The pages of Unbelievable burst with energy. She does so in a stampeding prose that mimics the hoofbeats of campaign workers trying to rein in their impulsive candidate, sycophants hoping to let him run free, and dozens of journalists competing for every available avenue of access and every morsel of pertinent or impertinent information. Using her notes, newspaper accounts, the network’s film clips, her own recollections, and those of her fellow reporters, Katy reconstructs the unexpected twists and turns of Trump’s erratic progress toward the presidency. Unbelievable just makes the “real” Katy more real to viewers and readers like me.) I’ve seen her on the screen so many times that I already thought I knew her. (I’m going to call her Katy in this review because, as she notes in Unbelievable, regular cable tv watchers often regard reappearing reporters as familiar family friends. Katy had a front-row seat to every hectic minute. Like everyone else, she expected her assignment to be short-lived, but days, and then weeks, and then months of chaotic electioneering ensued. Available on short notice, she was sent to report on the first few days of the Trump campaign. Katy Tur, NBC and MSNBC reporter, covered his crusade every step of the way. Trump campaign in 2015-16 was probably the most tumultuous of all. The subtitle of Katy Tur’s Unbelievable characterizes her remembrances perfectly: “My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History.” From what I’ve watched on cable television, every presidential campaign is madcap mayhem, but the Donald J. Unbelievable, My Front-row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History.
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