Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign
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| Rating | : | 4.23 (971 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06XDS8FST |
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| Number of Pages | : | 569 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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V. Patterson said Pride Goeth Before The Fall. I generally don't read this sort of book but I thought this one would be interesting as "Pride Goeth Before The Fall" according to V. Patterson. 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.To be fair to the authors, they lay the blame for her loss . 016 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.To be fair to the authors, they lay the blame for her loss . S. Wachter said Like a number of other reviewers. I just finished Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign. Like a number of other reviewers, I found it interesting and informative--and also biased. Someone has noted that the bias is perhaps natural, given the source of much of the authors' information, but as I read I found myself questioning some of the characterizations. For instance, the authors frequently assert that Bernie Sanders went "negative" in his campaign while Hillary . "Excellent" according to Maire Phelan. 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
How Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump is the tragic story of a sure thing gone off the rails. Drawing on the authors' deep knowledge of Hillary from their previous book, the acclaimed biography HRC, Shattered will offer 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. 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 winnabl