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Chasing Hillary
Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling | Amy Chozick
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For a decade, award-winning New York Times journalist Amy Chozick chronicled Hillary Clintons pursuit of the presidency. Chozicks front-row seat, initially covering Clintons imploding 2008 campaign, and then her assignment to The Hillary Beat ahead of the 2016 election, took her to 48 states and set off a nearly ten-years-long journey in which the formative years of her twenties and thirties became both personally and professionally intrinsically intertwined to Clintons presidential ambitions. Chozicks candor and clear-eyed perspectivefrom her seat on the Hillary bus and reporting from inside the campaigns Brooklyn headquarters, to her run-ins with Donald J. Trump and her globetrotting with Bill Clinton provide fresh intrigue and insights into the story we thought we all knew. This is the real story of what happened, with the kind of dishy, inside details that repeatedly surprise and enlighten. But Chasing Hillary is also a rollicking, irreverent, refreshingly honest personal story of how the would-be first woman president looms over Chozicks life. And, as she gets married, attempts to infiltrate the upper echelons of political journalism and inquires about freezing her eggs so she can have children after the 2016 campaign, Chozick dives deeper into decisions Clinton made at similar points in her life. In the process, Chozick came to see Clinton not as an unknowable enigma and political animal but as a complex person, full of contradictions and forged in the political battles and media storms that had long predated Chozicks years of coverage. Trailing Clinton through all of the highs and lows of the most noxious and wildly dramatic presidential election in American history, Chozick comes to understand what drove Clinton, how she accomplished what no woman had before, and why she ultimately failed. Poignant, illuminating, laugh-out-loud funny, Chasing Hillary is a campaign book like never before that reads like a fast-moving political novel.
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Sparklemn
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This wasn‘t an entirely flattering portrayal of Hillary, but I feel like I know her better. And respect her for what she has accomplished and where she fell short. I think the author feels the same. Made a great audiobook narrated by Amy!

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Graywacke

In my review four days ago I said it would take a essay for me to explain my response to this book. Well, its now up. You can find it on my Goodreads review or on LibraryThing here: https://www.librarything.com/topic/288371 (go to the bottom of the page)

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Graywacke
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Enlightening but disconcerting. Clinton - the press -it‘s complicated but things just that aren‘t so pretty this close up. I really want to say more, but it will take an essay.

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Graywacke
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I‘ve been trying this out, about half way through. Has me depressed about the press and about HC. 😐

arubabookwoman I don‘t always agree with Hillary‘s politics (I‘m more progressive), but I‘ve never understood why so many seem to hate her and why she gets such negative press. I just read #WhatHappened and she seems like a genuinely nice person. 6y
Graywacke @arubabookwoman me too, but felt she was practical and capable. I was (and am) annoyed she wasn‘t a stronger candidate. I‘m learning here she was terrible at managing the press. 6y
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RaimeyGallant Yeah, but the real question for me is why she didn't recognize her own weaknesses and staff accordingly. 6y
Graywacke @RaimeyGallant it‘s a good question. I‘m thinking - handling public image isn‘t easy, if it doesn‘t come naturally. 6y
RaimeyGallant @Graywacke It's not just her campaign, but the whole tech side. Someone in all the years she was Sec of State, should have said, hey, these old email protocols aren't keeping up with the times. And once the email scandal broke, why did no one with tech savvy think to check state's policy???? 6y
Graywacke @RaimeyGallant emails, oye... 6y
Graywacke @RaimeyGallant my running theory is that the emails are irrelevant. She probably shouldn‘t have deleted stuff, she certainly should have been more secure, but regardless, it‘s small stuff. However, her failure to handle it with the press was serious and eventually a killer. It lingered as an issue until it made a difference. 6y
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awonderinglife
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A really insightful and honest overview of this journalists experience following Hillary Clinton in her attempt to be the first woman president of the USA.

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EmG
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Listening to this on audible. Really enjoying. I love campaign books and this is a well written addition to the cannon. If you wonder how reporters manage the camp follower like existence at same time they are competing to the death for scoops and status, this is the book for you.

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TheBookStacker
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Got this today, very excited to start it. I just can‘t seem to get enough books about this past election and all the key players involved 🤓

mrozzz I feel ya. *sticks nose in Comey memoir rather indiscreetly* 6y
BarbaraTheBibliophage @TheBookStacker @mrozzz I‘m in the same club. I can‘t look away ... 👀 6y
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