The United States is sixty-seventh in the world when it comes to the representationof women in government. On November 4, 2008, that could allchange if voters choose to send Hillary Clinton to the White House.
This timely book sets Hillary in the context of what politics (and life ingeneral) is like for women in America. It contains interviews with prominent female spokespersons, including an interview with Gloria Steinem. As yet, no other book looks at Hillary specifically as a female candidate.
Written by Washington-based Guardian journalist Suzanne Goldenberg, the book looks at how Hillary Clinton, product of the boomer generation of women who were rewriting the roles of men and women, negotiated her own marriage. That is, how she carved out an identity of her own and cleaned up the scandals while Bill was governor and in the White House. It goes up to the point when Hillary Clinton decided to run for the Senate. Goldenberg focuses in particular on Hillary's coming of age at Yale Law School, where she interviewed several of her former classmates to talk about what it was like to be a woman in those turbulent times. As yet, no other book has taken a close look at the Yale years.
This is a concise, polemical account of a powerful woman by a leading female journalist that cuts through all the dross of the other books to get you to where you need to be to understand Hillary's place in the US political landscape, but it is also a guide to the landscape itself.
