Chasing Hillary: On the Trail of the First Woman President Who Wasnt

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Hillary Clinton dominated Amy Chozicks life for more than a decade. Here, she tells the inside story of Clintons pursuit of the US presidency in a campaign book like no other.

A breathtaking, page-turning masterpiece Mary Karr
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Amy Chozicks assignments, covering Clintons imploding 2008 campaign and then her front-row seat to the 2016 election on The Hillary Beat, set off a years-long journey in which the formative years of Chozicks life became, both personally and professionally, intrinsically intertwined with Clintons presidential ambitions. As Clinton tried, and twice failed, to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling, Chozick was trying, with various fits and starts, to scale the highest echelons of American journalism.

In this rollicking, hilarious narrative, Chozick takes us through the high- and low-lights of the most noxious and dramatic presidential election in history. Chozicks candour and clear-eyed perspective from her seat on the Hillary bus and reporting from inside the campaigns headquarters to her run-ins with Donald J. Trump provide fresh intrigue and insights into the story we think we all know.

But Chasing Hillary is also the unusually personal and moving memoir of how Chozick came to understand Clinton not as a political animal, but as a complete, complex person, full of contradictions and forged in the crucible of many earlier battles. In the process, Chozick develops an intimate understanding of what drives Clinton, how she accomplished what no woman had before, and why she ultimately failed.

The results also make Chozick question everything shed worked so hard for in the first place. Political journalism had failed. The elite world Chozick had tried for years to fit in with had been rebuffed. The less qualified, bombastic man had triumphed (as they always seem to do), and Clinton had retreated to the woods, finally showing the real person Chozick had spent years hoping to see. Illuminating, poignant, laugh-out-loud funny, Chasing Hillary is a campaign book unlike any other that reads like a fast-moving political novel.

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Chasing Hillary [is] so wickedly readable: like Michael Wolffs Fire and Fury its a nonfiction novel
Peter Conrad, Observer

Grudges, mis-steps and battles with the press corps are revealed in a searing account of Hillary Clintons failed presidential campaign Edward Luce, Financial Times

Riveting This book is in part a memoir and Chozicks first person voice is funny and readable Suzy Hansen, Guardian

A funny, insightful memoirWith her lively voice and eye for detail, Chasing Hillary is an enjoyable read, like The Devil Wears Prada meets The Boys on the Bus Charlotte Alter, New York Times

Amy Chozick has written a breathtaking, page-turning masterpiece that pretends to be about Hillary Clintons defiant presidential run. But Chasing Hillary is also for the brilliant Chozick a deeply personal story. Wait till you get the gory, insider details of the bloodiest political battle in recent memory. A must read! Mary Karr

Amy Chozick sweeps us along on a ten-year chase after the most famous and elusive woman in modern politics. At the bittersweet end, she captures Hillary, and America, and the traveling press, and some part of herself. David Maraniss

This insanely readable book manages to bring humor and a fresh inside perspective to the saddest event in history. The details alone are sure to drive Democrats to fisticuffs, or whatever we do when the kale runs out. Gary Shteyngart

Author Bio

Amy Chozick is an author and a national political correspondent for the New York Times. Most recently, she served as the paper's lead reporter covering Hillary Clinton and the Clinton campaign, a position she assumed in July 2013.