Showing Up is Not All of Life…HRC #BookReview

If you’re a lover of books, and burdened with the ability to read way too fast, what do you bring on a 17 hour flight from New York City to Ethiopia?

If you’re a political junkie and lover of all things electorate, you pack “HRC” by Jonathan Allen, which documents the time between Hillary’s defeat during the 2008 Democratic primary and selection, and ultimately her political rebirth as Secretary of State in the Obama administration.

I remember reading “Game Change” a couple of years ago and thinking that to have been on the very inside of either the Obama or Clinton campaign would have been both inspirational and disheartening. In order to achieve as much as Hillary Clinton has, it must have been heart-breaking for her to lose in the primary to a young unknown senator from Illinois.

HRC takes the reader through just about every emotion – and brings you inside the campaign ‘war’ rooms and gives detailed accounts of the choices Hillary had to make including her carefully selected words during her concession speech, paving the way for a new relationship with the future President Obama.

If there’s one take away from HRC, it is that Hillary tried, at all times, to be fully aware of the mistakes her presidential campaign made and has worked diligently since 2008 to reinvent herself – something she has done many times over the years, each time rising higher than her fans and adversaries believed possible.

Jonathan Allen does a wonderful job of bringing you inside the White House and foreign affairs offices around the world and shows you a woman who is powerful and smart enough to know that as a woman, her strength has to be countered by self-deprecation and humor. I recommend this book to anyone interested in learning more about the 2008 election and the woman who one day may be known as our first female president.

This was my first selection from the many wonderful books available on Blogging for Books and as a note to anyone reading this review: “I received this book for free from Blogging for Books for this review.”

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