Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign (Unabridged) Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign (Unabridged)

Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign (Unabridged‪)‬

    • 4.4 • 18 Ratings
    • $19.99

    • $19.99

Publisher Description

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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.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
NARRATOR
KF
Kimberly Farr
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
16:52
hr min
RELEASED
2017
April 18
PUBLISHER
Random House Audio
SIZE
1
GB

Customer Reviews

Shineon83 ,

Hillary-Controlled Narrative

....This COULD have been a really informative, behind-the-scenes look at HRC’s failed second White House bid—had the authors not been so tied to, and dependent upon, Hillary Clinton’s patronage, in order to have access in the first place...

....A major red flag lay in the fact that “Shattered” is the third book the authors have written about HRC...To anyone familiar with how the Clintons operate—and their almost pathological need to control their own narrative —the fact that the same, two authors have been given repeated, unusual access, signals that the Clintons have been pleased with the narrative the authors have written about them (and with Hillary’s very controlling need to be hands-on, it would be surprising, indeed, had she not had final, editorial control over this books content...

......The narrative of “Shattered” too closely mirrors Clinton’s own take on the race (in her largely self-serving book, “What Happened”)...Major emphasis is given to “The Comey Letter” as the reason for Clinton’s loss...Extremely negative information about HRC, herself—which was revealed in the John Podesta/Wikileaks emails is completely omitted from the book (such as Hillary’s having been provided with debate questions prior to the debates; and very negative descriptions of Hillary by former Joint Chiefs Of Staff, Colin Powell, among others)...These omissions practically shout the question, “Why?”...One can only guess that less-flattering—but valid—criticisms of HRC as a candidate/person were purposely omitted by writers wishing to have continued access to Clinton (thus, placing in question their supposed lack of bias)...

....As for the book, itself, while mildly interesting, the repeated, fawning & sympathetic coverage of what was, an extremely flawed, ethically-challenged, and incredibly pampered candidate, makes it a very one-sided, superficial read.....Grade: D+

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