PositiveTIMEIt is hard to imagine many journalists capable of writing a book on this topic on the scale, and with the ambition, of this one. The book draws on Savage’s own reporting, some of it appearing here for the first time. It is clear that he has a wide range of sources, and while there will always be disagreements about specifics—when something exactly happened, who said what to whom, and the like—there is little reason to doubt the broad outlines of the story.
