Penguin Press
November 2013
On Sale: November 5, 2013
512 pages ISBN: 1594204403 EAN: 9781594204401 Kindle: B00C5R7EE6 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
From the authors of the number one New York Times
bestseller Game Change, an explosive account of the
2012 presidential election, pulling back the curtain to
reveal the exhilarating, newsbreaking story behind the
headlines for the first time
John Heilemann and
Mark Halperin set the national conversation on fire with
their bestselling account of the 2008 presidential election,
Game Change. In Double Down, they apply their
unparalleled access and storytelling savvy to the 2012
election, rendering an equally 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.
Drawing on
hundreds of interviews with the people who lived the story,
Heilemann and Halperin deliver another reportorial tour de
force that reads like a fast-paced novel. Character driven
and dialogue rich, replete with extravagantly detailed
scenes, Double Down offers 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
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