What the Heck Happened?: New at Reason

Unprecedented Melcher Media Inc.By my count, there are already well over a dozen books about the 2016 presidential campaign. The first to appear was CNN reporter Thomas Lake’s Unprecedented: The Election That Changed Everything, published just a week after Election Day. Technically speaking, Unprecedented wasn’t even the first: BuzzFeed‘s McKay Coppins wrapped up his book The Wilderness in late 2015, a full year before Election Day. And though there are many things to be praised about The Wilderness, its prescience is not among them, writes Glenn Garvin in his round of up of 2016 campaign books.