Cory Booker cashes in on his 25-hour anti-Trump filibuster with new book deal

Democratic New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker’s new book “Stand” is set to hit the shelves this November, St. Martin’s Publishing Group announced Wednesday.

The book will serve as a follow-up to the over-day-long anti-Trump speech Booker gave on the Senate floor from March 31 to April 1, according to AP. “It is time for good trouble,” an official synopsis of the book from Macmillan Publishers stated.

Booker’s 25-hour Senate speech broke a record that had been held for nearly 70 years by segregationist South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond, who gave a 24-hour and 18-minute speech against the Civil Rights Act of 1957, which eventually passed. In his headline-making speech, Booker notably suggested that the Trump administration is going to cut Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security — something President Donald Trump has vehemently denied on various occasions.

The official “Stand” synopsis calls Booker’s speech “remarkable,” claiming that the senator “spoke out eloquently and forcefully against the Trump administration’s relentless challenges to civil liberties, government institutions, the rule of law, and our nation’s international standing.”

Booker called the Senate filibuster an “abuse of power” in 2022, according to Fox News, before giving his speech in April 2025.

The book synopsis further describes “Stand” as a call to action: “Now is not the time to surrender to cynicism or abandon our most noble ideals. Now is the time to defiantly declare like our ancestors before us: I too stand for America.”

Tim Bartlett, executive editor at The St. Martin’s Publishing Group, says he was inspired by Booker’s speech to request that Booker write a book for his company to publish. According to a press release, Bartlett asked “the Senator to discuss how his powerful message could be amplified and adapted into a compelling book.”

Booker did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

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