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Author:
Martin Baron
Publisher:
Flatiron Books
Date:
October 3, 2023
From the former executive editor of The Washington Postcomes a memoir: how he took over the legendary newspaper just as Donald Trump and Jeff Bezos were beginning their epic feud.
What The Reviewers Say
Less a traditional memoir than a closely observed, gripping chronicle of politics and journalism during a decade of turmoil.
Because Baron had published no previous books and hardly any articles, I had no idea of what kind of writer he would be. Editing and writing are related but separate skills, like directing and acting. Baron turns out to be good at both.
Media junkies will find both books indispensable. But like Robert Caro’s biographies, they should appeal to anyone interested in power: how it operates, and how it is lost.
Baron dishes his media stories, most of which involve Trump, largely chronologically. Those of us so inclined will be re-enraged, but not in any new way, about Trump’s threat and how journalism responded. It doesn’t help Baron that much of the ground he covers has already been thoroughly dissected.
