Tony Blair will be visiting the White House on Wednesday, where he will attend a dinner as well as participate in talks regarding the Middle East. The former prime minister’s launch party that he had scheduled for his memoirs has been delayed.
It seemed that there would be many anti-war protestors at the event after several threats were received, and publishers were worried that this would have a negative effect on the book’s sales in the United States. Following his visit to the White House,
Mr. Blair will head to Ireland where he will do a book signing. Next week, he will finally return to Britain to do a book signing in central London. Following this, he will go back to the United States where he will receive the Liberty Medal from Former President Bill Clinton.
The royalties that Mr. Blair has made from his book will be donated to the Royal British Legion, the former prime minister has announced. His memoirs, entitled A Journey, are set to be published on Wednesday. However, sales in Britain will likely not reach the high numbers that were previously expected. Both Terry Pratchett and Nigella Lawson are also releasing books this week, and Mr. Blair is behind both of them in orders.
Consumers on the online retailer Amazon have pressured others to boycott the memoirs in online forums. Inside the book, Mr. Blair talks about his relationship with Gordon Brown, among other things. According to sources, he speaks highly of George W. Bush inside the book, and defends his controversial decisions involving Afghanistan and Iraq.
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