by David PlouffeI'm a big fan of "inside baseball" type books. Books that take you inside of something you wouldn't normally have access to in your normal day to day CNN-watching life.
David Plouffe and David Axelrod ran a political consulting firm in Chicago when they approached the then Senator Barack Obama and asked him if he would be interested in seeking the Democratic nomination for the 2008 Presidential election.
The team started with a few paid employees running from state to state with the Senator who was then running against half his democratic colleagues in the Senate and a few other notable democrats.
Plouffe takes a no holds bared approach to this book. He doesn't mind telling the reader when he was wrong or he made a mistake. He also doesn't mind telling the reader when someone else did. It was very refreshing to read a non-fiction book about politics that wasn't sanitized all the way.
The book covers the primaries and the general election. It is a fascinating journey from a plucky upstart campaign to a powerhouse well funded campaign at the end.
I don’t think it's a spoiler to tell everyone that they won : )
400 Pages
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