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The Book Review

Jill Abramson on the 2016 Presidential Campaign

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

4.23.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2017

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Abramson discusses Katy Tur's "Unbelievable" and Hillary Clinton's "What Happened."

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0:00.0

What was it like to be a woman on the 2016 campaign trail?

0:10.0

Two very different women, two very different books.

0:13.4

We're going to talk with Jill Abramson, a former executive editor of The New York Times

0:18.0

about Hillary Rodden Clinton's new book, What Happened and Katie Turz' new campaign

0:23.1

memoir, Unbelievable.

0:24.4

She knows that he is a creature of media and, you know, he was a reality TV star, but

0:32.4

this is an indication that he's monitoring every word.

0:37.1

Alexander Alter will give us an update from the literary world, plus we'll talk about

0:41.0

what we and the wider world are reading.

0:43.4

This is Inside the New York Times Book Review.

0:45.2

I'm Pamela Paul.

0:52.4

Paula Abramson joins us now from Cambridge.

0:55.3

She is, of course, a former executive editor of The Times and currently is a political

1:00.4

columnist for the Guardian and a senior lecturer at Harvard.

1:04.7

This week, she reviews Katie Turz' new campaign memoir, Unbelievable.

1:09.4

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

1:13.4

Jill, thank you for being here.

1:15.4

I'm thrilled to be with you.

1:17.2

And I'm also excited.

1:18.2

We're going to talk not only about this book, but also about its kind of natural companion,

1:23.4

Hillary Clinton's new memoir, What Happened.

1:27.2

The Hillary book is actually number one on Amazon right now, and Katie Turz' book is

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