Race of a Lifetime: How Obama Won the White House – Mark Halperin & John Heilemann

Characters, culture, campaign and communication this is a thrilling intimate portrait of the candidates and their spouses painted by ‘Dream Team’ authors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann as they sweep us along on the Race of a Lifetime: How Obama Won the White House

Forget everything you think you know about the making of the most powerful man on the planet. President Barack Obama’s triumph was not inevitable: it was the end product of a brilliant, calculated, convention-defying political campaign. In a race that will be talked about for years to come, he faced down his rivals with ruthless focus and efficiency.

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Race of a Lifetime: How Obama Won the White House is the gripping inside story of those thrilling months: from the meteoric rise of Obama and the collapsing House of Clinton to the erratic John McCain and the bewildering Sarah Palin.

Brimming with exclusive revelations, this compulsively readable book lays bare the characters of the candidates, warts and all; exposes the inner workings of their operations; and charts the true path to the White House. It’s a tour de force: the sometimes shocking, often funny, and ultimately definitive account of the campaign of a lifetime.

Links and Further Reading

• New York Times on Line Review
• The English Perspective – Read Telegraph Review

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