**Reality check: Haberman and Swan didn’t need audio recordings. Bob Woodward pioneered contemporary historical political journalism by including dialogue in his books that was reconstructed from the memories of people in the rooms where things happened.
**The big picture: Audio recordings or not, the speculation about them, and the extensive coverage of the book’s juicy excerpts, mean more buzz, more book sales … and the making of a classic.
From the Axios article this one is based off;
It’s marketing