Just finished the best selling book “Game Change” and I seriously recommend it. It’s a fast-paced narrative that explores the backstory and behind the scenes drama of the 2008 presidential election and it truly is an amazing read. This story is so epic and dramatic and most of all – unlikely – that the book reads like a Hollywood script. The revelations are shocking and the ride is a blast.
From the inside flap:
How did Obama convince himself that, despite the thinness of his resume, he could somehow beat the odds to become the nation’s first African American president? How did the tumultuous relationship between the Clintons shape – and warp – Hillary’s supposedly unstoppable bid? What was behind her husband’s furious outbursts and devastating political miscalculations? Why did McCain make the novice governor of Alaska his running mate? And was Palin merely painfully out of her depth – or troubled in more serious ways?
If you enjoy politics as a Shakespearean play, then you’ll love this book. Politicians are presented as rich characters with their inner demons exposed. Events that we’re already familiar with resurface as surprising and suspenseful in their fully revealed context. This is not a dry, academic quarterbacking of a political race – it’s a rip-roaring yarn that is stranger than fiction.
