Double Down: Game Change 2012

Double Down: Game Change 2012

Michiko Kakutani,Â The New York Times:
"Those hungry for political news will readÂ Double DownÂ for the scooplets and insidery glimpses it serves up about the two campaigns, and the clues it offers about the positioning already going on among Republicans and Democrats for 2016 ... The book testifies to its authorsâ€™ energetic legwork and insider access... creating a novelistic narrative that provides a you-are-there immediacy... They succeed in taking readers interested in the backstabbing and backstage maneuvering of the 2012 campaign behind the curtains, providing a tactile... sense of what it looked like from the inside."

In their runaway bestseller Game Change, Mark Halperin and John Heilemann captured the full drama of Barack Obamaâ€™s improbable, dazzling victory over the Clintons, John McCain, and Sarah Palin. With the same masterly reporting, unparalleled access, and narrative skill, Double Down picks up the story in the Oval Office, where the president is beset by crises both inherited and unforeseenâ€”facing defiance from his political foes, disenchantment from the voters, disdain from the nationâ€™s powerful money machers, and dysfunction within the West Wing. As 2012 looms, leaders of the Republican Party, salivating over Obamaâ€™s political fragility, see a chance to wrest back control of the White Houseâ€”and the country. So how did the Republicans screw it up? How did Obama survive the onslaught of super PACs and defy the predictions of a one-term presidency? Double Down follows the gaudy carnival of GOP contendersâ€”ambitious and flawed, famous and infamous, charismatic and cartoonishâ€”as Mitt Romney, the straitlaced, can-do, gaffe-prone multimillionaire from Massachusetts, scraped and scratched his way to the nomination.

Double Down exposes blunders, scuffles, and machinations far beyond the klieg lights of the campaign trail: Obama storming out of a White House meeting with his high command after accusing them of betrayal. Romneyâ€™s mind-set as he made his controversial â€œ47 percentâ€ comments. The real reasons New Jersey governor Chris Christie was never going to be Mittâ€™s running mate. The intervention held by the presidentâ€™s staff to rescue their boss from political self-destruction. The way the tense dÃ©tente between Obama and Bill Clinton morphed into political gold. And the answer to one of the campaignâ€™s great mysteriesâ€”how did Clint Eastwood end up performing Dada dinner theater at the Republican convention?

In Double Down, Mark Halperin and John Heilemann take the reader into back rooms and closed-door meetings, laying bare the secret history of the 2012 campaign for a panoramic account of an election that was as hard fought as it was lastingly consequential.
Country USA
Manufacturer Penguin Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2013-11-05
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Penguin Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2013-11-05
Format	Kindle eBook

Double Down: Game Change 2012

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