Skyhorse published anti-Fauci books by Kennedy, his son and Rand Paul

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his son and Senator Rand Paul all wrote anti-Fauci books through Skyhorse Publishing, linking a political campaign against Anthony S. Fauci to a house that has turned contrarian titles into a recurring business. Skyhorse says it was founded in 2006 and has 112 New York Times bestsellers and more than 12,000 books on its backlist.

Kennedy's The Real Anthony Fauci is the flagship title. Skyhorse bills it as a No. 1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Amazon Charts, USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestseller, and lists it at $32.50. Kennedy returned to the same publisher for American Values: Lessons I Learned from My Family, which Skyhorse's Children's Health Defense Books imprint published on Sept. 26, 2023. Kennedy's son also wrote a Fauci-critical book in the same orbit.

The company sits close to Kennedy's political orbit. Tony Lyons, Skyhorse's founder, helped Kennedy mount his presidential bid, and the house has built a reputation for taking on authors that other publishers avoid. That makes Fauci criticism useful as both ideology and catalog, with the same names moving between campaigns, books and publicity.

Skyhorse also published Rand Paul's Deception: The Great Covid Cover-Up, which argued that Fauci misled the country about COVID-19. The publisher marketed the book by saying Paul was "on to Anthony Fauci from the start." Paul's long-running clash with Fauci has also played out in Senate hearings, and in July 2026 Paul released Fauci diary entries and said they showed a "level of dishonesty" that was "really astounding."

Fauci retired from government service in late 2022 after helping lead the U.S. COVID-19 response at the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. His name remains one of the most reliable triggers in post-pandemic politics, and Skyhorse has repeatedly shown how that attention can be packaged for sale.