Game of Thorns: The Inside Story of Hillary Clinton's Failed Campaign and Donald Trump's Winning Strategy

by Doug Wead

Overview

Here is the first, insider, account of the precipitous fall of Hillary Clinton. How the scandals of a lifetime finally reached critical mass. How, in the last few days of the campaign, some on her staff saw the ghostly shroud of defeat creeping over them but were helpless to act, frozen by the self-denial of the group.

Here is an explanation of why the national media and their corporate owners kept Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren out of the race. Why they wanted their investment in the Clinton's to work and how they were willing to go to great lengths to make that happen.

Don't have time to read the thousands of leaked emails from inside the Clinton machine?

The author has done it for you and has come back from the experience with a stunning peek into the world of a political leader who privately declared that she wanted a hemisphere "with open trade and open borders."

Finally, here is the story of the rise of Donald Trump.

How his opponents sought to derail him.

This is the story of how Donald Trump's message and brand transcended the traps laid by his enemies. How, against all odds, he won the presidency. And here are the details of his plan to make American great again.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781478993070
Publisher:	Center Street
Publication date:	02/28/2017
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

DOUG WEAD is one of the few living historians to have written about all of the American presidents. From Washington to Obama, he is an expert on presidential families. His book, All the President Children, which covered the presidents and their families, was a New York Times bestseller.
Wead has been an employee of ten presidential campaigns. He began as a writer for Ronald Reagan in 1979. In 1989 George H.W. Bush brought him on to senior staff at the White House as special assistant to the president and, most recently, he served as a senior adviser to Senator Rand Paul.
He is a regular TV commentator on everything First Family related and he's been a guest throughout the election process on Fox News, MSNBC and CNN and a commentator during the national conventions. He has been on The Today Show ten times. He's been interviewed by Matt Lauer, Lester Holt, Norah O'Donnell, and Andrea Mitchell. All the major journalists on CBS have featured him in televised segments from Dan Rather to Katie Couric to Charlie Rose. He has been interviewed by Diane Sawyer of ABC and the late, British news icon, David Frost.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Trade Edition ix

Introduction: An Alternate Universe 1

Part I Election-Night Surprise

Chapter 1 The Clintons' War with the FBI 11

Chapter 2 The Lost Voters of Elections Past 35

Chapter 3 Forgotten No Longer 50

Part II The Collapse of the House of Clinton

Chapter 4 Why Another Clinton Presidency? 71

Chapter 5 An Early Clinton Scandal Primer 82

Chapter 6 The Fu Lin Chinese Restaurant 104

Chapter 7 The Other Women 119

Chapter 8 Monica Lewinsky and Impeachment 140

Chapter 9 The Selling of the White House 150

Part III The Rise Of The House Of Trump

Chapter 10 Donald Trump, Out of the Shadows 165

Chapter 11 Saving New York City 178

Chapter 12 Trump and the Crowded Field 201

Chapter 13 An Unlikely Nominee 222

Chapter 14 It's a Trump World 242

Part IV Clash Of The Titans

Chapter 15 The Comeback of Hillary Clinton 261

Chapter 16 Crooked Hillary 276

Chapter 17 An October Surprise for Trump 290

Chapter 18 Hillary the Enabler 308

Chapter 19 The Next White House? 324

Chapter 20 Landing the Plane 349

Chapter 21 I Almost Never Lose 370

Endnotes 379

Acknowledgments 405

Editorial Reviews

"Read this compelling book to find out why she lost and he won-an outcome that will prove to be best for our nation."—Gary J. Byrne, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Crisis of Character

"A great book... GAME OF THORNS gets you behind the scenes...I mean REALLY behind the scenes. Doug is respected by everybody...so he has access to everybody....It's going to be a best seller. I don't care if you're left or right on this... it's an amazing tick-tock of what went wrong and it is from a presidential historian — not some cockamamie person."—Neil Cavuto, Cavuto Coast to Coast

"GAME OF THORNS is a fascinating study of 2016 US presidential elections. Wead busts all myths created and supported by what has come to be known as fake news. Wead convincingly shows that President Trump won the elections because of a superior strategy in spite of all odds in favor of Hillary Clinton. GAME OF THORNS is a deeply researched book and provides deep insight into the election strategies of both President Trump and Hillary Clinton, as well as the American election system. GAME OF THORNS is the best book on the 2016 presidential elections and is likely to remain so in the future. It is a must read to understand American politics."—The Washington Book Review

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