Game Change, John Heilemann
Game Change, John Heilemann
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Game Change
Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime

Author: John Heilemann, Mark Halperin

Narrator: Dennis Boutsikaris

Unabridged: 14 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 01/11/2010


Synopsis

“It’s one of the best books on politics of any kind I’ve read. For entertainment value, I put it up there with Catch 22.” —The Financial Times “It transports you to a parallel universe in which everything in the National Enquirer is true….More interesting is what we learn about the candidates themselves: their frailties, egos and almost super-human stamina.” —The Financial Times “I can’t put down this book!” —Stephen Colbert Game Change is the New York Times bestselling story of the 2008 presidential election, by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, two of the best political reporters in the country. In the spirit of Richard Ben Cramer’s What It Takes and Theodore H. White’s The Making of the President 1960, this classic campaign trail book tells the defining story of a new era in American politics, going deeper behind the scenes of the Obama/Biden and McCain/Palin campaigns than any other account of the historic 2008 election.

About John Heilemann

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.

About Mark Halperin

Mark Halperin is editor-at-large and senior political analyst for Time. He is also senior political analyst for MSNBC, the author of The Undecided Voter’s Guide to the Next President, and the co-author of The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008.

About Dennis Boutsikaris

Dennis Boutsikaris received an Obie Award for his performance in Sight Unseen and was Mozart in Amadeus on Broadway. His films include *batteries not included, The Dream Team, and Boys On The Side. His TV work includes And Then There Was One, The Last Don and Chasing The Dragon; he was most recently the D.A. of NY in Sidney Lumet's 100 Centre Street.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ben

So here's the thing with this book: I wish somebody else had written it. The research was impeccable, the stories compelling. There was no discernible bias. I'm a bit of a politics junkie, and followed the campaign in considerable depth as it happened, and there was plenty I didn't already know cramm......more

Goodreads review by Ben

I enjoyed the original "Game Change," but it's hard to take this one seriously when a Vice Presidential candidate is referred to, almost exclusively, as "Fishconsin." Or when Barack and Michelle share an emotional moment and they're referred to as "FLOTUS and POTUS." Former presidents Clinton and Bu......more

“It was Bill Clinton who once pithily captured the contrast between the two parties when it came to selecting a presidential standard-bearer: "Democrats want to fall in love; Republicans just fall in line.” ― Mark Halperin, Double Down: Game Change 2012 I enjoyed this book greatly although I think th......more