Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime, (Paperback)

from Katya0133

I picked up this book a year after it came out and more than two years after the events it recounts, so I was worried it might already be dated. I was wrong. Even though the ending of this book is a foregone conclusion, and even though I followed the events of the 2008 election very closely, I st...

from slouchycowman

Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin is an amazing look into the 2008 election. Game Change is not the HBO movie you watched a few years ago, it goes much deeper. This book gives intimate details on everyone involved...

from bobbieharv

So much of this was familiar, from everything I'd obsessively read already and from the leaks, but I devoured it nonetheless. Most interesting were the glimpses of Palin's emotional instability, and the chapter at the end about how Hillary Clinton almost refused to be Secretary of State. Very nos...

from Katya0133

I picked up this book a year after it came out and more than two years after the events it recounts, so I was worried it might already be dated. I was wrong. Even though the ending of this book is a foregone conclusion, and even though I followed the events of the 2008 election very closely, I st...

from MarthaHuntley

This is the perfect book for people interested in the human side of politics to read during this current primary season. It has just enough historical distance to lend perspective and some understanding about the dynamics of primaries in general, and helps explain why the present one is so into c...