Unbelievable : my front-row seat to the craziest campaign in American history

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Unbelievable : my front-row seat to the craziest campaign in American history

Title remainder

my front-row seat to the craziest campaign in American history

Statement of responsibility

Katy Tur

Title variation

My front-row seat to the craziest campaign in American history

Creator

• Tur, Katy, 1983-
• trueTur, Katy

Author

• Tur, Katy, 1983-

Subject

• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political
• trueLife stories -- Arts and culture | Writing | Journalists
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Campaigns & Elections
• truePolitical campaigns
• truePolitical parties
• truePolitics and global affairs -- Elections
• truePolitics and global affairs -- Political figures
• truePresidential candidates
• truePresidents -- United States -- Election -- 2016
• Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 2016
• trueTrump, Donald, 1946-
• Trump, Donald, 1946-
• trueTur, Katy
• United States -- Politics and government -- 2009-2017
• trueWomen television journalists
• trueWomen television newscasters and commentators
• trueTelevision news
• trueAutobiographies and memoirs
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Editors, Journalists, Publishers

Genre

• truePolitics and global affairs
• trueLife stories
• trueAutobiographies and memoirs

Language

eng

Summary

• The NBC news correspondent assigned to cover the Trump campaign for the 2016 presidential election shares her perspective on witnessing Trump's unexpected campaign successes
• "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. 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. 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. [This book] 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?"--Jacket

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

AZZPT

Dewey number

324.973/090512

Illustrations

maps

Index

no index present

LC call number

E911

LC item number

.T87 2017

Literary form

non fiction

Target audience

adult