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In 2008, America was mesmerized by one of the most remarkable presidential campaigns in the nation's history. But despite wall-to-wall media coverage, the real story behind the headlines has never been told. How did Barack Obama, with relatively little experience, beat the odds to become the nation's first African-American president? How did her tumultuous relationship with her husband affect Hillary Clinton's supposedly unstoppable bid? Why did John McCain make the novice governor of Alaska his running mate? And was Sarah Palin merely painfully out of her depth, or troubled in more serious ways? In Game Change, leading political reporters John Heilemann and Mark Halperin lay bare the secret history of the 2008 campaign. Based on hundreds of interviews, Game Change is the occasionally shocking, often hilarious, and truly definitive account of the campaign of a lifetime. John Heilemann is the national political correspondent for New York magazine. An award-winning journalist and author of Pride Before the Fall: The Trials of Bill Gates and the End of the Microsoft Era, he is a former staff writer for The New Yorker, Wired, and The Economist. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Mark Halperin is editor-at-large and senior political analyst for TIME magazine. He is the author of The Undecided Voter's Guide to the Next President and the coauthor of The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008. He spent a decade as the political director for ABC News, and has covered six presidential elections. He lives in Manhattan. 'An amazing piece of work ... It's one of the best books on politics of any kind I've read.' - Clive Crook, The Financial Times
