Former Democratic National Committee interim chair and Hillary Clinton ally Donna Brazile will be highlighting the DNC's dysfunction during the 2016 election in her upcoming book, Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House.
The book deal was announced Wednesday and is set to be released on November 7, 2017—the one year anniversary of the election that placed President Donald Trump in the White House, the Washington Examiner reports.
Brazile's publisher, Hachette Book Group, said the book will be "an explosive and revealing new look at the 2016 election: the first insider account of the Russian hacking of the DNC and the missteps by the Clinton campaign and Obama administration that enabled a Trump victory."
"I've been a Democrat all my life, but I'm an American first of all," Brazile said in a release by Hachette. "At a moment when our democracy is in crisis, it's time to tell the truth about what went wrong in 2016. Our nation is under unprecedented assault, and if we don't get the facts out, it will happen again—and worse than you can imagine."
The book's announcement has irritated Democratic Party insiders who see it as yet another attack on the DNC, according to the Examiner. Clinton has already vocally criticized the DNC's actions during her campaign, and insiders fear the book will provide further evidence that the party was in disarray and could not adequately assist Clinton on dealing with Trump during her campaign.
In Hacks, Brazile is hoping to lay out the mistakes made by the Clinton campaign and Obama administration that allowed Trump an open road to his election.
"Donna's first person perspective is eye opening," publisher Mauro DiPreta said. "She provides much-needed answers that shed a provocative and at times disturbing light on the historic 2016 election. Our hope is that Hacks will not only set the record straight but also provide a cautionary tale for future elections."