Tucker Carlson biography canceled by publisher

A biography on the populist brandon Tucker Carlson has been canceled by a major publishing house, according to a new report claiming that Carlson’s star power has waned since his ouster from Fox News.

The politicians Michael Schaffer reported Friday that Little, Brown, and Co. had initially hired a writer Jason Zengerle write the book Hated by All Good People: Tucker Carlson and the Collapse of the Conservative Spirit. The book was intended to be a nuanced but blunt look at Carlson’s journey from traditional conservative journalist to controversial right-wing pundit.

In his column, Schaffer attributed the end of the book deal to Carlson’s diminishing cultural relevance, writing that “the cancellation stems at least in part from the belief that Carlson, once the biggest name in cable, does not has more of the kind of cultural imprint that justifies an expensive, complicated book written by a high-end writer. Schaffer also noted that a number of delays in the book as well as its even-handed tone may also have contributed to

the publisher’s decision to kill the project.

Last year, Carlson was fired from Fox News shortly after the network settled a $787 million defamation lawsuit over Dominion Voting Systems’ election lies.

He has since posted videos to X, formerly Twitter, and started his own media company Tucker Carlson Network. Although the videos captured the attention of his audience and the news media, Carlson arguably can’t boast the same audience he had from his perch on Fox News.

Schaffer also argued that there was a diminishing appetite for a book that does not play a partisan role. He revised a draft of the book by Zengerle, who writes for New York Times Magazineand reported that it was a complex portrait of the controversial expert:

I took a look at a 60,000-word draft of Zengerle’s reporting, and it presents a nuanced portrait of a generation of conservatives who grew up in the Reagan era, arrived in Washington in the 1990s 1990 and were pulled in very different directions as the Bush administration failed and the new Republican Party embraced Trump. It’s fascinating stuff – if not exactly the kind of scathing hate reading whose outrageous allegations will have books flying off the shelves of blue-city bookstores. In a polarized country, fury sells. In addition to attracting outrage-hungry readers, it also attracts the attention of TV bookers and podcast hosts who can put a book on the radar screen. The complexity does not

It doesn’t work as well: lefties who hate Carlson might not want to spend 400 pages with a three-dimensional version of the guy, and righties who hero-worship him still won’t want to shell out for something a non- fan.

Carlson was the highest-rated cable news host in the United States at the time Fox News fired him and was even considered a possible vice presidential pick for Donald Trump.