Chasing Hillary

For nearly a decade, award-winning New York Times journalist Amy Chozick chronicled Hillary Clinton’ s pursuit of the presidency. Chozick’ s assignments, covering Clinton’ s imploding 2008 campaign and then her front-row seat to the 2016 election on the “ Hillary Beat, ” set off a years-long journey in which the author’ s formative years became intrinsically intertwined with Clinton’ s presidential ambitions.
In this rollicking, hilarious narrative, Chozick takes us through the high- (and low-) lights of the most noxious and dramatic presidential race in American history. Chozick’ s candor and clear-eyed perspective— from her seat on the Hillary bus and reporting from inside the campaign’ s Brooklyn headquarters to her run-ins with Donald J. Trump— provide fresh intrigue and insights into the story we all thought we knew.
But Chasing Hillary is also the moving memoir of how Chozick came to understand Clinton not as an unknowable enigma and political animal, but as a complete, complex person full of contradictions and forged in the crucible of political battles that had long predated Chozick’ s years covering her. As Chozick gets engaged, married, and climbs the professional ladder, she dives deeper into decisions Clinton had made at similar points in her own early career. In the process, Chozick develops an intimate understanding of what drives Clinton, how she accomplished what no woman had before, and why she ultimately failed.