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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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