A Women in Charge

Synopsis: Drawing from hundreds of interviews with colleagues, friends and with unique access to campaign records, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Carl Bernstein offers a complex and nuanced portrait of one of the most controversial figures of our time: Hillary Clinton. He has given us a book that enables us, at last, to address the questions Americans are insistently—even obsessively—asking: What is her character? What is her political philosophy? Who is she? What can we expect from her?

Pages: 640 Pages

Writer: Carl Bernstein

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Review By Jason Schulte
Rating:3 Star

You can get memoirs and things written by the person that the book is about, but in this case it is a book written about Hillary Clinton from a more neutral position.  At times the book is critical and at other times it really shows the challenges that Hillary faced.  She faced a lot of them but none of them were as challenging as her husband’s sexual encounters with other women.  To be honest, Bill Clinton was president at a time that I was going from High School to a working adult.  Clinton as President was the first presidency that I really paid much attention to what was going on and the policies that they supported.  I remember, it was exciting to have a President and his family in the White House that was so young.  It felt like if anyone could appreciate the challenges younger voters faced, it would be them.  It was also the first Presidency that had so much turmoil.  I was not born yet for Watergate so this was my first big scandal.  Hillary was front and center in most of this from her Health Care plans that kind of just disappeared once the scandals started to the scandals themselves.

Overall, there are lots of things interesting in this book.  It puts a new perspective on things that back then I might have had a different set of perspectives.  Still, it lags a lot in places and gets hung up on events that at the end of the day were of mild importance.  Essentially, I don’t regret reading the book, but at times it was very labor-intensive to keep going.