{"id":6445,"date":"2025-04-08T13:06:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T13:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=6445"},"modified":"2025-04-08T13:06:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T13:06:26","slug":"former-sen-joe-manchin-working-on-a-memoir-dead-center-is-scheduled-for-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=6445","title":{"rendered":"Former Sen. Joe Manchin working on a memoir. ‘Dead Center’ is scheduled for September"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NEW YORK — <\/span>Former Sen. Joe Manchin<\/a> has a memoir coming out in September, what the self-styled maverick from West Virginia calls his \u201cdeclaration of independence from the extremes on both sides.\u201d<\/p>\n

St. Martin’s Press announced Tuesday that Manchin’s \u201cDead Center: In Defense of Common Sense\u201d will be released Sept. 16. <\/p>\n

Manchin, 77, announced last year he wouldn’t seek re-election after serving in the Senate since 2010 and becoming the rare Democrat to win in a state which otherwise votes for Republicans by wide margins. Manchin had long branded himself as a moderate beholden to no ideology and would often chastise Democrats or upend legislation when Senate Democrats held a tiny majority during the presidency of fellow party member Joe Biden. <\/a><\/p>\n

Last summer, Manchin left the Democrats altogether and identified as an independent, although he continued to caucus with his former party. In a statement issued through St. Martin’s, he said that \u201cDead Center\u201d was a \u201cdeclaration of independence\u201d and a handbook for governing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe successful leadership in any arena is about understanding the art and science of collaboration and compromise, civility and respect, negotiations and solutions,\u201d he said. “Leaders should be positive change agents and bring people and organizations together rather than drive them apart.\u201d<\/p>\n

Manchin’s book will include a foreword by longtime friend Nick Saban,<\/a> the former coach who is to be inducted this year<\/a> into the College Football Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n

According to St. Martin\u2019s, Manchin will track his rise from the coal fields of Farmington, West Virginia, to the heights of power in the Senate. The publisher is calling his book a \u201crevealing and entertaining memoir” in which Manchin \u201creflects on the pivotal moments, tough decisions, and core values that have shaped him as a person and a public servant.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSenator Manchin combines eyebrow-raising, never-before-told stories from inside the Senate and the White House with insights into how government does \u2014 or doesn\u2019t \u2014 work,\u201d the statement reads.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK — Former Sen. Joe Manchin has a memoir coming out in September, what the self-styled maverick from West Virginia calls his \u201cdeclaration of independence from the extremes on both sides.\u201d St. Martin’s Press announced Tuesday that Manchin’s \u201cDead Center: In Defense of Common Sense\u201d will be released Sept. 16. Manchin, 77, announced last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6447,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6445\/revisions\/6447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}