Front Row at the Trump Show
New York: Dutton, 2020. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. xxvi, [2], 340 pages. Footnotes. Illustrations (color). Index. Jonathan D. Karl (born January 19, 1968) is an American political journalist and author. Karl has covered every major assignment in Washington, D.C., including the White House, Capitol Hill, the Pentagon, and the U.S. State Department, and has reported from more than 30 countries, covering U.S. politics, foreign policy, and the military. Karl is the Chief Washington Correspondent for ABC News and co-anchor of This Week with George Stephanopoulos. Karl served as the Chief White House Correspondent for ABC News from December 2012 through the end of the Trump administration in January 2021. He is the author of the 2020 book Front Row at the Trump Show and the 2021 book Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show. Both books are New York Times bestsellers. In 2021, Mediaite named Karl one of the top 10 "Most Influential in News Media." The publication said, "Jonathan Karl covered many major stories this year as ABC News chief Washington correspondent, but it’s the incredible reporting he dished out in his bestseller — Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show — and how that book propelled the news cycle for weeks that secured his spot so high up on this list. In March 2020, his book Front Row at the Trump Show, written before the COVID-19 pandemic, was released. It debuted at number 3 on the April 19, 2020, New York Times Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction best seller list and spent 5 weeks in the top 15. The book was released in paperback with a new afterward in March 2021 and hit number 6 on the New York Times Paperback Nonfiction best seller list. In a review on Goodreads, Chris Rosa wrote, "This is how you write a Trump book. Jonathan Karl avoids the common pitfalls of covering Trump: personalization, sensationalism, faux outrage and overstated self-regard. President Donald Trump is a tough subject for journalists because of the game he's playing, which creates a trap for the press into which they frequently dive headfirst. Not Karl. He gets it. With a solid mixture of serious-minded factuality and good-humored prose, Karl provides an accessible understanding of the strangest White House in U.S. history. He also explains, calmly and rationally, the dangers presented when our leaders disregard truth or challenge democratic norms for personal gain." The New York Times review called it an account chronicling the first three years of Trump's presidency. "The book feels weightiest toward its end, when Karl addresses 'the president’s incessant telling of untruths' and Trump's dangerous relationship with the press. Unspooling a distressing private Oval Office meeting with the president on the matter, he concludes, 'I fear President Trump's war on truth may do lasting damage to American democracy.'" A review in The Guardian states that the "well-organized and respectfully written" book "conveys the chaos and the characters that inhabit the president’s universe," including "his preternatural disregard for the truth – 'Trump was a serial exaggerator long before he ran for president'." Condition: Very good / Very good.
Keywords: Donald Trump, Presidents, White House, ABC News, Journalism, John McCain, Sarah Sanders, Sean Spicer, Correspondents, Journalism, News Media
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