Jonathan Allen

Jonathan Allen reports on Congress, presidential races, and the White House as an American political journalist. Shattered, written with Amie Parnes and published by Crown in 2017, reconstructs Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential run through extensive reporting and interviews with participants. The full title, Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign, identifies its precise focus. Allen and Parnes trace strategic disputes, organizational tensions, messaging problems, and staff responses to an electoral result many insiders had not expected. The book is narrative political journalism rather than a candidate memoir, because its perspective comes from two reporters synthesizing accounts across the organization. Allen’s experience covering national politics helps frame institutional decisions alongside the personalities making them. The collaboration later continued with Lucky, another study of a presidential race. For readers of election history, the coauthorship, complete subtitle, and 2017 Crown edition are essential parts of the identity of this particular book.