Chasing Hillary
Author(s): Amy Chozick
New York Times bestseller
The Devil Wears meets The Boys on the BusNew York Times
The dishy, rollicking, and deeply personal story of what really happened in the 2016 election, as seen through the eyes of theNew York Timesreporter who gave eight years of her life to covering the First Woman President who wasn’t.
For a decade, award-winning New York Times journalist Amy Chozick chronicled Hillary Clintons pursuit of the presidency. Chozicks front-row seat, initially covering Clintons imploding 2008 campaign, and then her assignment to The Hillary Beat ahead of the 2016 election, took her to 48 states and set off a nearly ten-years-long journey in which the formative years of her twenties and thirties became both personally and professionally intrinsically intertwined to Clintons presidential ambitions.
Chozicks candor and clear-eyed perspectivefrom her seat on the Hillary bus and reporting from inside the campaigns Brooklyn headquarters, to her run-ins with Donald J. Trump and her globetrotting with Bill Clinton provide fresh intrigue and insights into the story we thought we all knew. This is the real story of what happened, with the kind of dishy, inside details that repeatedly surprise and enlighten.
But Chasing Hillary is also a rollicking, irreverent, refreshingly honest personal story of how the would-be first woman president looms over Chozicks life. And, as she gets married, attempts to infiltrate the upper echelons of political journalism and inquires about freezing her eggs so she can have children after the 2016 campaign, Chozick dives deeper into decisions Clinton made at similar points in her life.
In the process, Chozick came to see Clinton not as an unknowable enigma and political animal but as a complex person, full of contradictions and forged in the political battles and media storms that had long predated Chozicks years of coverage.
Trailing Clinton through all of the highs and lows of the most noxious and wildly dramatic presidential election in American history, Chozick comes to understand what drove Clinton, how she accomplished what no woman had before, and why she ultimately failed. Poignant, illuminating, laugh-out-loud funny, Chasing Hillary is a campaign book like never before that reads like a fast-moving political novel.
Review(s):
Chozicks own funny, wicked and wacky side is on full display, with well-drawn sketches of everyone from fresh-faced campaign interns to the candidates themselves. With her lively voice and eye for detail, Chasing Hillary is an enjoyable read, like The Devil Wears meets The Boys on the Bus.
[Chasing Hillary is] asort-of Bridget Joness Diary meets What it Takes coming-of-age rom-com set on the campaign trail, with a tragic twist at the end (spoiler alert: Clinton lost).
Perhaps we should see [the election] now as a funeral for how politics used to be done. Almost nobody, including Chozick, saw it coming. But her book captures the horrors of the journey. It is worth its price in stilettoed prose. Her future as a writer is strawberry-coloured.
The book promises to read like a rapidly paced political novel, a memoir converging with one of the most controversial and notable political figures of our time.
[Chasing Hillary] stands to do to Clinton and her campaign what Joshua GreensDevils Bargaindid to the president and Steve Bannondeliver a highly readable and essential chronicle of the election that just was and likely will always be with us.
Poignant, insightfulperceptive, pithy and surprising.
Chasing Hillary [is] so wickedly readable: like Michael Wolffs Fire and Fury, its a nonfiction novel.
Amy Chozicks memoir of covering Hillary Clinton for the New York Times gives you a first-row seat on the past two electionsand an important reality check about how we interpret news from the campaign trail. Come for the politics; stay for the anecdotes about a young journalist juggling ambition, exhaustion and, well, life. Chozick has my vote for best political memoir of the year.
[A] funny, raw and female take on the campaign memoir.
Because in stirring together the two womens striving in a long, neurotic game of hide and seek, what you arrive at is the lopsided but right-seeming conclusion thatif only Hillary Clinton were a little more like Amy Chozick, maybe shed be president right now.
ISBN:9780062413598
