“As Donald Trump rose to power, no journalist busted him earlier or better than the late investigative reporter Wayne Barrett, whose indispensable work is gathered in Without Compromise. Barrett’s pieces provide an x-ray into Trump’s soul, and into the civic corruption that fueled his rise. These stories are essential reading, alive with fresh insights and information illuminating today’s politics, and remind us that rigorous journalism is still democracy’s best defense.”
—Jane Mayer, author of Dark Money
“An instantly classic collection by one of the greatest reporters New York ever produced, and one of the greatest of his era. Few could combine righteous fury with dogged attention to detail like Barrett. This collection is a treasure and (somewhat maddeningly) a reminder that the fools, crooks, and wannabe strongmen that have our republic dangling over a precipice have been this way for a long, long time.”
—Chris Hayes, host of All In with Chris Hayes and author of A Colony in a Nation
“These pages bring Wayne Barrett back to life in all his investigative glory, his moral clarity, his righteous rage. Barrett was prescient, not just about Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani, but also about how, time and time again, individuals and institutions would fail to rein in the greed of those who feed off the public trough and to address the racism that undergirds both public policy and private behavior. Wayne Barrett’s life and work continue to inspire, especially at a time when truth and facts are under siege. He had a mantra: ‘The job of our profession is discovery, not dissertation.’ Journalists are paid to tell the truth, he said, and that he did, no matter who, no matter what.”
—Sheila Coronel, dean of academic affairs and director Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, Columbia Journalism School