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Review: Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton
I read Jeff Gerth and Don van Natta’s biography of Hillary Clinton, Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton, and wrote a review about it for Monsters and Critics which can be read here.
To say that I am not exactly positive about this book would be quite an understatement. This book was, in my opinion, not a biography but a hit piece, designed to point out Hillary’s flaws (which she obviously has) without pointing out her virtues.
3 Responses to “Review: Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton”
This is not surprising. This is pretty much the purpose of all of these books about Hillary which have come out over the last several years.
Hit pieces on Hillary (who has earned them; the “vast right-wing conspiracy” [sic] is the US public) are hardly new.
Americans have been widely critical of Hillary Clinton since she began sharing Bill Clinton’s office of the Presidency in early 1993. The chances are that the latest books really don’t say much more interesting than we have been told already, in the many earlier books about her that have been written. “Hell to Pay” may have been the most entertaining.
She’s already been more arrogant than Bush and Cheney combined (she was the reason for the 1994 election results), I bet she’ll be even more secretive in practice than Cheney, and we already know about her throwing arm! The only question is how far to the left she will lunge after she is elected. (She’s presenting a Potemkin “centrist” front now so as not to repel the swing voters and unsure non-far-left Democrats.) Note that one thing she could seek that the radicals now want (Conyers, Kucinich) for health care is actually not in and of itself that unusual, so attacks on “Medicare for All” by her will not be innovative.
Plenty of books already exist. Anything really new will come after she is in the White House again.