This story was originally published on nationaljournal.com on May 5, 2017 Finishing Amie Parnes and Jonathan Allen’s engrossing book, Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign, listening to Clinton offering her perspective on why she lost to CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, and watching FBI Director James Comey testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the same week leaves a decidedly mixed view of the last election. The book delves into what went wrong in the Clinton campaign and why, as well as the internal power struggles and foibles of the key characters in Clinton World. While I am unaware of any major factual mistakes in the book, it made the outcome seem preordained when it most certainly wasn’t. Where the book is most helpful is putting into context events that were not fully appreciated last year. The WikiLeaks releases of internal Democratic National Committee emails and messages from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta came at critical junctures. Some surfaced on the day that Tim Kaine was announced as Clinton’s running mate, others just minutes after the disclosure of the lurid Billy Bush-Donald
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