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4.05 AVERAGE
4.05 AVERAGE
I expected this book to enlighten me about “what happened,” at least from Mrs. Clinton’s viewpoint. Instead, this book was about nearly anything but what happened. Disappointing and quite boring.
This book is so much more than an account of the 2016 election. Hillary Clinton writes of the challenges of being a woman in politics, and more broadly, a woman in the world. She shares details of her family life, and the ways she was able to continue getting up in the morning after losing such an iconic election to Donald Trump. Highly recommended.
I listed to the audio-version narrated by the author made it that much more difficult to relive the 2016 election and its aftermath. I continue to have respect and appreciation for HRC given all of her accomplishments and the obstacles placed before her.
As a person who voted for Hillary and someone who believes she was qualified and prepared to be a good president, I knew that reading this book would be bittersweet and I was right. I do feel I know Hillary better as a person after reading this book as she does talk about her personal history, her family, her roles as daughter, wife, mother. What I did not know prior to reading this is how funny, sharp and warm Hillary is; in her role on the campaign trail she had to by necessity show her strength. Finding a balance between warmth and strength is a challenge for any woman, in any leadership role, let alone for a woman who aspires to lead a country, and to be the first woman to do so. I learned that in the months just after the election, when Hillary was laying low and trying to get her wits about her after this devastating and chaotic election loss, she spent a lot of time hiking and reading - which is what I did as well. (I even learned that she and I are both fans of Elena Ferrante!). Because I followed the election and the analysis in the aftermath of Russian interference, the millions spent on smearing Hillary, Comey's late-election move, as well as the media overfocus on Hillary's emails while ignoring her policy ideas, some of those chapters were more of a re-hash for me although no less sobering. It was particularly difficult to read the chapter with her ideas on common-sense gun control (you probably didn't hear about that, did you? because every time she was invited to speak on TV all she was asked about was her godforsaken emails); I read this chapter in the very days after the mass shooting in Las Vegas. Talk about bittersweet.
I will also note that I have a hard time taking anyone seriously who purports to have read this book and is still blaring "She's just blaming everyone else!" and "She is taking no responsibility!" I can only guess you didn't really read the book and/or you are just repeating talking points you've heard from all the Hillary haters. There are so many quotes in this book about her taking full responsibility, feeling the weight of having let her supporters down, and ultimately having to live with all of the mistakes she feels she and her campaign made. If you have read these quotes full of sadness and humility and can still bark out "She blames everyone but herself!" then I can only surmise you are being willfully hateful and you might want to look at why you might be doing that. Pretending it's true doesn't make it true; it just makes you look like you don't know what you are talking about. Pretending it's true doesn't change the fact that we now have a blazing dumpster fire in the White House; a man doing everything he can to gut health insurance, medicaid, medicare, civil rights, the environment, and to give huge tax cuts to rich people. If bashing HRC makes you feel better about that, then I guess you have bigger issues than reading a book will fix.
I hope someday to meet Hillary to thank her for all of her hard work and I will bring my copy of "What Happened" for her to sign. What I think happened is that we missed out on a great opportunity to elect the first woman president and to have this sharp, funny, warm, well-read and well-prepared woman in the White House, fighting for us every day.
I will also note that I have a hard time taking anyone seriously who purports to have read this book and is still blaring "She's just blaming everyone else!" and "She is taking no responsibility!" I can only guess you didn't really read the book and/or you are just repeating talking points you've heard from all the Hillary haters. There are so many quotes in this book about her taking full responsibility, feeling the weight of having let her supporters down, and ultimately having to live with all of the mistakes she feels she and her campaign made. If you have read these quotes full of sadness and humility and can still bark out "She blames everyone but herself!" then I can only surmise you are being willfully hateful and you might want to look at why you might be doing that. Pretending it's true doesn't make it true; it just makes you look like you don't know what you are talking about. Pretending it's true doesn't change the fact that we now have a blazing dumpster fire in the White House; a man doing everything he can to gut health insurance, medicaid, medicare, civil rights, the environment, and to give huge tax cuts to rich people. If bashing HRC makes you feel better about that, then I guess you have bigger issues than reading a book will fix.
I hope someday to meet Hillary to thank her for all of her hard work and I will bring my copy of "What Happened" for her to sign. What I think happened is that we missed out on a great opportunity to elect the first woman president and to have this sharp, funny, warm, well-read and well-prepared woman in the White House, fighting for us every day.
More intimate than I expected, this was a heady look behind the scenes of a two-year period that felt utterly surreal. Clinton is very candid about the realities of campaigning, and is an enthralling voice in this book.
This book doesn't have all the answers to the question that many Americans were asking themselves ("What the ever-loving f--- did we just do?!"), but Clinton does an admirable job filling in the gaps on her end and presenting the campaign, from her decision to run through the first few months of the new administration, as honestly as she could.
This book doesn't have all the answers to the question that many Americans were asking themselves ("What the ever-loving f--- did we just do?!"), but Clinton does an admirable job filling in the gaps on her end and presenting the campaign, from her decision to run through the first few months of the new administration, as honestly as she could.
I listened to What Happened, wanting to know that very thing.
I learned a lot from listening to HRC explain what happened in the 2016 presidential election. She details the double standards she faced and the amount of press and publication that went to the same topics over and over again throughout the primary and general elections. She details the plans that she had that never seemed to hit the press.
I loved the behind the scenes look at the campaign trail and what comes next from Clinton.
Predictably though, the viewpoint is one-sided. It's difficult to listen to her talk about how cover-ups happened at newspapers but then use that same paper as a source. It's either trustworthy or it's not, right?
In any case, Clinton lays out a plausible explanation for what happened - but does not go into superdelegates, Benghazi, or how the Democratic party colluded for her to win the primary.
I learned a lot from listening to HRC explain what happened in the 2016 presidential election. She details the double standards she faced and the amount of press and publication that went to the same topics over and over again throughout the primary and general elections. She details the plans that she had that never seemed to hit the press.
I loved the behind the scenes look at the campaign trail and what comes next from Clinton.
Predictably though, the viewpoint is one-sided. It's difficult to listen to her talk about how cover-ups happened at newspapers but then use that same paper as a source. It's either trustworthy or it's not, right?
In any case, Clinton lays out a plausible explanation for what happened - but does not go into superdelegates, Benghazi, or how the Democratic party colluded for her to win the primary.
A thorough post mortem of THAT election. Worth a read if you are either a. a woman b. interested in politics and society c. interested in data and facts d. want to be inspired. I feel like my brain has been given a good workout. And I liked it. She is smart, passionate, caring, nobody’s fool and a tough Lady who knows her stuff. Well worth the read.
She discussed her “damn emails” a bit more than I wanted to hear about them, but I get it.
Something about Hillary's writing makes it slow going for me, but it's always worth the effort. She owns all the things she did that led to her loss, and does an excellent job laying out all the things that insurmountable and manipulated the outcome. It's clear the writing of this was deeply painful, and in all the ways she sums up how it would be different if she were president, it's painful for the reader too.