United States Sen. Cory Booker will adapt his history-making Senate floor speech into a new book.
St. Martin’s will publish the New Jersey Democrat’s Stand in the fall, the press announced in a news release. It calls the book “a celebration of the Americans who chose to get up in the face of injustice, who championed the uniquely American values central to making our nation a more perfect union, despite seemingly insurmountable obstacles.”
Booker was the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, before he was elected to the Senate in 2013; he has since been reelected twice. In March, Booker delivered a speech to the chamber, in which he criticized President Donald Trump’s administration. The speech lasted 25 hours and five minutes, breaking the previous record set by Sen. Strom Thurmond in 1957.
Tim Bartlett, the executive editor of St. Martin’s Publishing Group, approached Booker about adapting the speech into a book, the press says.
“This book is about the virtues vital to our success as a nation and lessons we can draw from generations of Americans who fought for them,” Booker said in a statement. “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.”
Stand is slated for publication on November 11.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
