Shattered
Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign
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3.6 • 5 Ratings
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Publisher Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The sprawling narrative from journalists Allen and Pares incorporates multiple unnamed insider sources who agreed to share their firsthand experiences anonymously. A fair amount of straight-up dialogue materializes at key intervals, but the book's foundation is extensive sections describing the perspectives of the key players in Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign and the factors that contributed to her loss to Donald Trump. Veteran stage actress Farr juggles these elements smoothly, partly because her serious tone and metered pacing resemble the voice of Clinton herself. She also revs up the tension by adding extra weight to her voice in some of the more dramatic parts of the narrative, such as when the campaigners react to public statements made by then FBI director James Comey and of course the drawn-out events of election night. Farr helps the authors paint mental pictures for the audience. The threads will come together most clearly for those listeners who are already steeped in political news coverage. A Crown hardcover.
Customer Reviews
Shattered........well done and very believable
I recognize that HRC has achieved much in her life and is to be commended. However, I believe that her establishment of her own email system, not taking responsibility for Benghazi, and earnings from speeches for the Clinton foundation hurt her reputation considerably.
Furthermore, she lacked the vision required to lead the country and the book clearly illustrates this.
President Trump is a bit of a buffoon with an out of control ego but he has demonstrated talent for selecting good people and does have many good ideas. HRC should recognize this as well as the fact that she is not Presidential material.
Good book, well written.