Publisher reveals title for Hillary Clinton’s memoir
Source: Washington Post
NEW YORK -- Hillary Rodham Clintons forthcoming memoir of her four years as secretary of state will be titled Hard Choices, her publisher announced Friday morning.
Simon & Schuster, which is publishing the book due out June 10, also unveiled an image that appears to be the books cover: a closely cropped, black-and-white portrait of Clinton.
The book is being billed as Clintons inside account of the crises, choices, and challenges that she faced during her four years as Americas 67th Secretary of State, and how those experiences drive her view of the future.
Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/04/18/publisher-reveals-title-for-hillary-clintons-memoir/
AleksS
(1,665 posts)I hate that phrase.
It seems to always be used by right-wingers when they're justifying screwing people.
Maybe it's just living in Wisconsin, where Walker always brags about the "hard choices" he had to make when he screwed teachers, nurses, etc. with his Act 10, but every time I hear that phrase I have a visceral reaction of disgust.
But, YMMV.
La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)take syria: crazy ruthless bastard or possibly a right wing muslim nation
Beacool
(30,247 posts)I wonder what were the other choices.
csziggy
(34,131 posts)Beacool
(30,247 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Beacool
(30,247 posts)GOPee
(58 posts)He was Sec Of State under President Carter. I had to go pull it out to be sure, and sure enough it's the same. Why would they do that. Both Democratic SOS. ugh
MADem
(135,425 posts)msongs
(67,361 posts)wyldwolf
(43,867 posts)Beacool
(30,247 posts)That's called a smile.
karynnj
(59,498 posts)The layout is extremely similar to her first book. The picture of the first book shows a softer, less hardened Hillary. She is after all about a decade and a half older, but it is more than that. It is also something that is NOT in most recent pictures - ie consider the ones with Chelsea.
That she chose this one - and it is a nice picture over pictures (like the one with Chelsea) where she looks happy and relaxed for this sterner image fits the message - that she had to make hard decisions. It is an interesting decision and shows a very confident woman.
Beacool
(30,247 posts)I always found it to be insulting and dismissive the pronouncements that she wouldn't be where she was without Bill. I actually think that she would have been in some elected office decades ago if it hadn't been for Bill. She chose to suppress her own bright future in either DC or NY because she loved him. Bill was a smart and charming presence at Yale, but the one who other students talked about was Hillary. She had been the one featured in Life magazine after her commencement speech at Wellesley. Bill has even said more than once that she is smarter than he is.
As for her pic, I think that it reflects her life experience.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)some on DU to bash the title.
It was answered very quickly.
She, as a woman, had far more hard choices to make outside of politics.
Should she give up her career to help Bill?
Should she remain a matronly first lady or be involved?
Should she shelter Chelsea or let her get used to the limelight?
and, the most tormenting, should she forgive Bill and give her marriage a chance or divorce him?
She has probably woven those in her tenure as SOS and fighting for respect in that spot.
Beacool
(30,247 posts)I've already seen two threads here, and several in other sites, asking whether Hillary would want to run for president now that she's about to become a grandmother. Has anyone in the history of the world ever asked a man that question???? How many grandkids does Romney have? There are more than two dozen of them and not once was he asked in 2012 whether being a grandfather would hinder his chances at the WH.
mimi85
(1,805 posts)Hillary and Bill spend that much time together. Please, please, just let her play Grandma. I could never vote for her.
Beacool
(30,247 posts)Their travels keep them apart, but when at home you can see them all over Chappaqua and NYC. They are out and about and will talk to anyone, particularly Bill. If they are home, you'll see them walking their dogs around town (he got a lab named Seamus and she a poodle named Tally). Sometimes Chelsea and her husband are with them and you can see them too. I have a friend who lives in their town. Over the years she has sent me many pics of them.
BTW, that meme of them not being together is a RW talking point.
Hekate
(90,562 posts)... How can she even think about running for POTUS now that she is about to become a grandma?
Misogyny and sexism are apparently alive and well even here at DU in little dark unswept corners.
MADem
(135,425 posts)about running is WAY beyond me!!!
Oh, the difficulties of being a grandparent AND holding public office!!!!!
Why, Lawd-a-mercy, I just can't fathom how it can be done!!!!
BootinUp
(47,085 posts)Successful politicians are generally not that popular here.
MADem
(135,425 posts)cabrona
(47 posts)They have to be twice as good as the older people in the workforce who got in when getting a job was much easier.
It's not just about women or oppressed minorities anymore.
MADem
(135,425 posts)person who may want more money, and who might be more of a drain on the group insurance, though.
It's a two edged sword. Harder for a young kid to move up, but easier to get hired in the first place, albeit at a lower wage.
cabrona
(47 posts)Not like the hard choices that millions of Americans have to make every day about how to survive in a declining, predatory economy.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)by books like this. Also, no one stops average Americans from writing and publishing books. However, these very same average Americans are more likely to be interested in what HRC has to say than other average Americans.
Finally, just because you don't like HRC doesn't mean her struggles are of less importance. Being rich and powerful doesn't guarantee that your children won't use drugs, doesn't guarantee they will get good grades in school, doesn't guarantee that they would graduate college and definitely doesn't guarantee that they would grow up to be good persons. That struggle is universal and probably harder for someone like HRC whose family is always in the limelight and under a microscope.
I don't hate rich people if they have made their money honestly without breaking laws and without exploiting their clients/customers/investors etc.
cabrona
(47 posts)From your post: "Finally, just because you don't like HRC...."
Please attack something I have actually said.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)decisions are hard!
trusty elf
(7,380 posts)but a whacky palindrome springs to mind, namely:
Cigar? Toss it in a can, it is so tragic!
mimi85
(1,805 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,351 posts)How about, The Audacity of Eat Your Peas?
Beacool
(30,247 posts)Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)Beacool
(30,247 posts)The captions write themselves.
Obama: Oh, gee......he's back.
Clinton: I'm baaaccckkk. You miss me?
ForgoTheConsequence
(4,867 posts)"In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al Qaeda members . It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons."
cabrona
(47 posts)To support the Iraq War?
MADem
(135,425 posts)This book is not about her time in the Senate. Your illustrations are not salient.
And where are your excoriations against everyone else who voted the same way?
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Love the way she (and her family) uses all her experiences in The Clinton Foundation.
dawn frenzy adams
(429 posts)When Bill and Hillary stooped to the almighty low, and played the race card during the presidential primaries, I lost all respect for them. Frankly, I can't stand the sight of them. If you've noticed Michelle Obama is never seen with, or speaks of, Hillary Clinton. I would wager a few bucks that Michele has not forgiven Hillary for her tactics. And I don't blame her one damn bit!
wyldwolf
(43,867 posts)"Progressives," like the hard right, have a knack for poutrage and I respect the Clintons and the Obamas too much to add fuel to it. But, aside from that, when/if Clinton is campaigning in the general election, just sit your ass down on election day and whine.
Beacool
(30,247 posts)It must be someone who never ran a campaign. All things considered, the 2008 Democratic race was quite civilized.
wyldwolf
(43,867 posts)Getting mellow in my old age.
Beacool
(30,247 posts)I worked and now I'm home sipping an ice coffee before going to church for the Tenebrae services.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Beacool
(30,247 posts)Beacool
(30,247 posts)Yeah, the mean Clintons. Obama was just pure as the driven snow. He didn't play politics, no siree.
Please..........
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)They have years of working together on some of the work they have done. together
There are more pics like that one. The Obamas dislike the Clintons so much that the president keeps in touch with both of them. He calls Bill once in a while and Hillary regularly. She also had lunch with him last summer.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Here, notice THIS:
I'll save you time--go to 1:10.
I think you need to retract your intemperate and inaccurate comments.
Beacool
(30,247 posts)And also for straightening out that poster.
MADem
(135,425 posts)There are many other examples here and there--HRC and MRO have been together at a wide array of events, and they seem very comfortable with one another! I think MRO's words in that convention speech make the truth very clear.
Beacool
(30,247 posts)My favorite is the one with the Obamas and Hillary in evening wear. They all look very elegant.
NBachers
(17,082 posts)And also for straightening out that poster.
MADem
(135,425 posts)cabrona
(47 posts)The other women in that first pic all look like midgets.
MADem
(135,425 posts)but up close and in person she is a very, very attractive person--she does NOT photograph as well as she looks).
But yeah, Michelle is tall--so's her husband! So are her kids!
freshwest
(53,661 posts)More schoolyard pettiness afoot, desperately trying to find Democrats that hate this president. That dog won't hunt anymore, the leaders of the party are united to stop the GOP from dragging the country back into the ditch. The stakes are too high for the poutrage.
MADem
(135,425 posts)And by their words, we shall know them...!
Hoppy
(3,595 posts)And I'll buy the book.
warrant46
(2,205 posts)A/K/A a bag man for the MI Complex
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Hekate
(90,562 posts)The way those statements are phrased I wonder if they ever had any respect for those Dems in the first place, or how new to politics they are. I understand disagreement, I understand genuine naïveté, but I also have become sadder and more cynical with the years.
I for one am looking forward to reading this book.
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Beacool
(30,247 posts)Same old bitters. Life's too short to worry about them.
ForgoTheConsequence
(4,867 posts)Especially for the 135,000 dead Iraqi civilians.
ForgoTheConsequence
(4,867 posts)Anything that makes you feel better about supporting a warmonger, I get it.
Hekate
(90,562 posts)ForgoTheConsequence
(4,867 posts)I don't have nearly 25k posts so I haven't reached the threshold for enlightenment.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Well, I'll certainly agree with the latter sentiment if not for precisely the former reason.
ForgoTheConsequence
(4,867 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Evidently enlightenment comes more easily to some than others.
ForgoTheConsequence
(4,867 posts)I'm guessing a good chunk of us will be reaching some sort of enlightenment in 2016 (while simultaneously plugging our noses and suppressing our gag reflexes).
Hoppy
(3,595 posts)Changing Welfare as we know it. That worked out well for the 1%.
Need another war? They're your guys.
I do appreciate the financial state in which Bill left the country. That was ruined by Bush.
Beacool
(30,247 posts)And no, Hillary didn't go to war with Iraq and Afghanistan, if that's where you were going with that comment. Bush was president.
MADem
(135,425 posts)magical thyme
(14,881 posts)Not a good title. First place my mind went was to whining Queen Ann.
Tough choices may have been better, although any title they pick is bound to be pretty sucky for that kind of self-promotional, prep for the run book.
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)She deserves to be president.
Regards,
Jamie and Lloyd
joshcryer
(62,269 posts)How much lower can you stoop?
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)But you know me: I'll keep trying.
warrant46
(2,205 posts)1. James "Jamie" Dimon is an American business executive. He is the current chairman, president and chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase, one of the Big Four banks of the United States.
2. Lloyd Craig Blankfein is an American business executive. He is the CEO and Chairman of Goldman Sachs. He assumed this position upon the May 2006, nomination of former CEO Henry Paulson to United States Secretary of the Treasury.
Beacool
(30,247 posts)Regardless, it's better to ignore him than add to his nonsense.
warrant46
(2,205 posts)1. James "Jamie" Dimon is an American business executive. He is the current chairman, president and chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase, one of the Big Four banks of the United States.
2. Lloyd Craig Blankfein is an American business executive. He is the CEO and Chairman of Goldman Sachs. He assumed this position upon the May 2006, nomination of former CEO Henry Paulson to United States Secretary of the Treasury.
Two thugs who help run amerika
Beacool
(30,247 posts)davidpdx
(22,000 posts)But I'll be honest, I won't pay for it (I don't pay for books these days. I'm a cheapskate I fully admit it). I am interested in what she has to say about some of the things that happened during the first four years of the administration (at least what she is allowed to disclose).
joshcryer
(62,269 posts)I suspect it's going to revolve around women's rights more than anything else. I think that will be her campaign strategy. "Change" was Obama's, Clinton's will be "Hard Work," she'll probably focus on how women get paid $0.70 on the $1.00 a lot. Should be interesting.
Not that these aren't important issues or that Clinton hasn't championed them her whole career, but I am not enthused about her obvious candidacy, particularly as it concerns foreign policy. Still, good luck to her.
starroute
(12,977 posts)From Krugman's blog a month or so back -- I snipped it for my notes and don't have the exact link:
"One of the most frustrating aspects of economic debate since 2008 has been the preference of influential people for stories about our troubles that sound serious as opposed to those that actually are serious. The reality, all along, has been that our economy is depressed because there isnt enough spending, and that what we need is something, almost anything, that increases total spending. But policymakers and pundits want to hear about tough decisions and hard choices, and they just recoil from any suggestion that terrible problems might have easy answers."
yurbud
(39,405 posts)Hmmm...
Beacool
(30,247 posts)She was the only woman who sat on the board of directors in the mid 80s. She was asked by Sam Walton because the company was under pressure to have a woman in its board. The board only met 4 times a year. While there she pushed for environmental issues and for more inclusion of women in its management ranks, although it is true that she didn't push them to unionize. Look at the pic I posted, zero diversity. How much actual influence do you think she had as a young woman surrounded by men? She was put there as the token woman and she advocated for the things that were dearest to her, and that she thought she could get the company on board.
Fellow board members and company executives, who have not spoken publicly about her role at Wal-Mart, say Mrs. Clinton used her position to champion personal causes, like the need for more women in management and a comprehensive environmental program, despite being Wal-Marts only female director, the youngest and arguably the least experienced in business. On other topics, like Wal-Marts vehement anti-unionism, for example, she was largely silent, they said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/us/politics/20walmart.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
yurbud
(39,405 posts)or oil spills when you are on the board of a petroleum company.
You are right, board members are in some sense, not employEES, they are the ultimate employERS at a company.
The buck truly stops there.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)Especially leading up to elections because they're generally fluff pieces that don't really tell us anything. They're not bold. They're boring. They're self-congratulating. This goes for every politician. Even Obama's second book, The Audacity of Hope, was nowhere near the level of Dreams from My Father.
So, I'll probably pass on this book as I doubt it'll provide any true insight into who she really is.
Not that I fault her for writing it. But yeah, the only real political memoirs that work seem to be done before a person becomes famous. Then they don't have to worry about image and instead, focus on the hard truths.
tammywammy
(26,582 posts)Like the photo for the cover, she looks great.
Beacool
(30,247 posts)It's a nice pic.