Antony Blinken has a book deal, billed by his publisher as a “rare glimpse” into the “challenging and often controversial” responses to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the war in Gaza and other crises that broke out during his four years as secretary …
ByHILLEL ITALIE AP national writer
January 28, 2025, 9: 03 AM
NEW YORK — Former Secretary of State Antony Blinken has a book deal, billed by his publisher as a “rare glimpse” into the “challenging and often controversial” responses to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the war in Gaza and other crises that broke out during his four years at the helm of the State Department under President Joe Biden.
Crown, an imprint of Penguin Random House, announced the book Tuesday. The title and release date are still to be determined.
“In this candid work, he will offer the first inside story from within the administration on what really transpired in the run up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the difficult choices that shaped American diplomatic and military support in the months that followed in a war that would bring the world as close to nuclear conflict as it had come in more than half a century,” Crown’s statement reads in part.
Crown promised Blinken’s book would “take readers into the Situation Room and the Oval Office to hear the discussion about how to keep tensions with China from spiraling to dangerous levels.”
The book will also cover the Israel-Hamas war, sharing “the reaction at the highest levels of American government” to the Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas on Israel, “unfolding the complicated calculus by which the administration dealt with Israel’s