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

When Hillary Rodham Clinton declared her candidacy for president in the 2008 election, she shattered any notion that a woman could not, and should not, pursue the highest office in the United States, and the entire world.

Amy Chozick, who followed Clinton’s career as a reporter for over ten years and two presidential campaigns, explores how Clinton pursued her ambition and transformed her decades of public service into a legacy of “breaking the glass ceiling” in her memoir “Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling.”

Chozick begins her book by taking readers behind the scenes with the Clinton team, detailing the never-before-seen conversations, late night strategy sessions, and the culture of the Clinton campaign. She also explores Clinton’s relationship with her team, often portraying her as both idealistic and sharp-witted.

Throughout the course of the campaign, Clinton and her team faced battles from the press, the Republican party, and the Democratic party. Chozick chronicles the many events, debates, and discussions that shined a light on Clinton’s resilience, her strength, and her ambition. Chozick explains the difficulties of the glass ceiling Clinton faced, the politicization of her candidacy, and the controversial decisions she had to make during the 2008 and 2016 presidential elections.

In addition to her discussion of Clinton’s career and her two campaigns, Chozick also sets out to give readers a clearer understanding of the motivations that propelled Clinton’s ambitions in becoming President of the United States. She examines how Clinton's early career as an activist, lawyer, and first lady of Arkansas and the United States, shaped her as a candidate and her platform.

Chozick addresses Clinton’s successes, her failures, and her resilience throughout the book, and intersperses the many accounts with her own reflections to place readers in the shoes of Clinton and those around her.

The journey recounted by Chozick is the story of a woman who was determined to break the highest glass ceiling—to be the first female President of the United States. Through her account, Chozick reveals Clinton’s legacy as a leader, a women’s advocate, and a politician who never gave up on her dream of one day becoming president.

The experiences of Clinton's two campaigns remain relevant today, especially now that the United States finds itself once again ready to set a historic precedent by electing a woman to the world’s most powerful office. For anyone wanting to understand what it’s like to run a presidential campaign or hoping to learn the lessons of Clinton’s struggles and successes, Chasing Hillary provides an insightful and informative account.