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Dan Balz is the chief correspondent at "The Washington Post" and its former national editor, political editor, White House correspondent, and Southwest correspondent. He is the coauthor of two books, the "New York Times "bestseller "The Battle for America 2008" and "Storming the Gates." He is a regular panelist on PBS's "Washington Week "and MSNBC's "The Daily Rundown."

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"Dan Balz's "Collision 2012" is the best presidential campaign chronicle in many years. It is a great book, in part because it isn't about what happened as much as about how people in the campaigns were thinking. It is unusual in that it gives proper place to the impact of thought on political outcomes.
Peggy Noonan, "Wall Street Journal"
Dan's ability to be a fly on the wall is unparalleled.
Gwen Ifill, PBS
The behind-the-scenes reporting throughout heck, the Christie chapter alone makes the book a must-read It was a fascinating ride, which Balz captures vividly in this
most worthy sequel to The Battle for America 2008.
Al Kamen, "The Washington Post"
This is more than a look back at the last presidential race. It is a close look into the campaign. I lived it every day, but I m already learning a lot from Dan s deep reporting. It will go on my shelf as a Bible of the great 2012 race.
Jeff Zeleny, ABC News
Coming from one of the most respected reporters in politics, Balz's account is perhaps the most highly anticipated of the 2012 campaign retrospective genre.
" Huffington Post"
With a sharp eye for detail, crisp and often evocative prose, an understanding of politics and politicians, and the experience gained over decades as a thoughtful old-school journalist, Balz recreates the rhythms of the grueling presidential year of 2012
" The Washington Times"
This book is old-fashioned in a good sense . Specific without being tedious, Collision 2012 is short on windy analysis and long on attributed quotes and statistics
" The Washington Post," Howell Raines
Balz s new book, Collision 2012: Obama vs. Romney and the Future of Elections in America, is so full of anecdotes and revelations that it is hard to stop. But I will. Because even though I think this is one of the best political books I have ever read, harkening back to the Making of the President books in terms of its richness of detail and analysis, it is not a collection of anecdotes. Instead, it is a searing, unsparing indictment of America s presidential election system and the way candidates run for office.
Roger Simon, Politico
"As the Washington Post s chief correspondent, Dan Balz is one of a handful of old media lions who can still shape the conventional wisdom; as such his new campaign book Colllision 2012? is as close to an account-of-record as we re likely to get."
Alex Halperin, Salon.com
"Washington Post chief correspondent Dan Balz's new book, Collision 2012: Obama vs. Romney and the Future of Elections in America, is everything one would expect from the worthy successor to the mantle of Balz's mentor, the late David Broder. Without a trace of snarkiness or the self-righteousness that creeps into too many books by journalists about politics, and without overemphasizing which campaign operative stabbed which one in the back, Balz walks us through the often zany and never boring 2012 election cycle."
Charlie Cook, "National Journal"
"Dan Balz, a veteran Washington Post reporter who wrote The Battle for America, 2008, a best-selling account of that year s presidential race, offers us an admirable sequel in Collision 2012."
Ed Luce, "Financial Times""

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