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

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

Hillary Clinton dominated Amy Chozick’s life for more than a decade. Here, she tells the inside story of Clinton’s pursuit of the US presidency in a campaign book like no other.‘A breathtaking, page-turning masterpiece’ Mary KarrA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAmy Chozick’s assignments, covering Clinton’s imploding 2008 campaign and then her front-row seat to the 2016 election on ‘The Hillary Beat,’ set off a years-long journey in which the formative years of Chozick’s life became, both personally and professionally, intrinsically intertwined with Clinton’s presidential ambitions. As 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 this rollicking, hilarious narrative, Chozick takes us through the high- and low-lights of the most noxious and dramatic presidential election in history. Chozick’s candour and clear-eyed perspective – from her seat on the Hillary bus and reporting from inside the campaign’s headquarters to her run-ins with Donald J. Trump – provide fresh intrigue and insights into the story we think we all know.But Chasing Hillary is also the unusually personal and moving memoir of how Chozick came to understand Clinton not as a political animal, but as a complete, complex person, full of contradictions and forged in the crucible of many earlier battles. 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.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 seem to do), and Clinton had retreated to the woods, finally showing the real person Chozick had spent years hoping to see. Illuminating, poignant, laugh-out-loud funny, Chasing Hillary is a campaign book unlike any other that reads like a fast-moving political novel.

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Dedication (#ulink_6c611e6c-77d3-5369-ab90-db0bbd3d0fd9)

For Bobby

Epigraph (#ulink_fb7fb665-9247-5efe-bbf2-09232a593008)

I know of no American who starts from a higher level of aspiration than the journalist. He is, in his first phase, genuinely romantic. He plans to be both an artist and a moralist—a master of lovely words and a merchant of sound ideas. He ends, commonly, as the most depressing jackass in his community—that is, if his career goes on to what is called success. He becomes the repository of all its worst delusions and superstitions. He becomes the darling of all its frauds and idiots, and the despair of all its honest men.

—H. L. MENCKENM

I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession, which I entered before my husband was in public life.

—HILLARY CLINTON, 1992

Contents

Cover (#u0d24a59f-9a41-56fa-93c9-c6b5f583649f)

Title Page (#ud963cf6f-d839-5f1e-b18d-1a103ec89e36)

Copyright (#ucb657d2c-a680-5b65-a6f2-1827094db458)

Dedication (#u874d6d23-0c11-5a2c-9c92-8dba116d1eab)

Epigraph (#uaa71b07a-016c-5c64-a845-b9b14c5c1027)

Author’s Note (#ue7ceb862-89a8-598a-b16c-b5026617e135)

1: Happy Hillary (#u4ccd13f0-f490-55f4-964c-7e9f15fe2724)

2: Jill Wants to See You (#ud8c501c8-50e0-5ed7-8e13-73b5de0939dc)

3: “The World’s Saddest Word” (#u2148a8a1-a61a-5312-a789-333e2ddd563f)

4: Bill Clinton Kaligani (#u48ffa91b-d1bc-509b-b0c9-d4a708208e17)

5: Roving (#u807b5b08-8bec-520c-aba9-9ef307b6a65d)

6: The Foreign Desk (#uffcf3e3d-be57-572b-8f0a-160466206b97)

7: “Scoops of Ideas” (#u32db66cf-83aa-539d-9f99-a71748316a7b)

8: “Taking Back America” (#u4eb8ff87-9219-549f-9a84-859f798c5652)

9: Leave Hillary Alone (#u391d6dc7-21db-5349-9171-87e0dc5c6680)

10: “Iowa … I’m Baaack” (#uac6e9eaf-f942-58ea-8e4e-95bf56ff7101)

11: The Last Good Day (#uf1449042-70d7-586e-8419-76c49d7d0962)

12: Emailghazi (#ucba32667-5076-58e6-91a8-0c80ed121309)

13: “What Makes You So Special?” (#litres_trial_promo)

14: The Everydays (#litres_trial_promo)

15: “Fucking Democrats” (#litres_trial_promo)

16: The Ninnies (#litres_trial_promo)

17: A Tale of Two Choppers (#litres_trial_promo)

18: Sorry, Not Sorry (#litres_trial_promo)