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Compelling, ambitious reads you can’t afford to miss. As the #MeToo movement revived interest in sexual misconduct allegations against President Trump, national enterprise reporter Eli Saslow started thinking about the 19 accusers. He wondered, he said, "what the experience is like for one of the 19." Saslow — who won a 2014 Pulitzer Prize for an intimate and deeply reported series about food stamps — compiled short bios of each woman and watched interviews with them. He was most intrigued by Rachel Crooks, who claimed Trump began kissing her without her consent beside an elevator in Trump Tower in 2006. At the time, she was 22, and he was 59.  "Rachel very quickly stood out," Saslow said, because she lived in a part of Ohio that had voted overwhelmingly for Trump. "There was just a lot more tension in her life and daily experience" than many of the president's other accusers. Not everyone in Crooks's own f...

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