Unbelievable
My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History
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Unbelievable
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Katy Tur
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Katy Tur
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Called ""Disgraceful,"" ""third-rate,"" and ""not nice"" by Donald Trump, NBC News correspondent Katy Tur reported on—and took flak from—the most captivating and volatile presidential candidate in American history. Tur lived out of a suitcase for a year and a half, following Trump around the country, powered by packets of peanut butter and kept clean with dry shampoo. She visited forty states with the candidate, made more than 3,800 live television reports, and tried to endure a gazillion loops of Elton John’s ""Tiny Dancer""—a Trump rally playlist staple.
From day 1 to day 500, Tur documented Trump’s inconsistencies, fact-checked his falsities, and called him out on his lies. In return, Trump repeatedly singled Tur out. He tried to charm her, intimidate her, and shame her. At one point, he got a crowd so riled up against Tur, Secret Service agents had to walk her to her car.
None of it worked. Facts are stubborn. So was Tur. She was part of the first women-led politics team in the history of network news. The Boys on the Bus became the Girls on the Plane. But the circus remained. Through all the long nights, wild scoops, naked chauvinism, dodgy staffers, and fevered debates, no one had a better view than Tur.
Unbelievable is her darkly comic, fascinatingly bizarre, and often scary story of how America sent a former reality show host to the White House. It’s also the story of what it was like for Tur to be there as it happened, inside a no-rules world where reporters were spat on, demeaned, and discredited. Tur was a foreign correspondent who came home to her most foreign story of all. Unbelievable is a must-read for anyone who still wakes up and wonders, Is this real life?
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interesting, insightful and telling.
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(OK, that’s not nuanced in terms of individuals, forgive me, that’s just the cynicism of the Old World, seen it all, at least since Romulus and Remus founded Rome.)
However, the Trump phenomenon is still, for many of us, even Old World stoics, beyond understanding.
For Katy Tur, ambitious young journalist, who followed his rise from “nothing” in terms of political regard, to being entrusted with the power to obliterate this planet in an instant, the campaign trail was a test of endurance, an assignment as war correspondent, which she does well to commit to history.
I found the shifts of time frame back and forward somewhat trying at times- just tell us in sequence, please, Katy, I wanted to say! - but was glad that she could sometimes make me laugh and that she could appreciate the beauty of Scotland, when Trump’s entourage went to play golf. (He seemed to try to take credit for creating the Scots landscape, but it’s unlikely the Almighty will Tweet an insulting putdown.)
Ms Tur was subjected to personal verbal abuse by Trump of a nature which would be unacceptable in a mature civilised democratic country, which eventually resulted in death threats, the need for security guards and protection, persecution on social media, and she has witnessed at close quarters the effects of Trump’s rhetoric (no that’s too flattering a word) his rants, on people who seemed quite human - except for Tshirts calling for extermination and sexual degradation of the Democratic candidate....!!
I first became aware of Trump’s existence on the far margins of my conscientiousness because of his marital shenanigans, chiefly notable for the obscene financial claims and “too much information” of a sexually explicit nature. Then he became the man who thought he could buy Scots law - he didn’t and couldn’t prevent community developments he thought interfered with the view from his golf courses.
On account of his aggressive, litigious stance against the Scottish people, he became persona non grata outside his little fiefdoms on the links; and that was before he crassly congratulated Scotland for voting for Brexit (which we had resoundingly rejected!)
It is still difficult to grasp that a man who has boasted of sexual assault on women, who has behaved repeatedly in public to degrade, dehumanise 52% of the human species who happen to be female, and encourages others to emulate him, not to mention other groups, has become a Messiah- not merely the current temporary head of state, but the incarceration of holy America.
Terrifying eye-witness account
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Excellent book
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L-O-V-E-D
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Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
Yes. The book gives a good insight into how political campaings are covered by the media. The story is a bit hard to follow, because Tur, the author makes these odd time jumps from election night to something that took place on day 200 of the campaing and straitght back to election night. That took me out of the story from time to time.What do you think the narrator could have done better?
When Tur is re-living the journalistic moments she does a good job, but when she goes and reads the more personal parts of the book then she kinda forgets that she is making an audiobook and just riffs. I get it it`s her own book, but I would say to her that despite the fact that it`s your own text try to read it with a little bit more control and calm.Any additional comments?
I did not nead all that information about her FRENCH boyfriend.Could have been better
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