The New York Timesâbestselling memoir by a journalist covering the female presidential candidate is âThe Devil Wears Prada meets The Boys on the Busâ (New York Times).
For a decade, awardâwinning New York Times journalist Amy Chozick chronicled Hillary Clintonâs pursuit of the presidency. Chozickâs front-row seat, initially covering Clintonâs imploding 2008 campaign, and then her assignment to âThe Hillary Beatâ ahead of the 2016 election, set off a nearly ten-years-long journey in which her twenties and thirties becameâboth personally and professionally â intrinsically intertwined to Clintonâs presidential ambitions.
Chozickâs clear-eyed perspectiveâfrom her seat on the Hillary bus and reporting from inside the campaignâs headquarters, to her run-ins with Donald J. Trump and her globetrotting with Bill Clintonâprovide fresh insights into the story we thought we all knew, with the kind of inside details that repeatedly surprise and enlighten.
But Chasing Hillary is also a refreshingly honest personal story of how the would-be first woman president looms over Chozickâs life. And, as she gets married, attempts to infiltrate the upper echelons of political journalism and inquires about freezing her eggs so she can have children after the 2016 campaign, Chozick dives deeper into decisions Clinton made at similar points in her life.
Trailing Clinton through all of the highs and lows of the most noxious and wildly dramatic presidential election in American history, Chozick comes to understand what drove Clinton, how she accomplished what no woman had before, and why she ultimately failed. Poignant, illuminating, laugh-out-loud funny, Chasing Hillary is a campaign book like never before.
â[A] funny, raw and female take on the campaign memoir.â âPeople
âPoignant, insightful . . . perceptive, pithy, and surprising.â âWashington Post