By Evereth Woodruff 
Publishers ought to release the books as a trilogy.
It would save the consumer a few bucks, if anybody is going to buy them in the first place, let alone read them.
Maybe they’ll wait for the movie.
The three forthcoming books are Joe Biden’s memoir about his four years as president, Kamala Harris’ book about her failed campaign for president, and the third by Karine Jean-Pierre, Biden’s press secretary.
There might have been a fourth insider book by Biden Senior Advisor Mike Donilon, but he did not need the money. The Biden political campaign paid him $4 million for his work and he was set to receive another $4 million bonus when Biden was reelected.
It is no wonder Donilon wanted the frail Biden to stay in the campaign despite his disastrous debate performance that forced Biden to drop out of the race. To Donilon, Biden was a money machine.
Donilon last week told a House panel investigating Biden’s mental fitness to govern, “I believed that President Biden was the best person to lead the country on the day he took office, and I continued to believe that was true every day he served as president.”
Nobody may believe him, but at least he did not, like other Biden staffers, refuse to answer House committee questions, or peddle a book.
If released as a trilogy, each book would have a separate title and market strategy as fits the author, but the umbrella title of the set could be, in a bow to Fyodor Dostoevsky, “Crime and Punishment.”
However, others have suggested the title should be “Con and Embellishment.
Biden’s book about his four years as president is still a work in progress. It will be completed in the fall if, given his age and iffy memory, he doesn’t forget to write it.
While no publication date has been set, one tentative title for his book is “Stories My Staff Told Me.”
While Biden got $10 million for the book from the Hachette Book Group, it is $5 million less than what Bill Clinton got for his, and a whopping $50 million less than what Barack and Michelle Obama got from Penguin Random House for their books.
It is hoped that Biden’s book will not clash with the one written by Harris, his vice president who, of course, replaced Biden as the 2024 Democratic Party candidate for president and who was badly beaten by Trump.
Her “behind the scenes” memoir of the campaign, being published in September by Simon & Schuster, is called “107 Days,” which sounds more like a prison sentence than a book.
Given that she went through more than $1 billion running for president, or more than $10 million a day, and lost ground each day, a more appropriate title would be “107 Nightmares.”
At the rate she burned though money she could have paid Donilon a dozen times over to tell her how great he was doing.
The third book in the trilogy may be the best of all. It is the one written by former Biden White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, which will be out in October.
A veteran Democrat Party campaigner, Jean-Pierre said she left the party and became an Independent after the party’s “betrayal” of Joe Biden
While her book is called “Independent. A Look Inside a Broken White House Outside the Party Lines,” a better title would be “Cover-up: How I Conned the Press.”
Or “Cover-up: How the Press Helped Me Con the Public.”
Almost to the last day on the job, and her last White House press briefing, KJP defended Biden’s mental fitness when everyone else could see he was in trouble.
And the media went along with her coverup, despite Biden’s obvious faltering. “I would put the president’s stamina up against anyone,” she said to critics.
“The proof is in the pudding,” she said. And so it was, only the pudding was in Biden’s head.
Veteran political reporter Peter Lucas can be reached at: peter.lucas@bostonherald.com
