Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign
by Jonathan Allen
View on GoodreadsAllen and Parnes's earlier book — their 2017 inside account of the Clinton 2016 campaign, built on hundreds of confidential interviews that surfaced after the loss when sources were finally willing to talk.
Core ideas
- The internal dysfunction is the book's spine — Mook vs. Podesta vs. Abedin vs. Sullivan, the analytics-vs.-intuition tension, the bewildered response to the Comey letter and the Wisconsin/Michigan/Pennsylvania collapse.
- The book's portrait is harder on Clinton herself than her own memoir is — the candidate-as-impatient-with-staff, the strategic indecision about her own message, the campaign's failure to find a positive case for her presidency.
- Read in 2025, paired with Fight on 2024, the book reads as one half of the Allen-Parnes Democratic-campaign-failure duology — same authors, two cycles, recurring patterns.
Published2017
Pages558
ISBN9780553447095
ReadMay 2025
