What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton

July 1, 2018 by Christina

Nonfiction — Kindle edition. Simon & Schuster, 2017. 512 pgs. Library copy. Hillary Clinton received three million more votes than her opponent — a man who was vulgar, violent, and unqualified to be President of the United States — in the 2016 Presidential Election. Yet he won the 70,000 or so votes in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Illinois needed to win the Electoral College, and Donald Trump became the 45th President of the United States. So what happened? At this point […]

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Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton (Part Two)

December 19, 2011 by Christina

Nonfiction — print. Simon & Schuster, 2003. 562 pgs. Borrowed from my mom. When I reached the halfway point on Rodham Clinton’s autobiography I thought her husband would be launching his reelection campaign in a few pages. But the book continues on for more than one hundred more pages before Clinton is reelected and, instead, the reader is treated to tales about her whirlwind adventures across the globe with her husband and daughter. The trips including meeting Nelson Mandela, visiting […]

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Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton (Part One)

December 14, 2011 by Christina

Nonfiction — print. Simon & Schuster, 2003. 562 pgs. Borrowed from my mom. I wasn’t even a year old when Bill Clinton became the 42nd President of the United States, and I was nine when he left office. My recollection of his presidency, and therefore Hillary Rodham Clinton’s time as First Lady, boils down to the Monica Lewinsky scandal and I even doubt that my memories are from the actual event and not pop culture.  At the halfway point through […]

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