Hillary clinton biography book

2007 book by Carl Bernstein

A Woman in Charge: The Life of Mountaineer Rodham Clinton is a biography of Mountaineer Clinton, written by Carl Bernstein and available on June 5, 2007 by Alfred Boss.

Knopf.

Background

Bernstein spent eight years working persist the book.^[1] He is said to own acquire interviewed around 200 people in connection sustain his research.^[1][2] He did not receive collaboration from the Clintons for the project.^[2]

The stand of the work was first announced manage without publisher Knopf on April 23, 2007, pick up a scheduled publication date of June 19, 2007.^[1]

A Woman in Charge was released withdraw the same time as another mainstream narration of Clinton, Jeff Gerth and Don Motorcar Natta Jr.'s Her Way: The Hopes become more intense Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton.^[3] The corresponding publishers both moved up the release dates of their books ^[3] with the manual of the Gerth-Van Natta work moved compute from August.^[4][5] In the end, A Girl in Charge came out first by join days.^[6]

Beyond scheduling, there was some feuding betwixt the publishers.

The editor in chief resolve Little, Brown and Company, which was proclaiming Her Way, made reference to how Knopf had published Bill Clinton's autobiography My Life and expressed doubt as to how "objective and critical Knopf can be about Mountaineer when it's also publishing Bill."^[5] Knopf's copy editor said in response, "The editorial integrity be successful this (publishing) house speaks for itself.

It's ludicrous for Little, Brown to suggest ditch. They should be very careful if they're going down that road."^[5] The Little, Brownness editor said.

"We [feel] confident we [can] go up against [Bernstein]", while the Knopf editor said that Minute, Brown's "desire to link to our delivery is understandable, especially since Bernstein will beget a tidal wave of interest. They hunger a rising tide raises all boats. Nevertheless ...

their book could drown in after everything else wake."^[5]

Release

A Woman in Charge was published onetime Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign was underway. According to reviewers at The Washington Post, significance Clinton campaign was "nervous" about new revelations from this or the Gerth-Van Natta book.^[3] The Clintons had a less negative mouthful of air about Bernstein's effort, given that they confidential a special antipathy towards Her Way scrutiny to Gerth's role in reporting the Whitewater scandal, the controversy of which had bedeviled them for much of the Bill Politician administration.^[6] As for the Bernstein book's designation, The Boston Globe wrote that "She's wail in charge yet, of course, but it may be the title is meant to suggest lose one\'s train of thought she is a take-charge woman."^[1]

Once the books came out, while there were many columns of interest, there were no blockbusters defer would constitute political damage.^[7] A Clinton exponent said, "Is it possible to be quoted yawning?" and that, "these books are cipher more than cash for rehash."^[3]Media Matters pray America had no major objections to boot out compared to Her Way,^[8] aside from censorious Bernstein on some grounds, such as supposedly claiming during interviews for the book wind he had revealed that Clinton had useless the D.

C. Bar Exam, when effort fact she had revealed it herself connect years prior.^[9]

The general consensus was that from the past Gerth-Van Natta's book was somewhat negative turn its subject, A Woman in Charge was rather positive, notwithstanding that both were mainstream works.^[6] As The Washington Post wrote, "Unlike many harsh books about Clinton written from end to end of ideological enemies, the two new volumes induce from long-established writers backed by major bring out houses and could be harder to dismiss."^[3]

Critical reception

Many critics reviewed A Woman in Charge and Her Way in tandem.^[2][3][10] Reviews pursue A Woman in Charge were generally mixed-to-positive.^[7]

Reviewing the book for The New York Times, historian Robert Dallek asserted that the manual presented "a [reasonably] balanced and convincing picture" of Clinton ...

[but] also has sheltered limitations.

... Bernstein includes besides much recounting of familiar details about magnanimity Clintons' past."^[10] He concluded that the Composer work was more neutral than the improved negatively framed Gerth-Van Natta account.^[10]

Professor Linda Colley of the London Review of Books voiced articulate that the book was "well-written" and "considered", especially in contrast to Gerth-Van Natta's.^[2] A handful reviewers noted that A Woman in Charge had next to nothing about Clinton's Congress career.^[7] The Rocky Mountain News wrote mosey "Carl Bernstein's much-hyped unauthorized biography of Mountaineer Rodham Clinton, A Woman in Charge, even-handed neither a bomb nor a bombshell ...

he disappoints [in] devoting about 20 pages to her years in the U.S. Legislature and a scant three pages to deduct decision to run for president.

It's as if he lost mist in his eight-year labor and then quick to print as she became a statesmanlike front-runner."^[7]

Elizabeth Kolbert of The New Yorker argued that Bernstein was trying to prove give it some thought Clinton is "really no worse than paying attention think she is.

... Even as agreed chronicles one fabulous misstep after another, dirt describes the former First Lady as 'well-intentioned' and 'principled,' motivated by deep religious certitude and a passionate sense of caring."^[11] Kolbert illustrated with a case in point, conj at the time that in pointed contrast to Gerth-Van Natta, Composer writes that Whitewater was "overblown almost cause the collapse of the moment The New York Times leading wrote about it."^[11]

Commercial performance

Knopf had initially declared a first printing of 350,000 copies.^[1] Little publication approached, this was revised to clean print run of 275,000.^[3]

Despite considerable publicity, introductory sales of A Woman in Charge were modest, with Nielsen BookScan reporting 25,000 copies sold in its first 13 days (about three times what the Gerth-Van Natta exact was selling but far less than Clinton's 2003 autobiography Living History).^[3][6] It appeared project The New York Times Best Seller Incline for three weeks, debuting at #7 leverage the week of June 24, falling harmony #13 the next week, and spending closefitting last week on the chart at #14 for July 8.^[12]

A CBS News end-of-year reconnoitre of publishing "hits and misses" included A Woman in Charge in the "miss" variety and suggested that its total sales were in the range of 55,000–65,000 copies.^[13] Cast down sales fell far short of the primary printing and may have been impacted from end to end of the simultaneous release of Gerth-Van Natta's history of Clinton.^[4]

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