| THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE A Dangerous Time To Tell the Truth in America Jim Acosta New York: HarperCollins, June 2019 |
Rating: 4.5 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-06-291612-9 | ||||
| ISBN 0-06-291612-2 | 352pp. | HC/FCI | $27.99 | |
| Page 17: | "I glanced over at my campaign colleague Katy Tur, of NBC News who shot back a look of astonishment." |
| Missing comma: S/B "News, who". |
| Page 59: | "In early February 2017, Trump was frustrated. He was being thwarted, not only by a news media that refused to roll over, but also by a U.S. justice system that was flexing its muscles as a coequal branch of the government." |
| Extra comma, extra word: S/B "thwarted not only" and "news media". |
| Pages 70-71: | "It's OK, Jim (ph). It's OK, Jim, (ph), you'll have your chance." |
| What means "ph" — paraphrase? |
| Page 81: | "One matter that was of particular interest to federal investigators during the 2016 campaign was that the Russians had succeeded in infiltrating Hillary Clinton's private email system..." |
| Word choice: S/B "compromising" or "penetrating". "Infiltrate" usually involves moving people surreptitiously past a barrier, or into some protected area or secretive organization. |
| Page 101: | "Frank Sesno, a former CNN White House correspondent and current GWU professor, had invited Sean and me to appear on a panel to discuss news coverage of the Trump presidency." |
| If this is a panel, why is Acosta sitting in the audience while Spicer is on stage with Sesno? Perhaps "panel" doesn't mean what I think it means? |
| Page 219: | "More like Close Encounters of the Third Kim, as the dictator was the third man in his family to rule the North Korean regime." |
| Clever. |
| Page 254: | "In the year and half since Trump's election, the one constant to his presidency had been his rallies." |
| Missing word: S/B "the year and a half". Or is this a reflection of Acosta's Cuban heritage? It would be a literal translation of the Spanish "En el año y media." |
| Page 346: | "But do Democrats really believe Trump will reciprocate with truly bipartisan initiatives to address, say, the epidemic of mass shootings that has ravaged communities from Newton, Connecticut; to Parkland, Florida; to Las Vegas?" |
| Semicolons are not appropriate here. I would simply delete them. However, commas could be substituted. |
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