How We Got Here : Diary of a Doomed Coup : A bungle-by-bungle look at how Moscow's hard-liners grabbed for power, and missed. MICHAEL PARKS and JAMES GERSTENZANG, TIMES STAFF WRITERS; This account, written by Times staff writer John M. Broder in Washington, was based on reporting by Times staff writers John-Thor Dahlburg, Carey Goldberg and Elizabeth Shogren in Moscow; staff writers Norman Kempster in Washington and Douglas Jehl in Kennebunkport, Me.; and Moscow Bureau reporter Viktor K. Grebenshikov and researcher Andrei Ostroukh.