Through Obama s Book Broker Mon Mar 8, 2021 Call it The Book From Hell. As nursing homes filled with the dead, Governor Cuomo decided to go on a book tour. The book touted his imaginary leadership and was a key element in the Democrat campaign to claim that New York, in contrast to the Trump administration, was a model for dealing with the pandemic. The biggest curiosity of all remains the size of Cuomo’s book deal with Crown, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House. The governor has declined to specify how much he got for the book, saying in August, “You’ll see it on my financial disclosure,” the deadline for which is May 15.