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Hillary's last stand

Book review of 'Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign'

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Kanika Datta
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