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Chapter Eight — The Inventor The research park outside Raleigh is called Research Triangle Park, which is the kind of name a region gives a thing when it is proud of the thing and not quite sure what to call it. The park is a long rectangle of corporate campuses Read more

He is sitting in a folding chair against the back wall, where the contractors are supposed to sit, with a notebook on his knee that he is not writing in. The room is the front room of a concrete house with a tile floor and a single ceiling fan that Read more

Draft 1. Approximate length: 4,000 words. Voice: continuous. The chapter does one thing: walk the reader through the Ohio Senate primary of 2022 and the conversion narrative that preceded it. By the end of the chapter the reader understands two things — what fifteen million dollars buys, and Read more

Draft 1. Approximate length: 2,500 words. Voice: continuous. The chapter does one thing: consolidate Part One and prepare the seam to Chapter Seven. The chapter is short on purpose — the reader has been reading reportage for five chapters and needs a beat. The chapter ends with the Read more

MAKING OF A PRESIDENT Chapter Five — The Ticket and the Money Behind It Draft 1. Approximate length: 4,000 words. Voice: continuous. The chapter does one thing: walk the reader through the vice presidential selection in July of 2024 and the unprecedented public coordination of the technology billionaire network in Read more

MAKING OF A PRESIDENT Chapter Three — The Book That Was a Resume Draft 1. Approximate length: 3,800 words. Voice: continuous. The chapter does one thing: explain how a memoir written by a Yale Law student in his late twenties became a piece of political infrastructure. By the end of Read more

MAKING OF A PRESIDENT Chapter Two — The Network Draft 1. Approximate length: 4,200 words. Voice: continuous with Chapter One. The chapter does one thing: replace the reader’s mental image of a single billionaire kingmaker with the reality of an industry. By the end of the chapter the reader understands Read more

MAKING OF A PRESIDENT Chapter One — The Made Man Draft 1. Approximate length: 3,400 words. Voice: Hynes from UNINCORPORĀTUS — concrete, worker-centered, unflinching, not partisan, not abstract. The chapter is reported. Every fact is a fact the reader can check. The chapter does one thing: build trust with the Read more