Draft:John Major: The Autobiography

John Major: The Autobiography is a memoir by former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom John Major

Publication
In November 1999, Major promoted his book at an event at the London Chamber of Commerce & Industry hosted by President of the Chamber of Commerce Colin Parsons. The event was broadcasted on the American television program Book TV on the C-SPAN2 cable network.

Reception
Nielsen Book Research reports that the book sold 91,513 copies with 5,415 of those being in the first week. Compared with Tony Blair's A Journey, Gordon Brown's My Life, Our Times and David Cameron's For the Record the book ranks second in terms of sales and third in terms of first week sales.

Conservative MP Kenneth Baker who had served as home secretary under Major wrote a review of the book for The Guardian. Baker claimed that the book was Major's attempt to "influence the Muse" so that when he "comes to be sieved he will not fall into the group of the less successful Prime Ministers of the twentieth century" whom Baker described as being Arthur Balfour, Neville Chamberlain and Anthony Eden.