Yet even if we accept that Hard Choices really is a book-it has a binding, after all, and has been produced by a printing press under the auspices of a publishing house-it isn’t that easy to say to which genre it belongs. Even the “candid” photos look staged: Hillary, Bill, and Bono sitting at a piano, for example. S.-China relationship on a sound footing for the sake of future generations.” Do not read Hard Choices if you seek a nuanced analysis of the people who run the world’s foreign policy, let alone any juicy gossip. In general they are “consummate professionals” and “enjoyable company.” A few, such as ex–French President Sarkozy, can even be “fun.” And even with more challenging interlocutors, such as the Chinese official Dai Bingguo, Clinton usually manages to speak “deeply and personally about the need to put the U. If they are slightly difficult colleagues, they might be a “creative thinker” (Rahm Emanuel) or have a “bulldozer style” (Richard Holbrooke) with which the secretary nevertheless learned cheerfully to live. In Hard Choices, almost all of Clinton’s colleagues are admirable people who are a “living embodiment of the American Dream,” or a “terrific communicator” who works hard while always remaining decent, passionate, and unstoppable.
Each description therefore reads as if it had been vetted for that purpose. Of course Clinton and her team anticipated, and helped to arrange, the media frenzy, and they knew that many would read the index before the book. And then there is the NPR interview, and so on. To understand this book, one must be aware also of the Diane Sawyer interview with Hillary Clinton, and the Twitter rage about the Diane Sawyer interview with Hillary Clinton, and the Slate analysis of the Twitter rage about the Diane Sawyer interview with Hillary Clinton. The process of “reading” Hard Choices, by contrast, begins not with the physical or even the electronic book, but rather with the advance “leaks” in Politico, and the Fox News reports about the advance “leaks” in Politico, and The Wire’s report on the Fox News reporting on the advance “leaks” in Politico. Normally, the process of writing a book review begins after the reviewer has read the book in question.
Hard Choices by Hillary Rodham Clinton (Simon & Schuster)Įven while Hard Choices was still wafting its way across the Atlantic Ocean- and long before it landed on my desk in central Europe, an entire twenty-four hours after the official publication date-Hillary Clinton’s account of her State Department years had already led several news cycles, inspired thousands of megabytes of commentary, and left its subsequent reviewers with serious literary and philosophical dilemmas.
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