In 2017, he published two books, "", which explains American society's peculiar susceptibility to falsehoods and illusions (Random House, ), and with Alec Baldwin "You Can't Spell America Without Me: The Really Tremendous Inside Story of My Fantastic First Year As President" (Penguin, ), a parody Trump memoir. Excerpts from "Fantasyland" appeared as a cover story in "The Atlantic", and in "Slate." Both books were "New York Times" bestsellers, and "Fantasyland," which the "Times Book Review" called "a great revisionist history of America," reached #3 on the nonfiction list.