“Game Change”

What if Elizabeth Edwards was not the forgiving saint we thought she was? What if Sarah Palin’s vice presidential candidacy was the result of a simple computer search? In “Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime,” authors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann get down and dirty with political figures, exposing juicy details about President Obama, his wife, and the Clintons. Booklist says that “some of what this volume delivers is totally behind-the-scenes and genuinely jaw-dropping.” At the core of the book is the fact that campaigns and elections drive politicians to extreme lunacy. The New York Times calls it “a fascinating account” that “leaves the reader with a vivid, visceral sense of the campaign and a keen understanding of the paradoxes and contingencies of history.” And Entertainment Weekly describes it as “a must-read for anyone interested in the cutthroat backroom hows and whys of a presidential campaign.”