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Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime, by John Heilemann and Mark HalperinHere’s ten pages of fun lunchtime exposé, an excerpt from the book Game Change, by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin.

“Edwards reveled in being inside the bubble: the Secret Service, the chartered jet, the press pack, the swarm of factotums catering to his every whim. And the crowds! The ovations! The adoration! He ate it up.”

Wait, there’s more.

“Game Change,” the 2008 deconstruction, says the stress of vaulting onto the national stage caused Sarah Palin to have wild mood swings.

Palin went into a tailspin. She stopped eating or sleeping, and drank only a half a can of diet soda a day…