The Big Apple’s most prominent socialist is already fueling capitalism.
A book about mayoral Democratic primary winner Zohran Mamdani’s campaign is already up for sale even though the lefty mayoral candidate still needs to get past the November general election.
“Run Zohran Run!” by Brooklyn academic Theodore Hamm went out on presale Tuesday — the same day Mamdani officially locked up the Democratic nomination in the mayor’s race and a week after he defeated ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo and a slew of other candidates in the June primary.
Paperback editions will cost $18 while the e-book version is $10, and will be mailed out sometime in August, according to the independent publishing house OR Books.
“As fast-paced and compelling as its subject, Run Zohran Run! reveals how a charismatic candidate and a vibrant grassroots campaign ended a New York dynasty and set the stage for the city’s most progressive mayor yet,” according to a description of the fawning nod to the upstart campaign.
The book, which features a cover with the colors of Mamdani’s campaign logo, also promises to provide readers with “firsthand knowledge” of the impressive run leading up to the Democratic primary on June 24.
Hamm, who also penned a book about US Senator and past presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and his Brooklyn roots, told The Post he started the project in March and is now putting the finishing touches on the book.
“We’re trying to include as much to make it as current as possible,” said Hamm, who has written about this year’s Dem primary for various lefty publications and chairs the journalism school at St. Joseph’s University in Clinton Hill.
“I’m confident that it’s going to be a useful account of how things played out,” he said.
Some social media commenters were stunned — or bothered — that the book was coming out before the general election. In November, Mamdani will face Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa and several candidates running on minor ballot lines — incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, Cuomo and attorney Jim Walden.
“Are you f–king kidding me? he won the PRIMARY. deal with your opportunistic s–t once the whole damn thing is over,” one social media user argued.
Aren’t we still in the book right now? Like before, we get to the book writing phase, don’t we have to finish the fight ???” another account wrote.
But Hamm insisted the book is meant to focus on the primary and additional chapters could possibly be added later.
“If exciting stuff happens through the fall general election we can add that to subsequent editions,” he said.
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