Now in paperback with new material, the #1 New York Times besteller, a "compelling" (New York Times) and "comprehensive" (TIME) postmortem of the most shocking and bitter election struggle in historyand how Democrats can learn from Hillary Clinton's mistakes
JON ALLEN has covered national politics for Politico, Bloomberg, and Vox. He is the head of community and content for Sidewire, and writes a weekly political column for Roll Call. AMIE PARNES is the senior White House correspondent for The Hill newspaper in Washington, and also covers Hillary Clinton.
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 familiar and others a consequence of the shifting American
electorate.”
—The Guardian
“Hillary Clinton’s loss at the hands of Donald Trump last November
is the single biggest upset in modern presidential politics. I’ve
spent the intervening months trying to understand what Clinton’s
defeat said about the electorate, about Clinton and about the
campaign she ran. Now, there’s a book that does all of that for
me!”
—Chris Cillizza, CNN
“In the last weeks before the election, the Hillary Clinton
campaign did no polling… This is one of the thousand revelations in
Shattered, the new book by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes that, for
political junkies, redefines the word ‘juicy’ for our time… Allen
and Parnes pile up headshaking detail after headshaking detail from
the very beginning of her campaign to its end.”
—New York Post
“We’ve waited five months but we finally have the first thorough
dissection of the mangled road kill that is the Hillary for
president campaign. It’s called Shattered… It’s full of revelations
about Clinton’s failed campaign.”
—Tucker Carlson, host of Fox’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight”
“Gripping.”
—ABC’s “Good Morning America”
“Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign, the new book
by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, is absolutely gripping reading,
chock full of juicy reporting about the Democratic nominee’s
campaign that you really wish you had read during the actual
campaign.”
—The National Review
“Writing in a lively and fast-paced narrative, Allen and Parnes use
their unparalleled access… to richly document what it felt like to
be aboard the Clinton Hindenburg…”
—Vox.com
“Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign should be
required reading for anyone planning to run a political
campaign.”
—Columbus Post-Dispatch
"[Allen and Parnes] have written the best making of the president
book since the genre was created by Theodore H. White in
1960."
—Newsmax
“An in-depth dissection of Hillary Clinton's second campaign for
the presidency, a failure on many counts… this readable, endlessly
fascinating autopsy by Roll Call columnist Allen and The Hill White
House correspondent Parnes, who co-authored HRC: State Secrets and
the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton (2014)… A top-notch campaign
examination. If, like so many others, you wonder what on earth
happened in November 2016, this is all the explanation you
need.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred)
“Shattered provides a sharp behind-the-news and behind-the-scenes
palette of details for a campaign that, in retrospect, seemed
preordained to fail, and fail miserably.”
—The Globe and Mail
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