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Chasing Hillary
Amy Chozick
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Journey inside Hillary Clinton's failed presidential bid through the eyes of a New York Times reporter. Described as "The Devil Wears Prada meets The Boys on the Bus," this bestseller reveals campaign secrets that left Mary Karr calling it a "breathtaking, page-turning masterpiece."

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The View from the Back of the Plane

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A scorching Las Vegas casino, midnight shift, 2016: Hillary Clinton stands messy-haired and makeup-free, embracing Latina housekeepers who erupt in tears. "Ay, Dios mio!" they cry. "La Hillary!" This wasn't the robotic candidate America thought it knew-this was someone real, connecting with workers invisible to most politicians. But here's the thing: almost nobody saw this Hillary. For a decade, journalist Amy Chozick chased Clinton through two presidential campaigns, accumulating moments like these that never quite made it into the narrative. What she discovered wasn't just a story about politics-it was about the impossible space women occupy when they dare to want power, about the media machine that both creates and destroys political figures, and about how we all became complicit in elevating the very forces we claimed to fear.

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The Bunker Mentality

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Saint Hillary and the Crisis of Meaning

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The Pied Piper We Summoned

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The Everyday Americans Nobody Saw

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When the Basket Broke

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They Were Never Going to Let Her

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