SHATTERED by Jonathan Allen Amie Parnes

Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign by Jonathan Allen, Amie Parnes, No. 1 bestselling book of New York Times Best Sellers. An examination of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

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Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign

by: Jonathan AllenAmie Parnes
No. 1 Best Seller on Friday, April 28, 2017.
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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 tragic 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 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.

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.

More books by Jonathan Allen, Amie Parnes

1. HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton

by: Jonathan AllenAmie Parnes
Release date: Feb 17, 2015
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The mesmerizing story of Hillary Clinton’s political rebirth, based on eyewitness accounts from deep inside her inner circle and featuring a new introduction from the authors

Hillary Clinton’s surprising defeat in the 2008 Democratic primary brought her to the nadir of her political career, vanquished by a much younger opponent whose message of change and cutting-edge tech team ran circles around her stodgy campaign. And yet, six years later, she has reemerged as an even more powerful and influential figure, a formidable stateswoman and the presumed front-runner for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, marking one of the great political comebacks in history. 
 
The story of Hillary’s phoenixlike rise is at the heart of HRC, a riveting political biography that journeys into the heart of “Hillaryland” to discover a brilliant strategist at work. Masterfully unfolded by Politico’s Jonathan Allen and The Hill’s Amie Parnes from more than two hundred top-access interviews with Hillary’s intimates, colleagues, supporters, and enemies, HRC portrays a seasoned operator who negotiates political and diplomatic worlds with equal savvy. Loathed by the Obama team in the wake of the primary, Hillary worked to become the president’s greatest ally, their fates intertwined in the work of reestablishing America on the world stage. HRC puts readers in the room with Hillary during the most intense and pivotal moments of this era, as she mulls the president-elect’s offer to join the administration, pulls the strings to build a coalition for his war against Libya, and scrambles to deal with the fallout from the terrible events in Benghazi—all while keeping one eye focused on 2016.
 
HRC offers a rare look inside the merciless Clinton political machine, as Bill Clinton handled the messy business of avenging Hillary’s primary loss while she tried to remain above the partisan fray. Exploring her friendships and alliances with Robert Gates, David Petraeus, Leon Panetta, Joe Biden, and the president himself, Allen and Parnes show how Hillary fundamentally transformed the State Department through the force of her celebrity and her unparalleled knowledge of how power works in Washington. Filled with deep reporting and immersive storytelling, this remarkable portrait of the most important female politician in American history is an essential inside look at the woman who may be our next president.

2. HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton by Allen, Jonathan, Parnes, Amie (2015) Paperback

by: Jonathan Parnes Amie Allen
Release date: Jan 24, 2020
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The mesmerizing story of Hillary Clinton’s political rebirth, based on eyewitness accounts from deep inside her inner circle. The story of Hillary’s phoenixlike rise is at the heart of HRC, a riveting political biography that journeys into the heart of “Hillaryland” to discover a brilliant strategist at work. Masterfully unfolded by Politico’s Jonathan Allen and The Hill’s Amie Parnes from more than two hundred top-access interviews with Hillary’s intimates, colleagues, supporters, and enemies, HRC portrays a seasoned operator who negotiates political and diplomatic worlds with equal savvy. Loathed by the Obama team in the wake of the primary, Hillary worked to become the president’s greatest ally, their fates intertwined in the work of reestablishing America on the world stage. HRC puts readers in the room with Hillary during the most intense and pivotal moments of this era, as she mulls the president-elect’s offer to join the administration, pulls the strings to build a coalition for his war against Libya, and scrambles to deal with the fallout from the terrible events in Benghazi-all while keeping one eye focused on 2016. HRC offers a rare look inside the merciless Clinton political machine, as Bill Clinton handled the messy business of avenging Hillary’s primary loss while she tried to remain above the partisan fray. Exploring her friendships and alliances with Robert Gates, David Petraeus, Leon Panetta, Joe Biden, and the president himself, Allen and Parnes show how Hillary fundamentally transformed the State Department through the force of her celebrity and her unparalleled knowledge of how power works in Washington. Filled with deep reporting and immersive storytelling, this remarkable portrait of the most important female politician in American history is an essential inside look at the woman who may be our next president.

4. Hillary Clinton – Bí Mật Quốc Gia Và Sự Hồi Sinh

by: Nhiều dịch giảAmie ParnesJonathan Allen
Release date: Jul 21, 2016
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• Cuốn sách xoay quanh các hoạt động chính trị quan trọng nhất của bà Hillary Clinton từ cuộc bầu cử Tổng thống năm 2008 cho đến trước cuộc bầu cử 2016, qua đó cho thấy một chân dung, tiểu sử chính trị sắc nét về Hillary Clinton, người có thể trở thành nữ Tổng thống đầu tiên của Hoa Kỳ.• Cuốn sách cũng khắc họa rất chân thực các khía cạnh hậu trường quan trọng về những mối quan hệ quyền lực Mỹ, sự vận hành của nền chính trị Mỹ, cũng như cách thức nước Mỹ tương tác với thế giới và đã đóng vai trò tác động đến nền chính trị quốc tế ra sao.• “Hillary Clinton – Bí mật quốc gia và sự hồi sinh” được viết dưới dạng tường thuật, phỏng vấn các nhân vật chính trị ở các mức khác nhau từ trợ lý, cố vấn, Thị trưởng, Thống đốc, Nghị sĩ, Bộ trưởng đến Tổng thống Hoa Kỳ, làm rõ những suy nghĩ, toan tính, hành động mang tính cá nhân, đảng phái cho đến những hành động mang “giá trị Mỹ” về chính trị.”Cuốn sách này sẽ là món ăn gây nghiện cho những ai say mê chính trị. Được viết dựa trên hơn 200 cuộc phỏng vấn, đa số trong đó là nặc danh, hai tác giả đã vẽ nên một chân dung đặc sắc về các trợ lý nhà Clinton, trong đó có Doug Band và Huma Abedin…” Glenn C. Altschuler, Giáo sư Đại học Cornell.”Hai tác giả Allen và Parnes đã kể về nhiệm kỳ Ngoại trưởng của Hillary Clinton bằng cái nhìn sâu xa bao quát. Cuốn sách là câu chuyện về một Ngoại trưởng, trước sức ép của các trợ lý và cố vấn của Tổng thống cũng như của Nhà Trắng, đã thực hiện được những chính sách ngoại giao then chốt theo tư tưởng của mình, trong…

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