Hillary Clinton dominated Amy Chozickâs life for more than a decade. Here, she tells the inside story of Clintonâs pursuit of the US presidency in a campaign book like no other.
Amy Chozickâs assignments, covering Clintonâs imploding 2008 campaign and then her front-row seat to the 2016 election on âThe Hillary Beat,â set off a years-long journey in which the formative years of Chozickâs life became, both personally and professionally, intrinsically intertwined with Clintonâs presidential ambitions. As Clinton tried, and twice failed, to shatter âthat highest, hardest glass ceiling,â 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. Chozickâs candour and clear-eyed perspective â from her seat on the Hillary bus and reporting from inside the campaignâs headquarters to her run-ins with Donald J. Trump â provide fresh intrigue and insights into the story we think we all know.
But 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.Chasing Hillary
The results also make Chozick question everything sheâd 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, is a campaign book unlike any other that reads like a fast-moving political novel.Chasing Hillary
âA breathtaking, page-turning masterpieceâ Mary Karr A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER