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American Sniper (book) : ウィキペディア英語版 | American Sniper (book)
''American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History'' is a memoir by United States Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, written with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice. With 255 kills, 160 of them officially confirmed by the Pentagon, Kyle is the deadliest marksman in U.S. military history. The book was published by William Morrow and Company on January 2, 2012, and appeared on ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list for 37 weeks. The memoir has sold over 1.2 million copies across all formats (hardcover, paper and ebook), including 700,000 copies in 2015 alone, making it the best-selling book of 2015 so far. It landed atop all the major best-seller lists including the aforementioned ''The New York Times'', and ''Publishers Weekly'', ''USA Today'' and No. 2 on ''Amazon''. Its film adaptation directed by Clint Eastwood was released in 2014. ==Post-publication retraction== In July 2014, the sub-chapter "Punching Out Scruff Face" was removed from later editions of the book, after a three-week trial in U.S. Federal Court where the jury found that the author, Chris Kyle, had unjustly enriched himself by defaming plaintiff Jesse Ventura. In the book, Kyle described blackening the eye of "Scruff Face", whom he later identified in media interviews as Jesse Ventura. The jury awarded $500,000 for defamation and $1,345,477.25 for unjust enrichment. The lawsuit, ''Ventura v. Kyle'', is being appealed by the defendant's estate to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. In December 2014, attorneys for Ventura filed a separate lawsuit against HarperCollins, the parent company of the publisher, for failing to check the accuracy of the story it used in publicity. The suit alleges that the false account used in publicity had "increased sales" and generated "millions of dollars for HarperCollins."
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