Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign

by Jonathan Allen

Palmieri’s dilemma crystallized the way the convoluted power structure encouraged the denizens of Hillaryland to care more about their standing with her, or their future job opportunities,

get in touch with Brooklyn whenever he wanted to, but as he spent more time talking to donors—and eventually voters—around the country, his confidence in the campaign’s management team dwindled. He wasn’t impressed with the consultants who had failed to get his wife’s economic message out of the gate, and he wasn’t sold on Mook’s capacity to run the operation after a nearly debilitating, whisker-thin win in Iowa.