Shattered

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 famili