Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign
Apr 2017 · Sold by Crown
3.9star
42 reviews
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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.
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.
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3.9
42 reviews
Joseph Richmond
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May 2, 2017
The conclusions drawn and the emphasis made in different parts of the book make it clear this book was written from the perspective of a Hillary supporter; nevermind the fact they say so outright in the beginning of the book. Given the terrible things described within and the anvilicious attempts to humanize Mrs. Clinton at every turn, it's a hard sell to buy into the idea that the authors actually believed Mrs. Clinton was at fault for the loss of he campaign. It's also amusingly hypocritical that they would decry supposed Russian meddling as being more important than the contents of the wikileaks emails, but then would turn around and charge money for a book that hinged on exposing the contents of the campaign Mrs. Clinton ran. And all that supposes we accept as fact the contents of the book itself, which is for me in and of itself a hard sell given the fawning prose. In all, I enjoyed the book; wether fact or fiction it was interesting to read, if a bit dry at times.
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Zach White
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July 2, 2017
Delusional and ignorant left wing talking points. If your in the IM WITH HER cult this book is for you. Absolute garbage. Blames others for running and losing off a poorly run and frankly bland campaign.
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Alfredo “Al” Nava
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April 30, 2017
The book reveals: Sanders Campaign Manager Jeff Weaver agreed with a deal (colluded) with the Clinton campaign to hide or minimize Sanders' delegates away from television cameras to hide the divisions and protests in the party from news audiences.
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About the author
JONATHAN ALLEN is a national political reporter with NBC News. A winner of the Dirksen and Hume awards for his reporting on Congress, he was previously the Washington bureau chief for Bloomberg and the White House bureau chief for Politico.
AMIE PARNES is the senior political correspondent for The Hill newspaper in Washington and a CNN political analyst. She covered Hillary Clinton during the campaign and covers national politics.
AMIE PARNES is the senior political correspondent for The Hill newspaper in Washington and a CNN political analyst. She covered Hillary Clinton during the campaign and covers national politics.
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