One thing I almost respect about “American Canto,” Olivia Nuzzi’s chaotic and elliptical new book about the simultaneous implosions of her life and of America, is that she doesn’t pander. The former Washington correspondent for New York magazine, Nuzzi knows what readers want from her: the story of her baffling affair with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and ugly breakup with her fellow journalist Ryan Lizza. She writes that when her boss at New York found out about her relationship with Kennedy, whom she’d profiled for the magazine, she was given the option to save her career by coming clean publicly. “Tell all,” she writes. “Spare no detail, spare my job and my life as it was.”
