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"For nearly a decade, Amy Chozick chronicled Hillary Clinton's pursuit of the presidency. Chozick's front-row seat, initially at the Wall Street Journal covering Mrs. Clinton's imploding 2008 campaign, and then at the New York Times where she was assigned ""The Hillary Beat,"" set off a years-long journey in which the formative years of her twenties and thirties became, both personally and professionally, intrinsically intertwined to Clinton's presidential ambitions. As Mrs. Clinton tried, and twice failed, to shatter ""that highest hardest glass ceiling,"" Chozick was trying, with various fits and starts, to scale the highest echelons of American journalism. In a rollicking, hilarious, dishy narrative, Chozick takes us through the high- (and low-) lights of a wildly dramatic presidential race. But Chozick's unique vantage point and candor lift the veil from the story we thought we all knew. Here is the real story of what happened, with the kind of inside detail that constantly surprises and enlightens. But Chasing Hillary is also the unusually personal and moving story 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. And as Chozick gets engaged, married, buys an apartment, climbs the professional ladder, and inquires about freezing her eggs so she can have children after the 2016 campaign, she dives deeper into decisions Mrs. Clinton had made at similar points in her 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. And the social fissures in the electorate that would drive angry voters to Donald Trump and blindside Hillary Clinton, unexpectedly bring out the tensions in Chozick's own life--between the red state she came from and the blue state she ended up in, between her desire to climb in journalism as a woman, but be treated no differently than a man. Mrs. Clinton's shocking defeat would mark the end of the almost imperial hold she'd had on Chozick for most of her professional life. But the results also make Chozick question everything she'd worked so hard for in the first place. Political journalism had failed. The elite world Chozick had tried for years to fit in with had been rebuffed. The less qualified, bombastic man had triumphed, as they always seemed to do, and Mrs. Clinton had retreated to the woods in Chappaqua, N.Y. finally comfortable enough to just walk, no makeup, no pants suit, showing the real person Chozick had spent years hoping to see. Illuminating, poignant, laugh-out-loud funny, Chasing Hillary is a campaign book like never before."

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[A] funny, raw and female take on the campaign memoir. -- People A breathtaking, page-turning masterpiece that pretends to be about Hillary Clinton's defiant presidential run. But Chasing Hillary is also...a deeply personal story. -- Mary Karr, New York Times bestselling author A memoir converging with one of the most controversial and notable political figures of our time. -- Entertainment Weekly A sort-of Bridget Jones's Diary meets What it Takes coming-of-age rom-com set on the campaign trail, with a tragic twist at the end. -- New York magazine Amy Chozick sweeps us along on a ten-year chase...At the bittersweet end, she captures Hillary, and America, and the traveling press, and some part of herself. -- David Maraniss, New York Times bestselling author Chozick's own funny, wicked, and wacky side is on full display, with well-drawn sketches of everyone from fresh-faced campaign interns to the candidates themselves. With her lively voice and eye for detail, Chasing Hillary is an enjoyable read, like The Devil Wears Prada meets The Boys on the Bus. -- New York Times Manages to bring humor and a fresh inside perspective to the saddest event in history. The details alone are sure to drive Democrats to fisticuffs. -- Gary Shteyngart, New York Times bestselling author Poignant, insightful...perceptive, pithy, and surprising. -- Washington Post

Amy Chozick sweeps us along on a ten-year chase...At the bittersweet end, she captures Hillary, and America, and the traveling press, and some part of herself. -- David Maraniss, New York Times bestselling author A breathtaking, page-turning masterpiece that pretends to be about Hillary Clinton's defiant presidential run. But Chasing Hillary is also...a deeply personal story. -- Mary Karr, New York Times bestselling author Manages to bring humor and a fresh inside perspective to the saddest event in history. The details alone are sure to drive Democrats to fisticuffs. -- Gary Shteyngart, New York Times bestselling author Poignant, insightful...perceptive, pithy, and surprising. -- Washington Post Chozick's own funny, wicked, and wacky side is on full display, with well-drawn sketches of everyone from fresh-faced campaign interns to the candidates themselves. With her lively voice and eye for detail, Chasing Hillary is an enjoyable read, like The Devil Wears Prada meets The Boys on the Bus. -- New York Times A sort-of Bridget Jones's Diary meets What it Takes coming-of-age rom-com set on the campaign trail, with a tragic twist at the end. -- New York magazine A memoir converging with one of the most controversial and notable political figures of our time. -- Entertainment Weekly [A] funny, raw and female take on the campaign memoir. -- People

[A] funny, raw and female take on the campaign memoir. -- People A memoir converging with one of the most controversial and notable political figures of our time. -- Entertainment Weekly A sort-of Bridget Jones's Diary meets What it Takes coming-of-age rom-com set on the campaign trail, with a tragic twist at the end. -- New York magazine Chozick's own funny, wicked, and wacky side is on full display, with well-drawn sketches of everyone from fresh-faced campaign interns to the candidates themselves. With her lively voice and eye for detail, Chasing Hillary is an enjoyable read, like The Devil Wears Prada meets The Boys on the Bus. -- New York Times Poignant, insightful...perceptive, pithy, and surprising. -- Washington Post Manages to bring humor and a fresh inside perspective to the saddest event in history. The details alone are sure to drive Democrats to fisticuffs. -- Gary Shteyngart, New York Times bestselling author A breathtaking, page-turning masterpiece that pretends to be about Hillary Clinton's defiant presidential run. But Chasing Hillary is also...a deeply personal story. -- Mary Karr, New York Times bestselling author Amy Chozick sweeps us along on a ten-year chase...At the bittersweet end, she captures Hillary, and America, and the traveling press, and some part of herself. -- David Maraniss, New York Times bestselling author

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Amy Chozick is a writer-at-large for the New York Times. Originally from San Antonio, Texas, she lives in New York with her husband and son.

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