Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, MCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime

Heilemann, John; Halperin, Mark

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9780062073235: Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, MCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime

ISBN 10: 0062073230 ISBN 13: 9780062073235

Publisher: Harperaudio, 2010

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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Review:

"The authors of "Game Change" succeed in creating a plausible account of the emotional tumult of the 2008 campaign as it might have been--perhaps even was--experienced by the candidates, their spouses, and their staffs."--Hendrik Hertzberg, "The New Yorker"

"I can't put down this book!"--Stephen Colbert

"You've got to read "Game Change". . . . I read each and every word. . . . "Game Change" is a great book."--Don Imus

"The hottest book in the country."--"The Associated Press"

"The best presidential political book since "What it Takes" by Richard Ben Cramer and Teddy White's books. These are the types of books that got me into politics."--Joe Scarborough

"You've got to read "Game Change." . . . I read each and every word. . . . "Game Change" is a great book."--Don Imus

A smoking new book. . . . The real revelation in "Game Change" Campaigns turn our politicians into lunatics. --Tina Brown, "The Daily Beast""

Heilemann and Halperin have conducted hundreds of interviews to provide the inside story of the 2008 campaign. . . . It vividly shows how character flaws large and small caused Obama s opponents to self-destruct. --Jacob Heilbrunn, "The New York Times Book Review""

A thoroughly researched, well-paced and occasionally very amusing read. . . . The result is something that conveys the feel, or perhaps more accurately the smell, of one of recent history s most thrilling elections, and it does so better than any of the other books already on the market. --"The Economist""

I can t put down this book! --Stephen Colbert"

From the Publisher:

The American title of this book is GAME CHANGE.

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