{"product_id":"game-change-obama-and-the-clintons-mccain-and-palin-and-the-race-of-a-lifetime-isbn-9780061945991","title":"Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime","description":"\u003cp\u003e“It’s one of the best books on politics of any kind I’ve read. For entertainment value, I put it up there with \u003cem\u003eCatch 22\u003c\/em\u003e.” —\u003cem\u003eThe Financial Times\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It transports you to a parallel universe in which everything in the \u003cem\u003eNational Enquirer\u003c\/em\u003e is true….More interesting is what we learn about the candidates themselves: their frailties, egos and almost super-human stamina.” —\u003cem\u003eThe Financial Times\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I can’t put down this book!” —Stephen Colbert\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGame Change \u003c\/em\u003eis the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003ebestselling story of the 2008 presidential election, by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, two of the best political reporters in the country. In the spirit of Richard Ben Cramer’s \u003cem\u003eWhat It Takes\u003c\/em\u003e and Theodore H. White’s \u003cem\u003eThe Making of the President 1960\u003c\/em\u003e, this classic campaign trail book tells the defining story of a new era in American politics, going deeper behind the scenes of the Obama\/Biden and McCain\/Palin campaigns than any other account of the historic 2008 election.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eGame Change\u003c\/em\u003e, John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, two of the country’s leading political reporters, use their unrivaled access to pull back the curtain on the Obama, Clinton, McCain, and Palin campaigns.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on hundreds of interviews with the people who lived the story, \u003cem\u003eGame Change\u003c\/em\u003e is a reportorial tour de force that reads like a fast-paced novel. Character-driven and dialogue-rich, replete with extravagantly detailed scenes, it’s an intimate portrait of some of the most powerful and fascinating figures in American life—the occasionally shocking, often hilarious, ultimately definitive account of the campaign of a lifetime.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Everybody talked. Anybody that tells you they didn’t is lying to you.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA former top Clinton aide, to Politico’s Ben Smith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Riveting, definitive. . . . A great campaign book. . . . Halperin and Heilemann got insiders to cough up astonishing artifacts, including emails and recordings. . . . \u003ci\u003eGame Change\u003c\/i\u003e is really interesting, and puts you deep in the middle of it.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKurt Andersen, Very Short List\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Heilemann and Halperin have conducted hundreds of interviews to provide the inside story of the 2008 campaign. . . . It vividly shows how character flaws large and small caused Obama’s opponents to self-destruct.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJacob Heilbrunn, The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A fascinating account. . . . Heilemann and Halperin serve up a spicy smorgasbord of observations, revelations, and allegations. . . . The authors mix savvy political analysis in these pages with detailed reconstructions of scenes and conversations. . . . \u003ci\u003eGame Change\u003c\/i\u003e leaves the reader with a vivid, visceral sense of the campaign and a keen understanding of the paradoxes and contingencies of history.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichiko Kakutani, The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A fascinating account. . . . Heilemann and Halperin serve up a spicy smorgasbord of observations, revelations, and allegations. . . . \u003ci\u003eGame Change\u003c\/i\u003e leaves the reader with a vivid, visceral sense of the campaign and a keen understanding of the paradoxes and contingencies of history.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichiko Kakutani, The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I can’t put down this book!” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephen Colbert\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A thoroughly researched, well-paced and occasionally very amusing read. . . . The result is something that conveys the feel, or perhaps more accurately the smell, of one of recent history’s most thrilling elections, and it does so better than any of the other books already on the market.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The authors of \u003ci\u003eGame Change\u003c\/i\u003e succeed in creating a plausible account of the emotional tumult of the 2008 campaign as it might have been—perhaps even was—experienced by the candidates, their spouses, and their staffs.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An amazing piece of work. . . . It’s one of the best books on politics of any kind I’ve read. For entertainment value, I put it up there with \u003ci\u003eCatch 22\u003c\/i\u003e. . . . It is an absolutely gripping read, because on top of everything else, they can write.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eClive Crook, The Financial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An amazing piece of work. . . . One of the best books on politics of any kind I’ve read. For entertainment value, I put it up there with \u003ci\u003eCatch 22\u003c\/i\u003e. . . . An absolutely gripping read . . .  they can write.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eClive Crook, The Financial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Riveting. . . . Its pages brim with scandalous tidbits. . . . This is a must-read for anyone interested in the cutthroat backroom hows and whys of a presidential campaign. . . . And it doesn’t hurt that \u003ci\u003eGame Change\u003c\/i\u003e reads more bodice-ripper than Beltway.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTina Jordan, Entertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A smoking new book. . . . 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