The Real Anthony Fauci

The Real Anthony Fauci is a 2021 nonfiction book by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in which he attacks Anthony Fauci and his three decades of leadership of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. In the book, Kennedy offers misinformation about Fauci's role during the HIV epidemic and the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States and HIV/AIDS denialism and was described as "controversial" by The Guardian and Publishers Weekly. Publication The Real Anthony Fauci is a 480 page book written by anti-vaccination conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. It was published by Skyhorse Publishing on November 16, 2021. Synopsis The book accuses American public health leader Anthony Fauci of thirty years of abuse of power, during both the HIV epidemic and the COVID-19 pandemic. It includes dustjacket blurbs by Tucker Carlson, Naomi Wolf, Oliver Stone, and Alan Dershowitz. In the book, Kennedy accuses Fauci of pulling off "a historic coup d’état against Western democracy" and promotes unproven COVID-19 treatments, including hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin. The author shares his opinion that COVID-19 vaccines are not sufficiently safety tested, and likens vaccine mandates in the United States to living under the rule of Nazi Germany.