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"That was the single most illustrative moment of what this campaign was, one aide says. Heres something Donald Trump did and said and was arguably disqualifying to a lot of voters something that could put the race away but within moments, a factor related to emails comes around and puts a thumb on the other side of the scale."
http://time.com/4747256/hillary-clinton-shattered-book/
My library includes a large section of books by and about U.S. Presidents. Among them are numerous books that focus exclusively on the campaigns in primary and general elections. I will not, however, place any books about Donald Trump at least not until any come out regarding his impeachment.
While I recognize that he is the president, he is in no way my president. Everything associated with his approaching 100 days mark confirms that he is grossly unqualified for the duties of that office. His campaign was definitely aided by Russia, creating divisions in the US that allowed his campaign to exploit weaknesses within the Democratic Party.
The fact that these weaknesses allowed the least qualified candidate in American history to win in the electoral college is reason enough for people to make an honest assessment of what went wrong. To do so, we must move beyond the bitter emotions that serve to entrench those divides within what in 2008 and 2012 was known as the Obama coalition.
The new book, by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, looks like a valuable resource for understanding and accepting what went wrong in 2016. It appears to be similar to John Heilemann and Mark Halperin's 2010 Game Change. The authors of the new book used conversations with approximately one hundred people, most of whom were insiders in the Democratic Party's campaign. I ordered a copy of their book yesterday.
I'm curious if other forum members are reading, or have read, the book?