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It was never intended to come down to this. And, of course, she was meant to come out on top. The gripping narrative of how Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump is the story of a sure thing gone wrong. No explanation of Hillary's defeat can begin with anything other than the core problem of her campaign—the candidate herself, for every Comey revelation or hindsight acknowledgment about the electorate.

Political writers Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes have reconstructed the key decisions and unseized opportunities, the well-intentioned misfires, and the hidden thorns that turned a winnable contest into a devastating loss, thanks to extensive access to insiders from the top to the bottom of the campaign. Shattered draws on the authors' extensive knowledge of Hillary from their previous book, the acclaimed biography HRC, to show how Hillary made victory an uphill battle for herself, how her inability to articulate a vision hampered her impact with voters irreparably, and how the campaign failed to internalize the lessons of populist fury from the hard-fought primary against Bernie Sanders.

Shattered tells an unforgettable story with urgent political and personal lessons, filled with revelations that will change the way readers understand what happened to America on November 8, 2016. It moves from the campaign's difficult start to the bewildering terror of election night.