This brings me to Katy Tur’s Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History. If some of these books are churned out to cash in on a story of the moment, other more important pieces of writing should outlast the freakishness of the day. A book about the American political world comes out, is mined by online commentators for anecdotes and incidents that prove their worldview, and by next week the book’s forgotten: covering crises from months previous, it already feels a decade out of date. Tur was a foreign correspondent who came home to her most foreign story of all.Politics moves fast in the age of Trump, and political writing even more so. 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. Unbelievable is her darkly comic, fascinatingly bizarre, and often scary story of how America sent a former reality show host to the White House. Through all the long nights, wild scoops, naked chauvinism, dodgy staffers, and fevered debates, no one had a better view than Tur. The Boys on the Bus became the Girls on the Plane. She was part of the first women-led politics team in the history of network news. At one point, he got a crowd so riled up against Tur, Secret Service agents had to walk her to her car. He tried to charm her, intimidate her, and shame her. In return, Trump repeatedly singled Tur out. 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.įrom day 1 to day 500, Tur documented Trump’s inconsistencies, fact-checked his falsities, and called him out on his lies. Katy 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. FROM THE RECIPIENT OF THE 2017 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in JournalismĬalled "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.
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