Scott Rhee's Reviews > Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History

In 2015, NBC correspondent Katy Tur was given the unlikely job of following Donald Trump in the early days of the presidential campaign. Trump was a long-shot and wasn’t expected to go far on the campaign trail. He had a history of running in past years and dropping out early. Tur wasn’t expecting this assignment to last long.

Little did she—-or anyone else—-know.

“Unbelievable” is her memoir of that hellish assignment. Starting with an hour-plus-long interview with Trump after which he angrily screamed at Tur for “stumbling” over three questions during the interview and then threatened her and NBC to air the interview in full, unedited, or he’d sue, Tur’s experience with Trump along the campaign trail was anything but pleasant.

At rallies, he consistently called her out as “the enemy” and a “terrible” journalist, which riled the mobs to shout horrible insults about her and journalists in general. The hostility from Trump and his rally-goers was palpable and dangerous. Then, inexplicably, Trump would congratulate her later, one on one, about what a good job she was doing.

Schizophrenic didn’t begin to describe Trump’s weird, completely unpresidential behavior.

Tur writes about it all, in a humorous and rapid-fire delivery that is reminiscent of Hunter S. Thompson’s gonzo journalism (minus all the illicit drug use, of course). Indeed, her book could almost be subtitled “Fear and Loathing on the Trump Campaign Trail”. It is, like Trump, crazy and scary.

The book ends on the days following the election, where the four-year nightmare for the country began.