Who Will Write the Book on the 2016 Campaign?

Washington Post: “Campaign-trail accounts have long been a staple of publishing, and many have become classics of the genre, including Theodore White’s The Making of the President 1960, Joe McGinnis’s The Selling of the President 1968, and Richard Ben Cramer’s What It Takes, a history of the 1988 campaign.”

“Given this year’s saturation coverage of the race, Hillary Clinton’s penchant for privacy, Donald Trump’s banishment of some reporters, and the dominance of social media, editors say that the challenge will be to offer fresh information, extraordinary insights or a new way of recounting recent history.”

“Editors expect journalists Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, who wrote Game Change and Double Down, juicy accounts of the 2008 and 2012 elections, to write a third volume.”