A review by kac1221
Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling by Amy Chozick

3.0

I have mixed feelings about this one. This is definitely not your “Yes We Can!” Obama alum memoir. (Not that I was expecting it to be, but that’s what I’ve been reading lately, so this was a bit of a shock to the system.) This book brought all the 2016 campaign anxiety back full force. Honestly, it was probably too soon. Reading Chozick’s experiences following Hillary on the campaign trail was largely a frustrating experience, yet even though I knew how it was going to end, I found the second half of the book hard to put down. The frustration isn’t all directed at Chozick, either. Mostly it’s at Hillary and her staff (at least, the author’s portrayals of them), the author for letting Hillary’s male press wranglers' BS get to her, sexist Bernie bros, and the universe at large for manifesting such a terrible election.

My favorite part of the whole thing was probably the “girls on the bus” stories. It was fun to recognize names of reporters from other networks, and just generally appreciate the fact that the first female candidate for president was covered by a mostly female press corp.