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It was never supposed to be this close. And of course she was supposed to win. How Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump is the riveting story of a sure thing gone off the rails. For every Comey revelation or hindsight acknowledgment about the electorate, no explanation of defeat can begin with anything other than the core problem of Hillary’s campaign–the candidate herself.
Through deep access to insiders from the top to the bottom of the campaign, political writers Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes have reconstructed the key decisions and unseized opportunities, the well-intentioned misfires and the hidden thorns that turned a winnable contest into a devastating loss. Drawing on the authors’ deep knowledge of Hillary from their previous book, the acclaimed biography HRC, Shattered offers an object lesson in how Hillary herself made victory an uphill battle, how her difficulty articulating a vision irreparably hobbled her impact with voters, and how the campaign failed to internalize the lessons of populist fury from the hard-fought primary against Bernie Sanders.
Moving blow-by-blow from the campaign’s difficult birth through the bewildering terror of election night, Shattered tells an unforgettable story with urgent lessons both political and personal, filled with revelations that will change the way readers understand just what happened to America on November 8, 2016.
53% of the women didn’t vote for Hillary Clinton. Here’s why. And its not “sexism” or “Russia”. Bought early this morning and Im in the last half of it.Â
Excellent Fascinating read, couldn’t stop reading all day until I had finished the book entirely. Excellent use of journalism to create a cohesive narrative and tell the story from behind the scenes. From the personal views of Clinton’s aides to the coverage of her opponents, November’s election is given more detail and description. I especially enjoyed my own ability to match up the events in the book with my own memories of the campaign trail timeline and the press coverage at those key moments…
Pride Goeth Before The Fall I generally don’t read this sort of book but I thought this one would be interesting as 2016 was one of the few elections with a ‘twist’ ending. Also what made this book interesting was that it was written by people who were clearly enamored of their subject and had expected to write a coronation story about her, having previously written ‘HRC’ – a pre-campaign book singing her praises.Â