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The co-founder of the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. super PAC is a Steve Bannon and MAGA media ally
The co-founder of the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. super PAC is a Steve Bannon and MAGA media ally
Tony Lyons is the co-founder of Kennedy’s American Values 2024 super PAC and the president of Skyhorse Publishing — the company that publishes Bannon’s War Room Books imprint
WRITTEN BY JUSTIN HOROWITZ
PUBLISHED 05/10/24 12:50 PM EDT
Tony Lyons, the co-founder of the super PAC supporting independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is linked to prominent figures in the MAGA media world, including podcaster and former Trump strategist Steve Bannon.
Lyons is a friend of Kennedy and the co-founder of his American Values 2024 super PAC. He is also the president of Skyhorse Publishing, an independent book publishing company that has worked with numerous right-wing and MAGA media personalities, including conspiracy theorists Alex Jones, Darren Beattie, Robert Malone, and Kennedy himself, among others.
Lyons is also closely associated with Bannon and his pro-insurrection podcast. He has appeared numerous times on Bannon’s show and publishes Bannon’s War Room Books imprint via Skyhorse. Lyons has helped Bannon’s team publish at least 11 books.
In December 2023, Bannon invited Lyons on his show to celebrate Lyons’ assistance in publishing War Room and MAGA titles.
“You have heroically published so many of the great titles on medical freedom, of which nobody wanted to touch and quite frankly banned. You’re the War Room’s publisher with our imprint,” Bannon said. “Your Skyhorse is now arguably the biggest publisher of conservative or MAGA, or you could even argue right-wing, anti-establishment books.”
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From the December 22, 2023, edition of Real America's Voice's War Room
This was one of many appearances Lyons has made on Bannon’s War Room.
Bannon has also had a longstanding relationship with Kennedy and reportedly helped guide him into launching his campaign for the presidency. According to CBS News’ Robert Costa, Bannon encouraged Kennedy to enter the presidential race in order to act as a “useful chaos agent in 2024 race and a big name who could help stoke anti-vax sentiment around the country.”
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Bannon has spent years promoting Kennedy’s anti-vaccine rhetoric and has repeatedly touted Kennedy's conspiracy theory-laden book about former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci, which was published last year by Skyhorse.
About President and Publisher Tony Lyons
About President and Publisher Tony Lyons
Tony Lyons, President and Publisher at Skyhorse, and an attorney, was Publisher at The Lyons Press between 1997 and 2004. He founded Skyhorse in 2006 and has been involved with every aspect of the book publishing process. Starting with a small team of people, some of whom still work for Skyhorse, Tony has steadily built the company from a start-up to an increasingly prominent mid-sized publisher.
AI Overview
The Lyons Press is an independent publisher that specializes in outdoor adventure books. Nick Lyons founded the company in 1984.
Notable books published by The Lyons Press:
Eiger Dreams by Jon Krakauer
The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
Practical Fishing Knots
The Lyons Press Horseman's Dictionary
The Compleat Waterfo(u)wler
L.L. Bean Outdoor Photography Handbook
History of the Lyons Press
In 1981, Lyons partnered with Peter Burford to form Lyons & Burford, Publishers.
In 1997, the name changed to the Lyons Press.
In 2001, Globe Pequot Press acquired the Lyons Press.
In 2014, Rowman & Littlefield acquired Globe Pequot Press, which included the Lyons Press.
Other books related to outdoor adventure: Streamside Guide to Naturals and Imitations by Art Flick, The Greatest Sailing Stories Ever Told, A River Seen Right, and The Hustler & the Champ.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Lyons
Nick Lyons (born 1932) is a fly-fisherman and angler. In addition to fishing, Lyons was an accomplished writer. He mostly stuck to books in the fly fishing genre. Lyons also made Lyons Press, a publishing agency based in Essex, Connecticut. He is now retired and resides on the east coast.
Lyons graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, after which he served in the United States Army. At the age of 21, he began fly fishing, a passion that would last for the rest of his life.[3] In 1963, he earned a doctorate in English from the University of Michigan.[1]
https://www.catskillmountaineer.com/history-LH.html
Following his graduation from the University of Michigan, Lyons began working at the University of Michigan[4] as an English professor.[5] He then accepted a position at Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY) as an English literature professor in 1961.[6] At the same time, he worked as an editor at Crown Publishers.[1]He worked at CUNY from 1961 to 1988 and served as the executive editor of Crown Publishers from 1964 to 1974.[7]
Personal life[edit]
In 1957, Lyons married artist Mari Blumenau. The two had four children: Paul (1958 - 2018), Charles, Jennifer, and Anthony (nicknamed Tony).[4] Mari, who died in 2016, illustrated many of her husband's books[11] and was a prolific artist.
https://www.marilyonsstudio.com/bio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari_Lyons
https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv68646
Nick Lyons was born on June 5, 1932 in New York, New York. He attended the University of Pennsylvania, Bard College, and the University of Michigan, from which he earned a doctorate in 1963. Lyons married artist Mari Blumenau (1935-2016) in 1957 and the couple had four children; Paul, Charles, Jennifer, and Anthony (Tony). Lyons' academic career began at the University of Michigan where he taught English prior to accepting a position at the Hunter College of the City University of New York in 1961. He remained on the faculty of CUNY until 1988. He also worked as the executive editor of Crown Publishers from 1964-1974. An avid fisherman, Lyons found a way to combine his avocation and profession in 1977 when he created his first publishing company, Nick Lyons Books, as an American subsidiary of the British publisher Benn Brothers Ltd. In 1984, he bought out the subsidiary rights and incorporated as Nick Lyons Books, Inc. The company earned a reputation as one of the premier publishers of fishing books, but it also printed works on nature, camping, adventure, gardening, woodworking, travel, the sea, history, food and wine, art and reference, hunting, general sport, and a few fiction titles. In 1989, in partnership with Peter Burford the name was changed to Lyons and Burford, Publishers. When Peter Burford left the company in 1997, it became the Lyons Press. In 1999, Tony Lyons, Nick's son, took over as President and Publisher of the firm with Nick remaining as Chairman of the Board. During its final full year of production in 2000, Lyons Press published 190 titles and had sales estimated at more than seven million dollars. In 2001 Lyons Press was acquired by Globe Pequot Press of Guilford, Connecticut. As well as being a book publisher, Nick Lyons is a prolific writer and has produced several books on fly fishing. He has written introductions, forewords, and prefaces for many Lyons Press books and also had a feature column of essays named the "Seasonable Angler" in Fly Fisherman Magazine for many years. Lyons has written articles for many other periodicals including Field and Stream and the New York Times, and several anthologies of these essays have been published. He is also a frequent speaker at functions devoted to fishing, including museum openings, conventions, and meetings of assorted fly fishing organizations and clubs.
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