n data-reactid="4">Before 2024—or, God forbid, 2028—Tom Cotton will almost certainly publish a book. The Arkansas senator’s first book—Sacred Duty, published by HarperCollins’s William Morrow imprint in 2019—was a portrait of the Old Guard, which serves in Arlington National Cemetery. Cotton was a member of the Old Guard, in between tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the book was, despite his hard-right politics, apolitical. The point was to underline his bona fides: Other U.S. senators may claim to support the troops, but here is a man who was a troop himself (who also really supports the troops).

Cotton’s next book will almost certainly be of another cursed genre: the campaign book. It is no secret that Cotton is eyeing the White House, and he appears to be well-positioned as Donald Trump’s successor. A second Cotton book will undoubtedly advocate for restrictions on immigration, argue that Big Tech companies are biased against conservatives, and play up Cotton’s insistence that American troops be brought in to shut down violent protesters angered by George Floyd’s death, as well as the subsequent controversy his position caused at The New York Times.
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