Overview
- Published June 23, Regime Change has sold roughly 500,000 units across hardcover, audiobook and e-book formats in its first month and has been No. 1 on The New York Times nonfiction list for three weeks.
- Simon & Schuster ordered a seventh printing, bringing total hardcovers in print to about 460,000 as publishers work to meet continuing demand.
- Authors Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan say the book is based on extensive reporting, with their agency citing more than 1,000 interviews supporting its account of an insular, loyalty-driven second-term White House.
- President Trump publicly denounced the book on Truth Social as 'mostly made up' and the White House has conducted an internal leak inquiry and restricted staff comment in response to reporting on sensitive sources.
- Publishing executives call the title an unusual commercial outlier that is on track to be 2026’s bestselling nonfiction release and could reshape public discussion while raising questions about sourcing and national-security boundaries.