Game Of Thorns

Enter Hillary Clinton: a seasoned politician with a slick PR team and the majority of the world's media behind her. Now enter Donald Trump: a brash reality TV star with a penchant for aggressive outbursts on Twitter. Even if these aren't the most obvious ingredients for a presidential race, surely the outcome is a given?

Yet, in one of the most incredible upsets in modern political history, Donald Trump defied the odds and emerged triumphant, leaving his opponent – and the rest of the world – reeling from her shock defeat. But where did it all go so wrong for Clinton?

In Game of Thorns, White House insider and renowned political commentator Doug Wead cuts to the beating heart of the campaign trail. He navigates us through scandal after scandal, even the gravest of which proved powerless to shake Trump's ardent support; explores the media's inability to save Clinton's sinking ship; and explains how even Hillary's staggering campaign spending was still no match for "the Donald".

Here, for the first time, is the full story of Donald Trump's astonishing rise to power.



Doug Wead has been an employee of ten presidential campaigns. He began as a writer for Ronald Reagan in 1979. In 1989 George H.W. Bush brought him on to senior staff at the White House as special assistant to the president and, most recently, he served as a senior adviser to Senator Rand Paul. He is a regular TV commentator and the author of All the Presidents' Children: Triumph and Tragedy in the Lives of America's First Families.