Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
In 2008, the presidential election became blockbuster entertainment. Everyone was watching as the race for the White House unfolded like something from the realm of fiction. The meteoric rise and historic triumph of Barack Obama. The shocking fall of the House of Clinton—and the improbable...
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In 2008, the presidential election became blockbuster entertainment. Everyone was watching as the race for the White House unfolded like something from the realm of fiction. The meteoric rise and historic triumph of Barack Obama. The shocking fall of the House of Clinton—and the improbable resurrection of Hillary as Obama's partner and America's face to the world. The mercurial performance of John McCain and the mesmerizing emergence of Sarah Palin.Based on hundreds of interviews with the people who lived the story, Game Change is a reportorial tour de force that reads like a fast-paced novel. Character driven and dialogue rich, replete with extravagantly detailed scenes, this is the occasionally shocking, often hilarious, ultimately definitive account of the campaign of a lifetime.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780061733635 (0061733636)
Publish date: January 11th 2010
Publisher: Harper
Pages no: 448
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
Writing,
History,
Literature,
Book Club,
American,
Journalism,
Politics,
American History,
Presidents,
Political Science
The political wonk's version of US Weekly. Full of apparentlys, allegedlys and not a source in sight. It's extremely readable (how could multiple train-wrecks not be?) but I still have issues with the way the women are dealt with in the book. When Hillary Clinton talks, she is described as "whining"...
Sooo.... I'm thinking this was not a favorite book of Hilary Clinton. And McCain and Palin. And John Edwards. Obama came out of this smelling like a rose.It was just such an interesting juxtaposition of the Obama and Clinton campaigns. Clinton's seemed to be in disarray and full of infighting with n...
I found it very interesting. It's easy to get caught up in the public personas and forget that these folks are just people. Well done and entertaining as well as informative and interesting.
I found it very interesting. It's easy to get caught up in the public personas and forget that these folks are just people. Well done and entertaining as well as informative and interesting.
Catnip for a political junkie. Political sausage making in all it unglory with a fly on the wall perspective. Could not put it down. The movie should be great. The last comparable book I read was What It Takes: The Way To The White House by Richard Ben Cramer.
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