Whats to be done with Hillary Clinton, the woman who wont go away?
began a recent piece in theNew York Times.
A recentChicago Tribuneop-edwas headlined, Hillary: How can we miss you when you wont go away?
Credit: Simon and Schuster
TheNew York Postproclaimed, She still doesnt get it.
The gall of her, the sheer and utter gall, the newspapers seem to say.
She should just slink back to her mansion in Chappaqua and stay there.
She has no business writing a book.
Id argue the opposite.
No, theres some sort of special virulence reserved for Clinton.
And she gets it.
In fact, she spends much ofWhat Happenedparsing that very question.
Not that she arrives at a neat and easy answer.
Theres also her own stubbornness: Ive made mistakes, been defensive about them, stubbornly resisted apologizing.
But so have most men in politics.
(In fact, one of them just became President….)
This is a campaign memoir.
He was ranting on Twitter.
Other chapters are not quite so successful.
Sometimes her inner policy wonk gets a bit carried away.
Her detractors will dismissWhat Happenedas a laundry list of grievances.
This is an important book, and anyone whos worried by what happened last November 8 should pick it up.B
