In a maneuver perhaps designed to thwart “the Washington read ” – flipping straight to the index to find the pages featuring certain boldface personalities – few figures are referred to by name in Olivia Nuzzi’s memoir.

But many readers will still comb through “ American Canto ” looking exclusively for new details about the scandal that at least briefly derailed Nuzzi’s journalism career. Last year, while she was Washington correspondent for New York magazine, news broke that she had engaged in a romantic relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during his failed 2024 presidential campaign. (At the time, Kennedy’s representatives said that Kennedy and Nuzzi had met on only one occasion, while she was writing a profile of him that New York published in November 2023.) She parted ways

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