For many female journalists, covering the 2016 election meant facing a particular professional conundrum: Are you a reporter first, or a woman first? How do you stay neutral while covering a unique moment in women’s history? Which do you use: Your head or your heart?
In her funny and insightful memoir, Chasing Hillary, the journalist Amy Chozick grapples with this question while also providing a much-needed exploration of Hillary Clinton’s antagonistic relationship with the press. It’s a first-person account of Ms Chozick’s failed 10-year quest to see the “real” Hillary, a quixotic mission that is as revealing in defeat as