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Summary: Living History
Review: What a disappointment this ultra-hyped book was! What kind of example is Hillary Clinton, a sitting United States Senator, setting with her obvious lies and revisionist history? She has carefully built a shield of protection around herself with her defensive disclaimer that this is how she "remembers" the events, but that makes her no less culpable as her lies are revealed. I believe Mrs. Clinton has destroyed any hope she had for the presidency or, for that matter, a second term to the US Senate. Many suspect some politicians to be deceitful, but cannot prove it. Hillary Clinton's deceit is evidenced throughout this book. "Living History" proves that Hillary Clinton is an embarrassment to the Democrat Party and the country.
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Summary: Just a rehash of things better forgotten.
Review: I really expected this to have a lot more depth than it does. I also found a number of parts where I really have to question the forthright honesty because of well known facts that are in direct conflict with her version of events.The part I really dislike about this book is it's timing. Here our party is trying to come up with a contender able to kick the dummy out of office, yet all the media is talking about is Hillary's book and that tramp Bill was caught with. I just really wish the Clintons would step back a little, if she isn't going to run for president, and let new leaders emerge in the Democrat party and have a voice in the media. With Bill's book due to come out next year, I fear that the Democrat party candidate will be smothered right out of the election.
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Summary: Impressed
Review: the tale is told. the money is in the till. even her detractors got their money's worth. thank you senator for a job well done.
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Summary: Funny
Review: Funny how the reviews cut down party lines. Like JR you love 'em or you hate 'em. But the Republicans here ought to just give it a rest. These folks are worse than nasty and vicious and what depresses me is that the Dems have been on the run for so long while these control freaks who either want to run everyone else's life or run the economy into the ground so we can bankrupt the govt. have hijakced this country and are turning it into a scarey, scarey place. Our current president is an enormous liar and makes Bill and Hillary look like Honest Abe types. I always liked Hillary's political convictions better that Bill's (she sticks by hers) so You Go Girl.
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Summary: We should have guessed
Review: The passing of time shows the Clintons for what they are! This self serving fiction served up in a sugar coat should have a health warning attached. Most of the problems that fell on our heads could and should have been dealt with by the Clintons. Won't get fooled again!
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Summary: This book is a great read.
Review: Hearing from the "other side" brings the Clinton years into balance. Part of what keeps America great is our insistence on valuing different perspectives. We certainly got enough of the right-wing hatred of the Clintons during his two elected terms as President. Eight years of bombarding the media and spending our $$$ on investigations that went nowhere. I was impressed by the way the Clinton's did not respond to the bashing hate-fest with more hate. Hillary's book balances the rabid haters with a voice of reason.
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Summary: What a load of ...
Review: This spin of the facts is so outragous that it makes Hillary look like a total fool. Only a woman with low self-esteem and low self value would take the repeated wandering of her husband and still claim that she believed his lies. The authors (Hillary did not write the book 3 others did) toot the Clinton's horn taking credit for anything good that happened in the world and while they ignore all the harm that was caused by the Clintons. What we all really wanted to know was why all of the busness partners were put in jail, and what happened to all the things stolen from the White house when they left in a huff. Save your money this book is not worth the paper it is writen on. 8 million bucks? what a rip..........
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Summary: Too little, too soon
Review: In the interest of full disclosure, I haven't bought the book but have only read the lengthy excerpt in Time magazine. Even allowing for possible magazine edits, this is a predictably disappointing book. Given that Sen. Clinton is still at the beginning of her political career,her decisions in shaping a memoir have to based at least in part on what will plead her case best to the electorate.
What I have read about Sen. Clinton in biographies by other people made me much more sympathetic to her and much more aware of her views on various issues of public policy than the Time chapters did. For instance, it was mildly interesting to read about what it was like to face such a sudden, vehement rejection of her recommendations on universal health care, but it would have been much more interesting to learn why her husband's administration dropped this issue like a hot rock. There's next to no description of how the plan was supposed to work, let alone why no compromise was reached or seemingly, even attempted.
Similarly, though I follow current events fairly closely, I never understood exactly what Mrs. Clinton's transgression in the so-called Travelgate scandal was supposed to be. She introduces her account with a rather flippant allegory: On a trip, she once asked an aide for a Diet Dr Pepper, then was pursued by frosty goblets of the same soda forever after. Similarly, she says, she asked a White House senior staffer to "look into" reports of irregularities in the White House Travel Office -- an instruction, she implies, followed up on to a similarly overzealous extreme. But what did she know,then and later, about the travel staff;what did she actually hope would be done' and how did she understand her limited authority as First Lady?
Far too much in the excerpts is tossed off simplistically. This feels condescending to the reader, as if Sen. Clinton feels the intricacies of life at the highest levels of government would be too much for the mass audience this book seems to be aimed at.
Not surprisingly, the book is written in language to match this attitude. When interviewed about previous books published under her name, Clinton has not shied away from thanking her "writer" -- the person who presumably pulled interview transcripts and notes together into a finished manuscript. In "Living History," the sentences tend to be choppy -- short on relative clauses, long on cliches and merely serviceable phrasing. Clinton's personality never quite emerges, probably because she is muffled by layers of ghostwriters, editors and consultants.
That said, she is still a fascinating figure worth trying to understand. Has she been doing a slow burn for 30 years as her less sincere, possibly less complex and no more intelligent husband scooped up most of the prizes, while she is accused of not having earned her own way into various jobs -- from heading the health-care task force to winning a seat in the U.S. Senate -- under her own power? Has she ever pictured what she would have done if, "Bruce Almighty" style, she had been granted the powers of the Presidency to see what she could have made of two terms of her own?
Maybe she will get that chance; maybe when she retires from public life, she will have to the time to write her own candid answers to many such questions. I wish this book had done more to convince me that she has a substantive plan for what she thinks can still be done with the nation's highest office.
In the meantime, I plan to finish the book -- but probably with a loaner from the library -- to be fair to her. And I hope that reviewers, from the most prestigious to grassroots voices, also will be fair in attempting to review "Living History" itself -- and not what they think they know about its putative author.
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Summary: A great book by a great woman
Review: Right-wingers only pan the book because they know Barbara Bush, Laura Bush, and every Republican first wife ever combined could never be as great a person or politician as Hillary. Right-wingers hate her cause she scares them witless(pretty immature huh?) which leads me to suspect they read her book only because it mentions Bill's getting some oral nookie from Monica; a subject conservaties find riveting. Take it from me this book is out of this world.
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Summary: Awesome book!!!
Review: "Living History" is an awesome book! Hillary Rodham Clinton did a superb job writing her memoirs. The book is quite inclusive and comprehensive, insofar as information regarding her family, her college experiences, her relationship with Bill Clinton, and her experiences in politics. Prior to the book coming out, I had my hopes that certain topics would be covered - namely her experiences in politics (ranging from her days in college up to the present day) and her relationship with the President. I was extremely pleased to find the detailed coverage of such. While there are many individuals - mostly those from the right wing who cannot see or think like a normal, sane person - who believe Senator Clinton is not telling the "truth," I share the same sentiments she emphasizes in her book - that it is their (the others i.e. President Clinton, et al) story to tell, not hers. She has told her story in "Living History," and it is well-worth the wait and the cost of such a book. This book will go on my bookshelf among my favorite biographies and political memoirs. I certainly believe it will be many others' favorite as well!
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