Tired of Winning

A broadcast correspondent's contemporaneous record of a turbulent political stretch, the reporter's notebook turned into narrative history. Karl writes from inside the press corps, close to the events, and the value is in the preservation: a careful account set down near enough to the moment to be trusted on the detail. Included selectively, for the durable record rather than the daily story, on the principle that the first draft of history is worth keeping when it is done well.

A broadcast political correspondent who has written a sequence of books documenting a turbulent stretch of the American presidency from inside the press corps. He is read for the contemporaneous record, the reporter's notebook turned into narrative history. The books are included for what they preserve, the events set down close to when they happened, by a witness in the room.