2020-07-16 00:00:00, By Christie D’ZurillaStaff Writer, Los Angeles Times
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/Books & Literature
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320
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2.13 min
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Intermediate
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11th or 12th
The memoir about life in the Trump family and its effects on the psyche of the current commander in chief sold 950,000 copies through Tuesday, the book's first day of sales, the publisher said in a release.
"Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man" by Mary L. Trump has set a first-day sales record for Simon & Schuster, the publisher announced Thursday.
Previous big sellers for S&S include Bob Woodward's September 2018 effort "Fear: Trump in the White House," which notched 750,000 copies in presales and first-day sales combined.
In 2007, J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," the seventh and final book in the best-selling "Harry Potter" series, sold 8.3 million copies by the end of its first day on the market.
Highly anticipated fiction has sold better than headline-making nonfiction in the past, with Dan Brown's novel "The Lost Symbol" hitting 1 million in first-day sales in 2009.
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