Killing the Rising Sun will be the sixth book in O'Reilly's multimillion-selling Killing series.
Plus, how he's expanding his empire
SpecsWho Bill O'Reilly
Current gig Anchor of the The O'Reilly Factor and executive producer of Legends & Lies
Age 66
Twitter @OreillyFactor
"I don't want to insult you," said Bill O'Reilly as I took a seat in his 17th-floor office late last month, "but I have to sign these plates. But my attention is going to be right on what you're saying."
O'Reilly has just finished taping his nightly show (Donald Trump was a guest), and now he's back in his corner office promoting his top-rated Fox News weekend show, Legends & Lies, while using the time to autograph hundreds of pages for his forthcoming Killing the Rising Sun—the sixth book in the Killing series—about the final months of World War II in the Pacific. Barnes & Noble book signings do not happen in Bill O'Reilly's world. There are more than 12 million Killing books in circulation. "First run on Rising Sun is a million and a half," O'Reilly said proudly. "Costco alone took 400,000."
But this is just one aspect of the Bill O'Reilly empire. The history buff turned his passion into a best-selling business that has spawned film adaptations and a Fox News historical series that O'Reilly appears in and executive produces.
Legends & Lies opens with a slate that says, "News is the first draft of history … but legends take longer to develop." Who, living today, will be written about in 100 years and be considered a legend of the early 21st century?
For sure Barack Obama. Certainly a legacy guy. A lot will be written about him. Good and bad. Trump maybe. If he wins, certainly. But even if he doesn't win, what he did was so extraordinary that people will be looking at it. Hillary Clinton. I'm not sure. Bill Clinton. Not sure. George Bush the younger, probably not.
What don't we know about your friendship with him?
Not much. It's built on sports. We're both sports fans and New York fans. I don't hang with Donald Trump. We go to some games together and once in a while, when he wasn't a politician, when he needed a favor or something, I would be happy to do it for him—if he had some kid who wanted to come and see the show.
The networks were criticized for too much Trump coverage during the primary. Do you think all of that free cable airtime got him to where he is today?
No. I think he used it, and very shrewdly created news, saying things that got him attention like he did in the tabloid press when he was just a businessman. So I think he had to convince people to support him over Rubio and over Cruz. And he did. Simple as that
Legends & Lies opens with a slate that says, "News is the first draft of history … but legends take longer to develop." Who, living today, will be written about in 100 years and be considered a legend of the early 21st century?
For sure Barack Obama. Certainly a legacy guy. A lot will be written about him. Good and bad. Trump maybe. If he wins, certainly. But even if he doesn't win, what he did was so extraordinary that people will be looking at it. Hillary Clinton. I'm not sure. Bill Clinton. Not sure. George Bush the younger, probably not.
What don't we know about your friendship with him?
Not much. It's built on sports. We're both sports fans and New York fans. I don't hang with Donald Trump. We go to some games together and once in a while, when he wasn't a politician, when he needed a favor or something, I would be happy to do it for him—if he had some kid who wanted to come and see the show.
The networks were criticized for too much Trump coverage during the primary. Do you think all of that free cable airtime got him to where he is today?
No. I think he used it, and very shrewdly created news, saying things that got him attention like he did in the tabloid press when he was just a businessman. So I think he had to convince people to support him over Rubio and over Cruz. And he did. Simple as that
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