Chasing Hillary, Amy Chozick
Chasing Hillary, Amy Chozick
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Chasing Hillary
Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling

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Author: Amy Chozick

Narrator: Amy Chozick

Unabridged: 12 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 04/24/2018


Synopsis

For nearly a decade, Amy Chozick chronicled Hillary Clinton’s pursuit of the presidency. Chozick’s front-row seat, initially at the Wall Street Journal covering Mrs. Clinton’s imploding 2008 campaign, and then at the New York Times where she was assigned “The Hillary Beat”, set off a years-long journey in which the formative years of her twenties and thirties became, both personally and professionally, intrinsically intertwined to Clinton’s presidential ambitions. As Mrs. Clinton tried, and twice failed, to shatter “that highest hardest glass ceiling,” Chozick was trying, with various fits and starts, to scale the highest echelons of American journalism. In a rollicking, hilarious, dishy narrative, Chozick takes us through the high- (and low-) lights of a wildly dramatic presidential race. But Chozick’s unique vantage point and candor lift the veil from the story we thought we all knew. Here is the real story of what happened, with the kind of inside detail that constantly surprises and enlightens. But Chasing Hillary is also the unusually personal and moving story of how Chozick came to understand Clinton not as an unknowable enigma and political animal, but as a complete, complex, person, full of contradictions and forged in the crucible of political battles that had long predated Chozick’s years covering her. And as Chozick gets engaged, married, buys an apartment, climbs the professional ladder, and inquires about freezing her eggs so she can have children after the 2016 campaign, she dives deeper into decisions Mrs. Clinton had made at similar points in her early career. In the process, Chozick develops an intimate understanding of what drives Clinton, how she accomplished what no woman had before, and why she ultimately failed. And the social fissures in the electorate that would drive angry voters to Donald Trump and blindside Hillary Clinton, unexpectedly bring out the tensions in Chozick’s own life—between the red state she came from and the blue state she ended up in, between her desire to climb in journalism as a woman, but be treated no differently than a man.  Mrs. Clinton's shocking defeat would mark the end of the almost imperial hold she'd had on Chozick for most of her professional life. But the results also make Chozick question everything she’d worked so hard for in the first place. Political journalism had failed. The elite world Chozick had tried for years to fit in with had been rebuffed. The less qualified, bombastic man had triumphed, as they always seemed to do, and Mrs. Clinton had retreated to the woods in Chappaqua, N.Y. finally comfortable enough to just walk, no makeup, no pants suit, showing the real person Chozick had spent years hoping to see. Illuminating, poignant, laugh-out-loud funny, Chasing Hillary is a campaign book like never before.

About Amy Chozick

Amy Chozick is a writer-at-large for the New York Times. Originally from San Antonio, Texas, she lives in New York with her husband and son.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sharon on March 21, 2024

I listened to Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling on audiobook and it's narrated by the author, Amy Chozick, a New York Times reporter. Chozick covers Hillary's 2008 and 2016 Presidential campaigns. Chozick has a front row seat to Hillary and her famil......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on September 15, 2018

Hesitant to pick up Hillary Clinton's book, What Happened, I got this from the library instead. I was worried that there were aspects of Clinton that she herself wasn't aware of that played a key role in the election and I wanted something more at a remove and critical, but reasonable. This fit that......more

Goodreads review by Laura on May 11, 2018

The blurb on the front cover is some definite hyperbole as this book is not a page-turner, much less a masterpiece. Chozick wants readers to pity her as she subsumes her life to the relentless schedule that is a presidential campaign. However, this is supposedly her dream job - so why so much whinin......more

Goodreads review by Miri on July 15, 2018

Very mixed feelings. Giving it two stars for the interest factor, but writing this review made me angry enough at the book that I almost want to go down to one. Interesting though this inherently was, it became more and more frustrating as the book went on, and by the end I was pretty sick of Amy Ch......more

Goodreads review by KOMET on May 05, 2018

"CHASING HILLARY: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling" is the fourth book on U.S. presidential campaigns that I have read. The other three being "The Making of the President, 1960", "The Road to Camelot: Inside JFK's Five-Year Campaign", and "The Last Campaign: Robert......more