Front Row at the Trump Show

Praise for Front Row at the Trump Show

Jonathan Karl gives us much more than program notes for the Trump Show in this revealing and personal account of his relationship with our 45th president. We learn what it is really like to be on the White House beat, about the peculiarities of dealing with the personality in the Oval Office, and ultimately the risks and dangers we face at this singular moment in American history. Mike McCurry, former White House press secretary (1995-98) and director/professor, Center for Public Theology, Wesley Theological Seminary

The Constitution is strict: It says we must have presidents. Fortunately, we occasionally have reporters as talented as Jonathan Karl an acute observer and gifted writer to record what presidents do. Karl is exactly the right journalist to chronicle the 45th president, who is more to be polite exotic than his predecessors. George F. Will

No reporter has covered Donald Trump longer and with more energy than Jonathan Karl. It pays off in his account of what he calls the Trump Show with some startling scoops. What did the president scrawl across the rejected resignation letter from his attorney general? He tells us. Susan Page, Washington bureau chief, USA Today
 
Jon Karl is fierce, fearless, and fair. From cub reporter at the NY Post to chief WH correspondent for ABC News, he s covered Donald Trump and the White House for a generation. He knows the man, and the office. Front Row at the Trump Show takes us inside the daily challenge of truthful reporting on the Trump WH, revealing what s at stake with vivid detail and deep insights. George Stephanopoulos

Jonathan Karl is a straight-shooting, fair-minded, and hardworking professional so it s no surprise he s produced a book historians will relish. It s about good old-fashioned news-getting about the process and the rules and how it works. Overlaying it is this most amazing moment in American political history. Underlying it is a story about waking up each morning and trying against the odds to find out what s true. Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal

Front Row at the Trump Show provides an unvarnished view of the deceptions, eccentricities, and occasional achievements of the Trump presidency from a first-rate television correspondent with a ringside seat. Lou Cannon, author of President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime

Must read: Jonathan Karl's Front Row at the Trump Show. Time and again he was in the room where it happened. I've read every book about the Trump presidency. This is the best. Bill Press

Mr. Karl, the chief White House correspondent for ABC News, necessarily tells the story from the media s side, but he is a fair-minded reporter rather than a media cheerleader. Unlike other books about Mr. Trump by members of the news media, Mr. Karl s book presents the 45th president as a complex, multilayered person Mr. Karl also manages to convey something missing from other books by his media colleagues about the Trump era: the sheer hilarity of it all. Wall Street Journal 

A valuable report from the scene of an ongoing train wreck. Kirkus Reviews

Front Row at the Trump Show is the best long-form study of the relationship between Trump and the media and it s not possible to understand the Trump presidency without understanding that relationship. The Morning Dispatch

[Front Row at the Trump Show] is an attempt to capture the madness that is the Trump presidency and the danger to democracy it poses. Aided by measured prose and healthy skepticism, Karl succeeds. Well-organized and respectfully written before the pandemic, Front Row at the Trump Show conveys the chaos and the characters that inhabit the president s universe. The Guardian

Karl, the chief White House correspondent at ABC News, has known Donald Trump since 1994, and it shows. New York Times Book Review

It was so good I was sad when it ended. Olivia Nuzzi, New York magazine