Hillary Clinton Is the Only Person Who Should Tell Her Story

A lot of people have told Hillary Clinton to shut up in her life. We meet a few of them in her new book, What Happened, part memoir and part election post-mortem. And we are seeing more of them pipe up now with the book’s publication, angry that this woman dares defy their personal preferences with her stubborn insistence that yes, she mattered, and yes, she will keep talking. Clinton’s detractors would like her to say two simple words: “I’m sorry.” She does, of course, and has many times, and does it again and again in this memoir. But instead of leaving it at that – doing the very female thing of apologizing for everything, including those things which are not her fault – she offers up her own view from the ground, as someone who was there and has been in the public eye for most of her adult life. She’s done with electoral politics, and this book was written in just a few months, so we get a far less cautious rendering of Clinton than we do in her previous memoir. We also get a more explicitly feminist one. It suits her. What Happened is in some ways a jarring read in the age of Trump. Clinton is introspective without narcissism, arch without being cruel. She can’t resist, even here, touching on her vision for the United States had she won, and her smartest-girl-in-the-class persona shines through – she’s excited about binders and briefing papers, her books and her meetings. It is impossible to imagine Donal...
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