Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime

John Heilemann · Mark Halperin

Feb 2010 · Harper Collins

About this ebook

The gripping inside story of the 2008 presidential election, by two of the best political reporters in the country.

“It’s one of the best books on politics of any kind I’ve read. For entertainment value, I put it up there with Catch 22.” —The Financial Times

“It transports you to a parallel universe in which everything in the National Enquirer is true….More interesting is what we learn about the candidates themselves: their frailties, egos and almost super-human stamina.” —The Financial Times

“I can’t put down this book!” —Stephen Colbert

Game Change is the New York Times bestselling story of the 2008 presidential election, by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, two of the best political reporters in the country. In the spirit of Richard Ben Cramer’s What It Takes and Theodore H. White’s The Making of the President 1960, this classic campaign trail book tells the defining story of a new era in American politics, going deeper behind the scenes of the Obama/Biden and McCain/Palin campaigns than any other account of the historic 2008 election.

Ratings and reviews

This book was far more comprehensive and satisfying than the liberal leaning HBO movie. Game Change gives the readers what seems to be a narrative of the '08 presidential campaigns from numerous interviews with reporters and insiders. The is told that the sources for the book are withheld to protect the interviewees and allow for a more candid look inside the campaigns. My only fault with the book would because there appears to be some bias for the Obama camp versus the McCain or even Clinton camps.

If you watched the election of 2008 and and paid attention to it as I did you'll enjoy it. I wanted more details about Palin but they spent too much time on Obama and Hillary and less on Palin and McCain. Nontherless decent book.

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About the author

John Heilemann is the national political correspondent and columnist for New York magazine. He is a former staff writer for the New Yorker, the Economist, and Wired. He is the author of Pride Before the Fall: The Trials of Bill Gates and the End of the Microsoft Era, Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime and Double Down: Game Change 2012. Mark Halperin is editor-at-large and senior political analyst for Time magazine. He's a former political director for ABC News. He is the author of The Undecided Voter's Guide to the Next President, The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008, Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime and Double Down: Game Change 2012.