HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT

Reviewed 6/19/2020

Hiding in Plain Sight, by Sarah Kendzior

HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT
The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America
Sarah Kendzior
New York: Flatiron Books, April 2020

Rating:

5.0

High

ISBN-13 978-1-250-21071-5
ISBN-10 1-250-21071-2 273pp. HC $27.99

Errata

Page 45: "You are battling ghosts, following trails of disappearing cash and deleted data, hoping that local media (which has been gutted) will do the job of officials (who long ago surrendered their duties to their donors)."
  Number error: S/B "(which have been gutted)".
Page 52: "Media was a weapon: a well-timed bomb, , a scalpel to carve a facade."
  Number error: S/B "were weapons".
Page 76: "I write about a New York past from a Missouri present; I write with a memory that it is my own job to doubt, because I have seen how the media is made."
  Number error: S/B "how the media are made".
Page 83: "Lurid tales are as old as American media itself, but cable news, which kept birthing new channels, was ceaseless."
  Number error: S/B " American media themselves".
Page 111: "New York tabloid media, once known for its jaded toughness, became jittery and hypervigilant."
  Number error: S/B "their".
Page 128: "Journalism had become an industry designed for the Kushners of the world, not for those who would deign to expose them."
  Word choice: S/B "dare".

Index errors

These errors involve a shift of one page forward or back. Probably, therefore, they resulted from last-minute addition or removal of text.

  1. P. 72: Wayne Barrett — indexed on page 73.
  2. P. 172: Bill Browder — Indexed on page 171.
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