Confidence Man

The chronicler's book, built from decades of close reporting on a single subject. Haberman assembles the contemporaneous record into a sustained portrait, the reporter's accumulated detail turned into narrative history. Included here for what it preserves rather than for the daily journalism that fed it: the events set down close to when they happened, by a witness with unusual access. A durable account of a turbulent stretch, written near enough to be trusted on the facts.

A political reporter whose long coverage of a single subject produced Confidence Man, a book-length account drawn from decades of reporting. She is read for the reporter's access and the accumulated detail of close, sustained observation. The book is included here for the durable record it assembles, not for the daily journalism that fed it.