Double Down

In their runaway bestseller Game Change, Mark Halperin and John Heilemann captured the 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 voters, disdain from the nation’s powerful money machers, and dysfunction within the West Wing. As 2012 approaches, leaders of the Republican Party salivate over Obama’s political fragility. So how did Republicans screw it up? How did Obama survive the onslaught of super PACs and defy predictions of a one-term presidency?