Post by robeiae on Apr 25, 2018 7:51:11 GMT -5
...the point of which I cannot quite understand.
It's by NYT reporter Amy Chozick and it's called Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling.
Here's a piece on the book at NRO: www.nationalreview.com/2018/04/amy-chozick-chasing-hillary-review-media-bias-display/
A taste:
Oh. My. God. Points for her honesty? I guess...but it is coming from NRO, so maybe it's taking the worst stuff, only.
Here's a review at WaPo (that should be better, right?): www.washingtonpost.com/news/book-party/wp/2018/04/20/amy-chozick-covered-hillary-clinton-for-a-decade-heres-what-she-learned-and-what-she-endured/?utm_term=.d9572449cffc
From it:
That's just weird, I think. Anyway, the WaPo writer seems to enjoy the book, overall. And I think maybe I want to read it, because it looks like it could be quite entertaining. There's also this, from the WaPo review:
I like those takes, they do seem quite perceptive.
It's by NYT reporter Amy Chozick and it's called Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling.
Here's a piece on the book at NRO: www.nationalreview.com/2018/04/amy-chozick-chasing-hillary-review-media-bias-display/
A taste:
Amy Chozick, the Times’ Hillary embed in 2016, confesses in her new book Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling that she cried when she wrote about Clinton’s defeat, that she had been “an admirer . . . chasing this luminous figure” since meeting Clinton as an awed child at a signing event for It Takes a Village, that she has dreams in which the two of them are buddies trying on clothes together at Zara, that “it felt damn good” to “bask in the girl power” when Clinton clinched the Democratic nomination, that a campaign video praising Clinton meant for the Democratic convention (but never used) “gave me the chills,” that when she touched Clinton’s shoulder at a party she “felt the luscious satin of her chartreuse tunic beneath my palm,” and that she thought Clinton’s email scandal was no more a matter of national interest than Bristol Palin’s pregnancy had been. Chozick sounds like Peter Daou or any other Clinton crony when she excoriates voters who say, “They’d vote for a woman, just not THAT woman. . . . I wanted to scream at every critic that thirty years of sexist attacks had turned her into that woman. That sooner or later, the higher we climb, the harder we work, we all become that woman.”
Here's a review at WaPo (that should be better, right?): www.washingtonpost.com/news/book-party/wp/2018/04/20/amy-chozick-covered-hillary-clinton-for-a-decade-heres-what-she-learned-and-what-she-endured/?utm_term=.d9572449cffc
From it:
Despite the book’s title, and despite the decade Chozick spent on some version of the Hillary beat, Clinton herself does not emerge too vividly here. Sharper are the profiles of Clinton’s entourage, particularly the longtime male press aides whom Chozick never identifies by name but simply calls “The Guys.” The women around Hillary — such as Jennifer Palmieri, Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills — rate full names and attributed quotes, but the men are dubbed Brown Loafers Guy, Policy Guy, Hired Gun Guy, Outsider Guy and the loathsome Original Guy, “the longest-serving Svengali and the most-devoted member of Hillary’s court of flattering men.”
When Chozick zeroes in on Clinton and leaves herself out of it, she can be perceptive, pithy and surprising. On Clinton’s apparent disdain for the electoral process: “If there was a single unifying force behind her candidacy, it was her obvious desire to get the whole thing over with.” On Clinton’s ambition: “Her only clear vision of the presidency seemed to be herself in it.”
