Publishing, Orbit, Hachette Nashville, Hachette Books, and Hachette Audio. CONTACT: Paul Samuelson 212-364-1259; [email protected] .