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Summary: Waste of time... why pay to read a bunch of lies??
Review: Any thinking person should not waste their time reading this over-priced book of fiction. There is nothing believable in this book, mainly because the author (or supposed author) is not believable. There is nothing in this book worth paying a dime for...
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Summary: Intelligent, Articulate, yet little Insight
Review: "Living History" is a living chronology of the life of Hillary Clinton. The book is definitely an autobiography and not a memoir: no memories blurred together, themes carried throughout, events taken out of chronology. You cannot get more straightforward: one chapter on her early childhood, the next on high school, the next on college and so on. At times, you feel she (or whoever wrote it) simply strung verbs together based on the events in her diary on that day.
However, it is well written and easy to read. She writes very evenly. While she does attack her enemies, she does it in a measured manner. Rosalynn Carter, Barbara Bush, and Nancy Reagan were more forthright. Then again, they weren't senators.
I found the most interesting parts of the book to be those times when she strayed from controversial subjects. Her descriptions of her trips abroad and of the individuals she met (Yeltsin serving her moose lips, the Irish Prime Minister debuting his mistress to the public) or the sights she saw (a 12-year old prostitute dying of aids in the Golden Triangle, were moving. She candidly describes her father's early religious and racial prejudices and his evolution into a more forward thinking person. She details her mother's very tough childhood.
Yet this book has little insight. For example, she talks throughout the book about her work on the impeachment of Richard Nixon-yet, almost glows in her description of him at the White House with her and her husband and never mentions the irony. She takes you through her chronology of the Lewinsky affair-but it starts with the public disclosure in January, 1999. She never notes in the chapters leading up to it-chapters which are rich with Bill praise and his activities at the time-the irony that this was the time of his involvement. (Or she could have mentioned it later.)
I am glad that I read this book as I am always interested in how public individuals choose to represent their lives. I would recommend it to those who enjoy autobiographies of public figures. I also would recommend it to those who both hate and love Hillary; most likely, this book will reconfirm your view of her, no matter which end of the spectrum you're on at this time.
Her most insightful remark in the book may be that she has never been as great as the image of her held by her most ardent supporters or as evil as the image of her held by her most vocal detractors. And I'd add-this book is neither as good as the 5 star reviews or as bad as the 1 star reviews.
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Summary: Campaign for president begins
Review: More of the same pablum we get on ABC, CBS and NBC.
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Summary: Don't WASTE YOUR MONEY....
Review: I perused this piece of 'trash' at a local bookstore one afternoon.....spent all afternoon 'speed reading' it out of curiousity. This woman will stop at nothing to get what she wants. Something we already knew about her. This ponderous piece of garbage and lies adds nothing new to the Clinton name except that it confirms that 'evil' continues to thrive in America.
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Summary: TERRIBLE!
Review: This book, if anything, can only help the Republican party. Hillary proves to be a complete idiot, and her boring recollection of life as first lady tells us nothing new. It's the same bull we heard the first time around.Don't waste your money!!
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Summary: For Those Interested in Recent History
Review: Reviewed by Carolyn Howard-Johnson, award-winning author of "This is the Place" and "Harkening" and reviewer for Book Crazy Radio Network. I found "Living History" fascinating for all the reasons that many readers didn't. I didn't expect an expose. I mean, here is a woman who has a political career. Do we really expect bedroom gossip from a woman who is smart, educated and has "lived through enough history" to have better things to talk about? And talk about them, she does. Biased? Sure. No truth was ever told that was not biased. It is always filtered through the writer and the teller (in this case, presumably the same person) and point of view is everything. That's what makes "Living History" a good read; it's a study of the recent past from an insider's point of view. We have Abigail Adams' letters. Future generations will have Hillary Clinton's memoir.
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Carolyn Howard-Johnson's first novel, This is the Place, has won eight awards. Her second book, Harkening, has won three.
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Summary: Revisionist History
Review: This is a book about the way Hiliary would like us to see what happened-- one would have to be a complete idiot to believe a word!
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Summary: Supremely Written
Review: I gotta admit that I walked into the bookstore to buy something for class. This book caught my eye and I sat down to read a couple of pages. I was hooked! It is so intriguing to read a first-person account of one of the most talked-about presidencies in history! I think the book is fabulous!
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Summary: PORTRAIT OF STRENGTH
Review: AHH ONCE AGAIN THE NEO CONSERVATIVE GOD FEARING REDNECKS SQUIRM AT THE MIGHT OF THE NAME "CLINTON"....SHE MAY NOT BE THE BARBIE ANNIE COULTIER IS BUT I'LL TAKE HER ANY DAY..BUT UNLIKE COULTIER SHE HAS A BRAIN...THIS WOMAN HAS SUFFERED UNDER NAZI'S LIKE LIMBAUGH AND ALL HIS CLONES FOR YEARS..GOOD TO SEE HER ON TOP AGAIN...SHE HAS MY VOTE IN 08 OR ANY YEAR FOR THAT MATTER..THE REPUBLCANS SPENT $$$$$$$$ INVESTIGATING THE CLINTONS...WHAT DID THEY FIND? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ..NADA...
(AND WE KNOW THEY WOULD HAVE CRUCIFIED THEM IF THERE WAS EVEN A SCRAP OF TRUTH TO ANY OF THESE SCANDALS)..JUST THINK WHAT THAT MONEY COULD HAVE BEEN USED FOR...WHY IS SHE HATED..SHE'S STRONG ..SHE'S A WOMAN..SHE BELIEVES A WOMAN HAS THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE ..SHE BELIEVES IN PERSONAL FREEDOM...SHE TRULY BELIEVES IN EQUALITY..AND SHE ISNT IN BED WITH BIG BUSINESS..LIKE MR. BUSH AND HIS CRONIES.....
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Summary: What a distortion....
Review: Memory is selective. Other people are giving accounts of things that happened that are completely different than the what she says. Pre-presidential baloney.
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