A gripping, vivid postmortem of the most shocking and bitter election struggle in history, told from inside the campaign that was supposed to win it all-by the bestselling authors of the Hillary bio HRC
JON ALLEN has covered national politics for Politico, Bloomberg,
and Vox. He is the head of community and content for Sidewire, and
writes a weekly political column for Roll Call.
AMIE PARNES is the senior White House correspondent for The Hill
newspaper in Washington, and also covers Hillary Clinton.
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2017 "[A] compelling new book... It's
the story of a wildly dysfunctional and 'spirit-crushing' campaign
that embraced a flawed strategy (based on flawed data) that failed,
repeatedly, to correct course... The blow-by-blow details in
Shattered are nothing less than devastating... In fact, the
portrait of the Clinton campaign that emerges from these pages is
that of a Titanic-like disaster: an epic fail made up of a series
of perverse and often avoidable missteps by an out-of-touch
candidate and her strife-ridden staff."
--New York Times "How did she lose? Providing that answer is the
mission accepted by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes in Shattered...
They saw and heard far more than most of us, exploring deep inside
'Clintonworld' in search of the real story. And in these pages,
they share enough of what they witnessed to enable us to reach our
own conclusions... Allen and Parnes offer a first bridge beyond the
journalism of the campaign year to the scholarship of the
historians and other scholars who will process all this material
for generations to come."
--NPR "Told largely through background interviews with campaign
staff and a tangle [of] Clinton insiders, the book is a
comprehensive chronicle of how her quest for the White House
lurched and sputtered toward ignominious defeat... [Shattered is]
richly reported."
--TIME "What Allen and Parnes captured in Shattered was a far more
revealing portrait of the Democratic Party intelligentsia than,
say, the WikiLeaks dumps. And while the book is profoundly
unflattering to Hillary Clinton, the problem it describes really
has nothing to do with Secretary Clinton. The real protagonist of
this book is a Washington political establishment that has lost the
ability to explain itself or its motives to people outside the
Beltway... If the ending to this story were anything other than
Donald Trump being elected president, Shattered would be an awesome
comedy, like a Kafka novel--a lunatic bureaucracy devouring itself.
But since the ending is the opposite of funny, it will likely be
consumed as a cautionary tale."
--Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone "Just like Game Change and Double
Down, Shattered comes filled with plenty of juicy behind-the-scenes
stories about the 2016 election... Compiled from anonymous
interviews with more than 100 sources 'up and down the ranks of the
campaign, ' Shattered provides a detailed timeline of how a
'winnable race' was lost."
--Entertainment Weekly "For those who like political autopsies, I
recommend the new book by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes,
Shattered."
--Niall Ferguson, The Boston Globe "This highly entertaining and
fast-moving book provides an extensive analysis of what caused the
failure of Hillary Clinton's unwieldy and hugely expensive campaign
to carry its highly favored candidate across the finish line."
--The Washington Times "This withering account of Hillary Clinton's
Presidential campaign... yields a great deal of backroom color...
the Clinton campaign never had a clear picture of its own candidate
or of what was coming."
--The New Yorker "Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes' exegesis of how
Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 US Presidential Election to--do I
even have to say his name?--is a thorough and, at points, dishy
behind-the-scenes look at what went so horribly wrong in a campaign
that clearly thought they had it right."
--Vice
"A riveting account of the final, dreadful hours of Clinton's long
pursuit of the presidency... Thanks to Allen and Parnes, we now
know how Clinton reacted, at the moment she was supposed to become
the first female president."
--Denver Post "[Shattered] sheds particular light on the painful
turn of events on election night, as Clinton watched the returns
deviate dramatically from the path her campaign had so confidently
predicted... As the first take on Clinton's doomed campaign, [Allen
and Parnes] offer a behind-the-scenes view of the obstacles in her
way--some familiar and others a consequence of the shifting
American electorate."
--The Guardian "Hillary Clinton's loss at the hands of Donald Trump
last November is the single biggest upset in modern presidential
politics. I've spent the intervening months trying to understand
what Clinton's defeat said about the electorate, about Clinton and
about the campaign she ran. Now, there's a book that does all of
that for me!"
--Chris Cillizza, CNN "In the last weeks before the election, the
Hillary Clinton campaign did no polling... This is one of the
thousand revelations in Shattered, the new book by Jonathan Allen
and Amie Parnes that, for political junkies, redefines the word
'juicy' for our time... Allen and Parnes pile up headshaking detail
after headshaking detail from the very beginning of her campaign to
its end."
--New York Post "We've waited five months but we finally have the
first thorough dissection of the mangled road kill that is the
Hillary for president campaign. It's called Shattered... It's full
of revelations about Clinton's failed campaign."
--Tucker Carlson, host of Fox's "Tucker Carlson Tonight"
"Gripping."
--ABC's "Good Morning America" "Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's
Doomed Campaign, the new book by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, is
absolutely gripping reading, chock full of juicy reporting about
the Democratic nominee's campaign that you really wish you had read
during the actual campaign."
--The National Review "Writing in a lively and fast-paced
narrative, Allen and Parnes use their unparalleled access... to
richly document what it felt like to be aboard the Clinton
Hindenburg..."
--Vox.com "Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign
should be required reading for anyone planning to run a political
campaign."
--Columbus Post-Dispatch "[Allen and Parnes] have written the best
making of the president book since the genre was created by
Theodore H. White in 1960."
--Newsmax "An in-depth dissection of Hillary Clinton's second
campaign for the presidency, a failure on many counts... this
readable, endlessly fascinating autopsy by Roll Call columnist
Allen and The Hill White House correspondent Parnes, who
co-authored HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton
(2014)... A top-notch campaign examination. If, like so many
others, you wonder what on earth happened in November 2016, this is
all the explanation you need."
--Kirkus Reviews (starred) "Shattered provides a sharp
behind-the-news and behind-the-scenes palette of details for a
campaign that, in retrospect, seemed preordained to fail, and fail
miserably."
--The Globe and Mail
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