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	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Sebastian Ritscher
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SHATTERED

Amie Parnes Jonathan Allen

Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign

The juicy inside story of Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, written by the bestselling authors of the Hillary bio HRC.

SHATTERED draws on high levels of access to Clinton’s friends, foes, staff, and factions on both sides of the aisle as well as the authors’ deep knowledge of Clinton from their previous book HRC (published by Crown in 2014). Parnes and Allen take readers into the heart of a campaign that was troubled from the start, wracked by dissension and distrust, and utterly incapable of articulating a powerful message on behalf of its candidate. Allen and Parnes reveal how Clinton herself made victory an uphill battle—how her leadership style promoted drama and infighting rather than quelling it, how her tendency to steer into voters’ worst assumptions irreparably hobbled her impact, and how the campaign failed to internalize the lessons of populist fury from the hard-fought primary against Bernie Sanders.

Taking us from the campaign’s difficult beginnings through the surreal, often confounding experience of running against Donald Trump and the bewildering terror of election night, SHATTERED tells an unforgettable story with urgent lessons both political and personal. Its revelations will forever change the way readers understand what happened in America on November 8, 2016.

Jonathan Allen is the head of content at Sidewire, a columnist at Roll Call, and an adjunct professor at Northwestern University. He is the recipient of the Dirksen and Hume Awards and has written about national politics for more than a decade, including as a former Washington bureau chief for Bloomberg News and a former White House bureau chief for POLITICO. He is a frequent guest on national television and radio programs.

Amie Parnes is the senior White House correspondent for The Hill in Washington, where she covered Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential election and is now covering the Trump administration. She has written about politics for over a decade. Prior to this assignment, she chronicled the Obama White House and the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections for POLITICO and The Hill, respectively. She appears regularly on national television programs.

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Book Published 2017-04-18 by Crown
Book Published 2017-04-18 by Crown

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SHATTERED has debuted at number 2 on the New York Times hardcover best-seller list and number 1 on the combined hardcover/e-book best-seller list. (28.4.17)

[A] compelling new book... It’s the story of a wildly dysfunctional and ‘spirit-crushing’ campaign that embraced a flawed strategy (based on flawed data) that failed, repeatedly, to correct course... The blow-by-blow details in Shattered are nothing less than devastating... In fact, the portrait of the Clinton campaign that emerges from these pages is that of aTitanic-like disaster: an epic fail made up of a series of perverse and often avoidable missteps by an out-of-touch candidate and her strife-ridden staff.

What Allen and Parnes captured in Shattered was a far more revealing portrait of the Democratic Party intelligentsia than, say, the WikiLeaks dumps. And while the book is profoundly unflattering to Hillary Clinton, the problem it describes really has nothing to do with Secretary Clinton. The real protagonist of this book is a Washington political establishment that has lost the ability to explain itself or its motives to people outside the Beltway... If the ending to this story were anything other than Donald Trump being elected president,Shattered would be an awesome comedy, like a Kafka novel—a lunatic bureaucracy devouring itself. But since the ending is the opposite of funny, it will likely be consumed as a cautionary tale.

[Shattered] sheds particular light on the painful turn of events on election night, as Clinton watched the returns deviate dramatically from the path her campaign had so confidently predicted… As the first take on Clinton’s doomed campaign, [Allen and Parnes] offer a behind-the-scenes view of the obstacles in her way—some familiar and others a consequence of the shifting American electorate.

How did she lose? Providing that answer is the mission accepted by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes in Shattered… They saw and heard far more than most of us, exploring deep inside ‘Clintonworld’ in search of the real story. And in these pages, they share enough of what they witnessed to enable us to reach our own conclusions… Allen and Parnes offer a first bridge beyond the journalism of the campaign year to the scholarship of the historians and other scholars who will process all this material for generations to come.

In the last weeks before the election, the Hillary Clinton campaign did no polling… This is one of the thousand revelations in Shattered, the new book by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes that, for political junkies, redefines the word ‘juicy’ for our time… Allen and Parnes pile up headshaking detail after headshaking detail from the very beginning of her campaign to its end.

A riveting account of the final, dreadful hours of Clinton’s long pursuit of the presidency… Thanks to Allen and Parnes, we now know how Clinton reacted, at the moment she was supposed to become the first female president.

Hillary Clinton’s loss at the hands of Donald Trump last November is the single biggest upset in modern presidential politics. I’ve spent the intervening months trying to understand what Clinton’s defeat said about the electorate, about Clinton and about the campaign she ran. Now, there’s a book that does all of that for me!

Told largely through background interviews with campaign staff and a tangle [of] Clinton insiders, the book is a comprehensive chronicle of how her quest for the White House lurched and sputtered toward ignominious defeat… [Shattered is] richly reported.

Dutch rights: Kosmos

Just like Game Change and Double Down,Shattered comes filled with plenty of juicy behind-the-scenes stories about the 2016 election… Compiled from anonymous interviews with more than 100 sources 'up and down the ranks of the campaign,'Shattered provides a detailed timeline of how a 'winnable race' was lost.

SHATTERED is currently the number one best-selling book on Amazon.com! (April 19, 2017)