Best Selling Books by John Heilemann

Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times: "Those hungry for political news will read Double Down for the scooplets and insidery glimpses it serves up about the two campaigns, and the clues it offers about the positioning already going on among Republicans and Democrats for 2016 ... The book testifies to its authors’ energetic legwork and insider access... creating a novelistic narrative that provides a you-are-there immediacy... They succeed in taking readers interested in the backstabbing and backstage maneuvering of the 2012 campaign behind the curtains, providing a tactile... sense of what it looked like from the inside." In their runaway bestseller Game Change, Mark Halperin and John Heilemann captured the full drama of Barack Obama’s improbable, dazzling victory over the Clintons, John McCain, and Sarah Palin. With the same masterly reporting, unparalleled access, and narrative skill, Double Down picks up the story in the Oval Office, where the president is beset by crises both inherited and unforeseen—facing defiance from his political foes, disenchantment from the voters, disdain from the nation’s powerful money machers, and dysfunction within the West Wing. As 2012 looms, leaders of the Republican Party, salivating over Obama’s political fragility, see a chance to wrest back control of the White House—and the country. So how did the Republicans screw it up? How did Obama survive the onslaught of super PACs and defy the predictions of a one-term presidency? Double Down follows the gaudy carnival of GOP contenders—ambitious and flawed, famous and infamous, charismatic and cartoonish—as Mitt Romney, the straitlaced, can-do, gaffe-prone multimillionaire from Massachusetts, scraped and scratched his way to the nomination. Double Down exposes blunders, scuffles, and machinations far beyond the klieg lights of the campaign trail: Obama storming out of a White House meeting with his high command after accusing them of betrayal. Romney’s mind-set as he made his controversial “47 percent” comments. The real reasons New Jersey governor Chris Christie was never going to be Mitt’s running mate. The intervention held by the president’s staff to rescue their boss from political self-destruction. The way the tense détente between Obama and Bill Clinton morphed into political gold. And the answer to one of the campaign’s great mysteries—how did Clint Eastwood end up performing Dada dinner theater at the Republican convention? In Double Down, Mark Halperin and John Heilemann take the reader into back rooms and closed-door meetings, laying bare the secret history of the 2012 campaign for a panoramic account of an election that was as hard fought as it was lastingly consequential.

The gripping inside story of the 2008 presidential election, by two of the best political reporters in the country. “It’s one of the best books on politics of any kind I’ve read. For entertainment value, I put it up there with Catch 22.” —The Financial Times “It transports you to a parallel universe in which everything in the National Enquirer is true….More interesting is what we learn about the candidates themselves: their frailties, egos and almost super-human stamina.” —The Financial Times “I can’t put down this book!” —Stephen Colbert Game Change is the New York Times bestselling story of the 2008 presidential election, by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, two of the best political reporters in the country. In the spirit of Richard Ben Cramer’s What It Takes and Theodore H. White’s The Making of the President 1960, this classic campaign trail book tells the defining story of a new era in American politics, going deeper behind the scenes of the Obama/Biden and McCain/Palin campaigns than any other account of the historic 2008 election.

Tells the inside story of those thrilling months, from the collapsing House of Clinton to the erratic John McCain and the bewildering Sarah Palin. This book lays bare the characters of the candidates, warts and all, and charts the true path to the White House

"This shit would be really interesting if we weren''t in the middle of it."—Barack Obama, September 2008 In 2008, the presidential election became blockbuster entertainment. Everyone was watching as the race for the White House unfolded like something from the realm of fiction. The meteoric rise and historic triumph of Barack Obama. The shocking fall of the House of Clinton—and the improbable resurrection of Hillary as Obama''s partner and America''s face to the world. The mercurial performance of John McCain and the mesmerizing emergence of Sarah Palin. Based on hundreds of interviews with the people who lived the story, Game Change is a reportorial tour de force that reads like a fast-paced novel. Character driven and dialogue rich, replete with extravagantly detailed scenes, this is the occasionally shocking, often hilarious, ultimately definitive account of the campaign of a lifetime.

Over the past two years Mark Peterson has photographed American presidential candidates as they lead rallies, meet with voters and plead for votes. He started shortly before the government shutdown in 2013 at a Tea Party rally at the US Capitol, when politicians were railing against President Obama and the Affordable Care Act--a show to get a sound bite into the next news cycle. Since then Peterson has followed the political spin as it approaches the November 2016 election. Donald Trump''s entrance into the race--taking control of TV talking heads and making the media his press agent--is true political theatre. In a similar gesture, Bernie Sanders raised an arm in a power salute to waiting photographers after giving a speech in New Hampshire. Peterson pulls back the curtain on such performances to show these politicians as they really are. Although they are in plain sight, they hide behind words and carefully arranged imagery to project their vision of America. Peterson cuts through such staging and reveals the cold, naked ambition for power.

As one of today''s most influential political photographers, Christopher Anderson has enjoyed rare behind-the-scenes access to the inner workings of American political theater. Stump collects his color and black-and-white photographs from recent campaign trails--particularly from the 2012 Obama/Romney contest--that scrutinize the highly rehearsed rhetorical masks of, among others, Barack and Michelle Obama, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, Newt Gingrich, Bill Clinton and others (including audience members at rallies). Removed from the context of reportage and sequenced here, these images accumulate a mesmerizing quality that is both frightening and hilarious. They are interspersed with other campaign-trail images, of fireworks, flags and other props of high pomp that attend such occasions. John Heilemann, author of the New York Times bestseller Game Change (on the 2008 presidential race), contributes an essay on Anderson''s work.

Hearing regarding Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac, both of whom had been the subject of study over the course of 2001 with a series of hearings & meetings with Representatives concerning the accuracy of current regulatory oversight & appropriate overview of their business operations, given the relationship between their business success & the U.S. taxpayers. Witnesses: Leland C. Brendsel, Chmn. & CEO, Freddie Mac; & J. Timothy Howard, Exec. V.P. & CFO, Fannie Mae. Additional material: Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae: Their Funding Advantage & benefits to Consumers; & GSE Creep into Subprime Could Hurt MarginÓ.

Como Barack Obama, senador iniciante com poucas realizações políticas tangíveis se convenceu de que deveria e poderia ser o primeiro presidente afro-americano dos Estados Unidos? Que papel Bill Clinton desempenhou efetivamente na campanha da esposa? Por que McCain escolheu a desconhecida governadora do Alasca, uma incógnita, como companheira de chapa? E quem é realmente Sarah Palin? Em Virada no jogo, John Heilemann e Mark Halperin se valem de um privilegiado acesso aos meios políticos para responder a essas e a outras perguntas, revelando o que de fato se passou nos bastidores da corrida presidencial norte-americana em 2008. Mesmo com a exaustiva cobertura da imprensa diária, para Heilemann, colunista da revista New York, e Halperin, da Time, boa parte da história por trás das manchetes não fora contada. Por isso, Virada no jogo se empenha em traçar um retrato íntimo dos candidatos e cônjuges que possuíam chances razoáveis de ocupar a Casa Branca: Barack e Michelle Obama, Hillary e Bill Clinton, John e Elizabeth Edwards e John e Cindy McCain. Com base em centenas de entrevistas, Virada no jogo é um tour de force jornalístico que pode ser lido como um romance de ritmo frenético. É a narrativa definitiva, às vezes chocante e não raro hilariante, de uma campanha presidencial que entrou para a história.

«Esta mierda sería realmente interesante si no estuviéramos metidos en ella.» BARACK OBAMA, septiembre 2008 Las últimas elecciones presidenciales americanas fueron las más mediáticas de la historia; se trata de una campaña cubierta por todos los medios y sobre la que parecía que ya se había publicado todo. ¿Todo? Este libro demuestra que no; aún quedaban datos por relevar, sin duda los más interesantes, todo lo que se produjo entre bambalinas. Dos periodistas americanos, John Heilemann y Mark Halperin, ofrecen ahora al gran público dicha información, gracias a su acceso privilegiado a la misma.