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'Unbelievable' chronicles the 'most unlikely, exciting, ugly ... bizarre campaign' in US history

American politics have calmed so much since 2016. So why not take a look back at those days of yesteryear when Donald Trump blew up conventional campaign wisdom on a near-constant basis?

OK, the first half of my premise is wrong. But the rise of President Trump and his unexpected election victory over Hillary Clinton will be studied and analyzed as long as American politics exist. The first entries in what will be a long line of memoirs and insider chronicles have emerged in recent months, including “Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign” by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, and Clinton’s own instant bestseller, “What Happened.”

Next year promises the third installment in the Mark Halperin-John Heilemann “Game Change”

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