Nonfiction spotlight
Original Sin
by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson
A reported account of the 2024 campaign and the questions nobody around the president wanted asked out loud.
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Two political journalists reconstruct a re-election campaign, the inner circle that ran it, and the gap between what staff saw and what the public was told.
Publisher's blurb
Synopsis
Built from more than two hundred interviews, the book follows the decisions, denials and staff management that defined a campaign, and the fortnight in which the story became impossible to hold together.
The editorial feature
Reported rather than argued, which is its strength. Whatever your politics, the value here is the granular record of how an organisation talks itself out of noticing a problem.
Book details
- Genre
- Nonfiction
- Released
- 20 May 2025
- Publisher
- Penguin Press
- Extent
- 352 pages
- Featured on
- 20 May 2025
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