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Watch David Plouffe discuss The Audacity to Win on "Meet the Press"


David Plouffe not only led the effort that put Barack Obama in the White House, but he also changed the face of politics forever and reenergized the idea of…

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1 author picked The Audacity To Win as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I really enjoyed the later seasons of The West Wing, which features a political campaign from the primaries to the general election and beyond.

This is David Plouffe’s account of Obama’s phenomenal and groundbreaking campaign, just a couple of years after the end of The West Wing, and it has a lot of the same exciting, hopeful vibe.

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