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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: Amy Chozick believed she’d scored her dream career beat covering Hillary Clinton.
Chapter 2: Chozick’s reporting irked Clinton’s press team, straining their working relationship badly.
Chapter 3: Clinton’s reliance on a private email server for official state communications became an obsession for the press nationwide.
Chapter 4: Hillary Clinton has a playful, goofy side, but the campaign largely suppressed it over time.
Chapter 5: Hillary Clinton’s campaign met stronger-than-expected competition from Bernie Sanders’s rousing speeches on tour.
Chapter 6: Hillary Clinton handled the press so poorly she even torpedoed a few favorable news stories herself.
Chapter 7: Clinton is profoundly religious, yet this strength was scarcely highlighted by the press at all.
Chapter 8: Hillary Clinton’s finest traits as a candidate emerged only when she confronted her first truly serious challenge head-on.
Chapter 9: Clinton was likely the stronger debater than Trump, but she unwisely allowed him to distract her repeatedly.
Chapter 10: Hillary’s defeat was disheartening but also sparked a meaningful shift in perspective afterward.
Description
Chasing Hillary (2018) details journalist Amy Chozick’s deeply personal experience at the New York Times reporting on Hillary Clinton. The book follows not just Clinton’s campaign during the 2016 US presidential election but also her battle with Senator Bernie Sanders in the Democratic Party primaries. It delves deep into the Clinton psyche, looking back to the times before she even considered running for high office.
Who Should Listen
- Journalists
- People fascinated by US politics
- Anyone wondering just how Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump