Shattered
Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign
Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes
Penguin Random House
799 pages; Rs 464
Donald Trump’s seven months in the White House reminds us almost daily of the quirks of the US electoral system that brought him to power. But notice this: Though many Americans – including some of his supporters, ironically – are ruing Mr Trump’s accession to the White House, few seem to be missing his defeated opponent Hillary Clinton, who won the popular mandate by a handy margin of 2.8 million votes.
Instead, the left-leaning commentariat and Democrat supporters have mostly expressed a wistful

