Completed: 11/8/2023
Recommendation: Recommended
Recommended By: My Wife
Review:
Martin Baron is the former executive editor of the Washington Post. This book was, therefore, much more about the Post then it was about anything else. Bezos, as the owner, showed up and his foil, Trump, did as well. More though, this book was about the culture of the Post and Baron's effort to keep an even hand. From the book, it seems Baron despised both Trump and Clinton, so his politics were adequately hidden. This book is written by a journalist and reads like that. There are frequent explanations of the same topics throughout the book as though one has only read a chapter and not the book in its entirety. This often happens in books by journalists who are used to constantly re-explaining the context of the current story with the group of larger stories that have graced the medium. I really dislike that. I also didn't particularly enjoy the remarkably defensive tone throughout the latter half of the book which is often Baron on Baron. Overall, this was a decent book with a modern history of The Post as told by the one who crafted it. I can recommend it, but it is not a read that grabbed me and it did not live up to its title.
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