When the book "The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation" by authors Kate Kelly and Robin Pogrebin, was released, people on both sides were somehow hoping it would verify their closely-held beliefs. But the book instead gives a more robust picture of Justice Kavanaugh and his accuser Christine Blasey Ford -- something the veteran New York Times reporters made their mission.
The authors sat down with In-Depth hosts Charles Feldman and Mike Simpson to discuss the fall-out of the book's September release.
The book is set in the summer of 1982, the time when Blasey Ford accused Kavanaugh of trying to rape her.
The world of Kavanaugh and Blasey Ford as described by Kelly and Pogrebin was one of extreme wealth, summers by the pool at country clubs, and a Kavanaugh who isn't as mild-mannered when he's drinking as he is when he's sober.
But much of the book is dedicated to exploring Blasey Ford as well as accuser Deborah Ramirez, a woman who says Kavanaugh put his penis in her face at a Yale college party.
In the end, Kelly and Pogrebin appear to come to the conclusion that although Kavanaugh likely mistreated Ramirez and Blasey Ford, the man who became a Supreme Court Justice is a totally different man today as he was 30 years ago, and the rest is left up to the reader to determine.
