Katy Tur

My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History

Unbelievable

Patrick Book

Zoinks and my goodness. A great counterpoint to some of the more analytical and party-based analyses of the election, and a very insightful window of what it’s like to cover or follow a big story. The elections I have covered are minuscule by comparison and did not entail his mind of ranging, life-consuming coverage; I can’t imagine what this was like, even after reading this.

Timeo Williams

This book certainly adds to the number of perspectives on the 2016 presidential election. The author also included a chapter on her childhood and journey towards becoming a journalist/news reporter. 

Some insights:

" Ever wonder how we get a sharply produced obituary of a celebrity or political figure on television minutes after we find out they die? That's right= we prewrite it."(107)

Patricia Nelson

This was a very quick read and a look inside the Trump campaign by the NBC reporter assigned to cover it. Nothing that happened to her was surprising, not by societal norms but rather by the norms of our current president. No one should have to put up with that, much less from someone running for the highest office in our country. I'm glad she wrote the book though, so that we will have one more thing to help us look back with clarity. As she says in the book "Human beings have an edit button in their heads, an amnesia switch that none of us consciously controls". She also tries to shine a light on the voters that voted for him and the fact that they were not given perhaps the attention that was required by the rest of us. They were looking for answers and Trump was willing to give them some.

Unbelievable My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History

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