(Mr. Obama has said he would like to avoid commercial flights once he surrenders Air Force One.) Robert B. Barnett, who served as Mr. Obama’s agent on a 2004 book deal, and representatives for Crown, which published Mr. Obama’s three previous books, declined to comment. But every winning presidential candidate since 1952 has written at least one book before entering the White House. Agents and publishers speculated that Mr. Obama’s memoirs could come in two volumes, one for each term. Whether Mr. Obama will be able to deliver a manuscript as quickly as his publisher would like is unclear.

Source: New York Times September 04, 2016 23:37 UTC