‘A remarkable function of slowed-down journalism…They may be doing their jobs as journalists and writing the first draft of history.’ -Jill Filipovic, The Washington Post

‘…Ample but also damning.’ -Hanna Rosin, The New York Times

From two NY Times reporters, a deeper look at the formative years of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and his confirmation.

In Sept 2018, the F.B.I. was given only a week to investigate allegations of intimate misconduct about The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation against Brett Kavanaugh, Chief executive Trump’s Supreme Court nominee. But even while Kavanaugh was sworn in to his lifetime position, many questions continued to be unanswered, leaving an incredible number of Americans unsettled.

During the Senate confirmation hearings that preceded the bureau’s brief probe, New York Times reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly broke critical stories about Kavanaugh’s past, including the ‘Renate Alumni’ yearbook story. These were inundated with tips from previous classmates, friends, and affiliates that couldn’t be fully investigated before the verification process closed. Right now, their book fills in the blanks and explores the fundamental question: Who is Brett Kavanaugh?

The Education of Brett Kavanaugh paints a picture from the prep-school and Ivy-League worlds that formed our newest Supreme Court Justice. By providing commentary from essential players from his verification procedure who haven’t yet spoken publicly and going after lines of inquiry which were remaining hanging, it will be important reading for anybody who would like to understand our politics program and Kavanaugh’s unexpectedly emblematic function in it.