Author:John Heilemann,Mark Halperin
‘What am I supposed to do when he starts spewing his bullshit?’ Barack Obama preparing for his first debate with Mitt Romney
In their runaway bestseller Game Change / Race of a Lifetime, Mark Halperin and John Heilemann captured the full drama of Barack Obama’s improbable, dazzling victory over the Clintons, John McCain and Sarah Palin. With the same masterly reporting, unparalleled access, and narrative skill, Double Down picks up the story in the Oval Office, where the president is beset by crises both inherited and unforeseen – facing defiance from his political foes, disenchantment from voters, disdain from the nation’s powerful finance figures and dysfunction within the West Wing. As 2012 looms, leaders of the Republican Party, salivating over Obama’s political fragility, see a chance to wrestle back control of the White House – and the country.
So how did the Republicans screw it up? How did Obama survive the onslaught and defy the predictions of a one-term presidency? Double Down follows the gaudy carnival of Republican contenders – ambitious and flawed, famous and infamous, charismatic and cartoonish – as Mitt Romney, the straitlaced, can-do, gaffe-prone multimillionaire from Massachusetts, scraped and scratched his way to the nomination, while Obama is seen storming out of a White House meeting with his high command after accusing them of betrayal, and gradually transforming a tense détente with Bill Clinton into political gold.
Double Down takes you into back rooms and closed-door meetings, laying bare the secret history of the 2012 campaign in a panoramic account of an election that was as hard fought as it was lastingly consequential.
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—— Daily MailCompelling
—— The ObserverAn energetic and entertaining account of the knives-out behind-the-scenes living during the world’s most hard-fought election
—— The Irish TimesFull of page turning details … translates insider politics for mass-market readers
—— Washington PostThe authors ability to get inside the campaigns and dramatise them make the book essential reading for those addicted to US politics
—— Financial TimesVigorous … gripping
—— New StatesmanThe book testifies to its authors’ energetic legwork and insider access ... creating a novelistic narrative that provides a you-are-there immediacy
—— The New York TimesA razor-sharp critique of the absurd expectations that, these days, have come to stand for ambition, "All We Ever Wanted Was Everything" is wrenching, riveting, and still manages to be great fun. This is a wise, intimate chronicle of one family's struggle to take off their masks and live in the place they most feared: the real, imperfect world
—— Meghan Daum, author of 'The Quality of Life Report'Rarely does a first novelist write with such confidence and grace. 'All We Ever Wanted Was Everything' is a marvelous book
—— Ayelet Waldman, author of "Love and Other Impossible PursuitsHill's taut prose exudes a constant darkness... you are left unsettled and haunted by the seeming inevitability of their troubled lives
—— StylistTaut, tense story, written with that unsparing economy which is such a feature of Hill's recent fiction
—— Matthew Dennison , The TimesThe versatile Hill tells a perfectly judged story of people living hard, narrow lives
—— ObserverSo well-written, so deeply imagined, that the reader will find delight even in the encircling gloom. Love may not conquer all, but Art can
—— Scotsman[Hill] does what all good writers must set out to do: she made me read until I had the answer
—— M J Hyland , GuardianHill’s sparse style provides the perfect medium for exploring this family’s predicament
—— Matthew Dennison , The TImesHill does a wonderful job of evoking life in this enclosed community
—— Emma Hagestadt , IndependentA masterpiece of economy and control
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