Unbelievable
My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History
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Reporter Katy Tur's increasing disbelief is crystal clear in her narration of her memoir about covering the Trump presidential campaign for NBC. Trump singles her out at campaign events, calling her a liar and "little Katy." Occasionally, she gets spat on, or she must be accompanied by security out of a rally. The job is a grind, too. She runs from plane to rally to hotel room and repeats it all the next day. As a reporter, she must keep up with each tweet; as a female reporter, she must keep up her appearance and not wear the same outfit twice. The sheer effort needed for all of it is palpable in Tur's performance. Amid her recollections, Tur makes a heartfelt appeal for the importance of truth and an independent media to a democratic system. A.B. � AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine
September 18, 2017
NBC News political journalist Katy Tur offers an entertaining personal account of the nearly two years she spent covering Donald Trumpâs rise to the presidency, âthe most unlikely, exciting, ugly, trying, and all-around bizarre campaign in American history.â Trumpâs presidential run was a surreal experience for many Americans, but for Tur it was also life-changing: she was a relatively unknown London-based foreign correspondent enjoying quiet weekends in Paris and a self-described âpolitical novice" when she got the call to go on the road with Trump in the spring of 2015. âSix weeks, tops,â her bosses told her. Overnight, Turâs life became a blur of planes, cars, buses, hotel rooms, dry shampoo, bad food, rowdy and often disturbing campaign rallies, and headline-grabbing tweet storms. Some 500 grueling days later, Trump was presidentâand Tur had emerged as a battle-tested fixture of the NBC News political team. She was a frequent target of Trumpâs, who famously nicknamed her âLittle Katyâ and whipped his crowds into such an antimedia frenzy that she occasionally required a security detail. While Tur recalls many of the campaignâs unusual moments (Trump defending his penis size in a presidential debate; his hawking of steaks and bottled water at a press conference; the Access Hollywood tape) Turâs narrative is light on political analysis, and it mostly avoids the central question pundits will be exploring for years to come: how did Trump actually win? But Tur's brisk behind-the-scenes account humanizes the press corps, illuminates life on the campaign trail, and delivers on its promise: "I wonât pretend to explain it,â Tur writes, but âI will tell you what I saw.â
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