AFT members paid for Weingarten’s book. She kept the royalties

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American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten complains that writing her newly released book “almost killed” her. But based on AFT’s own financial records, it’s the union members who suffered the actual injury.

Hyperbolically titled, “Why Fascists Fear Teachers,” the book was published last September by an imprint of Penguin Random House and represents Weingarten’s first literary effort. 

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