Senator Cory Booker Announces New Book “Stand”, Coming this Fall

Sen. Cory Booker is taking his historical reside from nan podium to nan page.

This fall, nan leader and New York Times bestselling author, 56, will people a book, Stand, The St. Martin's Publishing Group announced connected Wednesday, May 28.

The book will beryllium a continuation and amplification of nan messages — and calls to action — explored successful nan New Jersey Democrat’s historic Senate reside earlier this year.

The reside focused connected Democratic guidance to respective of President Donald Trump's sweeping policies, galore of which person targeted women and undocumented immigrants — and, astatine 25 hours and 5 minutes, became nan longest reside successful nan history of nan U.S. Senate.

It besides captured nan attraction of Tim Bartlett, executive editor astatine The St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Inspired by Booker’s historical speech, Bartlett “approached nan Senator to talk really his powerful connection could beryllium amplified and adapted into a compelling book,” according to a property release.

Slated to deed bookshelves connected Nov. 11, 2025, Stand “explores really our choices coming style nan early — and offers a passionate telephone to conscience and a guideline for courageous engagement,” an charismatic synopsis states. “At its halfway is nan condemnation that it’s not capable to conflict against personification aliases thing — we must besides guidelines for thing greater.”

Stand“is an urgent telephone to renew our shared values and perpetrate to endurance, courageousness and opinionated action," nan synopsis promises.

Echoing this successful an charismatic statement, Booker said nan forthcoming book “is astir nan virtues captious to our occurrence arsenic a federation and lessons we tin tie from generations of Americans who fought for them.”

“Now is not nan clip to surrender to cynicism aliases wantonness our astir noble ideals,” nan lawmaker continued. “Now is nan clip to defiantly state for illustration our ancestors earlier us: I excessively guidelines for America.”

With his reside connected Capitol Hill, Booker collapsed nan grounds antecedently held by Sen. Strom Thurmond astatine 24 hours and 18 minutes successful 1957, The New York Times reported astatine nan time. The precocious South Carolina legislator antecedently held nan grounds for filibustering successful guidance of the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

Booker began nan reside astatine astir 7 p.m. section clip connected March 31, announcing that he would speak "for arsenic agelong arsenic I americium physically able."

And he had plentifulness to talk about. The legislator prepared 1,164 pages of worldly for nan historical speech, a press release from Booker's agency antecedently confirmed. The leader and writer besides affirmed astatine nan clip that he was not location to purposely break Thurmond's erstwhile record, but alternatively "despite his speech." 

“I’m present because arsenic powerful arsenic he was, nan group are much powerful,” Booker said astatine nan time.

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Stand will beryllium retired Nov. 11, 2025.