PositiveThe New York Times Book ReviewI prefer forensics, and so was enthralled by the excavations of Bachelor Nation, a zippy and dishy book whose true focus is the gaps between the actual, manufactured and represented behaviors and feelings on the show ... In addition to conversations with key onscreen participants and behind-the-scenes personnel, Kaufman gets access to some revealing primary-source documents ... Kaufman spends less fruitful time exploring the post-Bachelor ecosystem of offshoot series, Instagram ads and alumni charity events. By that point in the arc, everyone is complicit, playing the character he or she has been handed. But where Bachelor Nation shines brightest is in laying bare what it takes to get everyone in character in the first place.
