"Nuzzi, worried Donald Trump will catch on to the relationship and start spreading rumours, convenes an emergency meeting with the Politician to strategise. RFK doesn't see the big deal. So, she agonises Did he take me seriously? and reflects that she had little cause to consider the question before now. But once the question did cross Nuzzi's mind, it imprinted itself on to her psyche."
"American Canto is part-memoir, part-political analysis. But it is, above all else, a plea by Nuzzi to be taken seriously; as a writer, thinker, person. This is not easy in the best of circumstances when, like Nuzzi, you're a young and conventionally attractive woman. And, of course, it is even more difficult when, like Nuzzi, you're a female journalist who made headlines for engaging in an inappropriate relationship with a famous subject."
Olivia Nuzzi recounts an affair with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and worries about exposure during a possible Mar-a-Lago overlap, prompting an emergency strategy meeting. She fixates on whether RFK took her seriously, a question that imprints on her psyche. American Canto combines memoir and political analysis while pleading to be taken seriously as a writer, thinker and person. The narrative examines how youth and conventional attractiveness affect access, preconceptions and misogynistic treatment, and how a reported inappropriate relationship complicates professional standing. Anecdotes include Donald Trump alternately calling her “very young and very beautiful” and later “shaky and unattractive,” and a scene with Maureen Dowd.
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