"This shit would be really interesting if we weren't in the middle of it." —Barack Obama, September 2008
In 2008, the presidential election became blockbuster entertainment.
Everyone was watching as the race for the White House unfolded like
something from the realm of fiction. The meteoric rise and historic
triumph of Barack Obama. The shocking fall of the House of Clinton—and
the improbable resurrection of Hillary as Obama's partner and America's
face to the world. The mercurial performance of John McCain and the
mesmerizing emergence of Sarah Palin.
Based on hundreds of interviews with the people who lived the story, Game Change
is a reportorial tour de force that reads like a fast-paced novel.
Character driven and dialogue rich, replete with extravagantly detailed
scenes, this is the occasionally shocking, often hilarious, ultimately
definitive account of the campaign of a lifetime.
About the Author
John Heilemann, national political correspondent and columnist for New York, is an award-winning journalist and the author of Pride Before the Fall: The Trials of Bill Gates and the End of the Microsoft Era.
