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JHan

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1. It's one of the realest political memoirs I've ever read.
Mon Sep 25, 2017, 12:11 PM
Sep 2017

vastly superior to the usual fare and compelling to read.

It's also Hillary's best book.

I also couldn't help thinking .. as I read it.. that perhaps the real crime since the election has been the way some thousands of voters in three states have come to define all of America.

If Hillary got those couple thousand votes, the media would be falling over itself to explain how despite all odds she managed to connect to the white working class. If Hillary got those couple thousand votes, we would be told that the racial resentments, xenophobic rhetoric, and sexism her opponent indulged in are electoral poison.

Instead, this constituency of voters - barely enough to fill a large stadium - are used to speak for America and much is projected on to them and their choices.

Hillary's book shows how close we came to avoiding the current catastrophe in the White House -and some vested interests don't want that lesson learned.

EDIT: And the more she's told to shut up, the more her detractors prove the point of her book.

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