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Double down : game change 2012 / Mark Halperin and John Heilemann.

by Halperin, Mark.

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Penguin Press, 2013.

Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 2012.

Presidential candidates -- United States.

9781594204401 (hc.)

1594204403 (hc.)

499 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Includes index.

"John Heilemann and Mark Halperin apply their unparalleled access and storytelling savvy to the 2012 election, rendering a compelling narrative about the circuslike Republican nomination fight, the rise and fall of Mitt Romney, and the trials, tribulations, and Election Day triumph of Barack Obama. A panoramic account of a campaign at once intensely hard fought and lastingly consequential. For Obama, the victory he achieved meant even more to him than the one he had pulled off four years earlier. In 2008, he believed, voters had bet on a hope; in 2012, they passed positive judgment on what he’d actually done, allowing him to avert a loss that would have rendered his presidency a failed, one-term accident. For the Republicans, on the other hand, 2012 not only offered a crushing verdict but an existential challenge: to rethink and reconstitute the party or face irrelevance--or even extinction. Double Down is the occasionally shocking, often hilarious, ultimately definitive account of an election of singular importance. Mark Halperin is a senior political analyst for Time magazine. John Heilemann is the national affairs editor for New York magazine."--Provided by publisher.

Heilemann, John, 1966-

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