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HARD CHOICES, By Hillary Rodham Clinton
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Hard Choices is a memoir of former United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton published in 2014, giving her account of her tenure in that position from 2009 to 2013. The book became number one on the New York Times Best Seller List but sold considerably less than her previous memoir had.
Clinton's last day as Secretary of State was on February 1, 2013. As she departed from office, she indicated she was unsure of her future plans but that they did include writing another memoir, to follow 2003's Living History.[1]
On April 4, 2013, Simon & Schuster, her previous publisher, announced that Clinton had signed with them for this new work, with a target publication date of June 2014.[2] Lawyer Robert Barnett handled the negotiations from Clinton's side; the financial terms of any advance or royalties were not publicly disclosed.[2] The New York Post reported "industry speculation" as saying that her advance could be as high as $14 million.[3] Although not confirmed, that figured has been repeated by some other news sources.[4][5][6] From this beginning, the book was partly seen in the light of a possible Clinton bid in the United States presidential election, 2016.[2]
Clinton was assisted in writing the book by two former State Department assistants, speechwriter Dan Schwerin and researcher Ethan Gelber, and by Edward L. "Ted" Widmer, a speechwriter in the Bill Clinton administration.[7] (When the book came out, the three were credited in the Acknowledgements at the back as forming Clinton's "book team".) The first draft of the manuscript was three times its eventual length.[8] Clinton later said of the writing process that it had been "terrific" overall, but that "some days were off-the-charts wonderful and some days were not-even-on-the-charts terrible."[8]
During April 2014, the official publication date of the book was announced as June 10, 2014,[9] and then about a week after that the title of the book was revealed as Hard Choices.
The book contained 635 pages of numbered text, accompanied by three sections of plates containing a total of 100 colored photographs.
In the book, Clinton frames the foreign policy situations encountered during her tenure as a series of hard choices, especially those involving the Middle East and the Arab Spring, Afghanistan and Pakistan, and Russia.[11] Special attention is given to the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 and her relations with Egyptian President and longtime personal friend Hosni Mubarak.[12]
Clinton sometimes delves into disagreements within the Obama administration and where she stood, such as her losing the argument to arm moderate elements of the Syrian opposition.[13][14] In many other cases, however, she does not, saying such discussions "will remain private to honor the cone of confidentiality that should exist between a president and his secretary of State, especially while he is still in office."[11]
A chapter of the book deals with the 2012 Benghazi attack – in which the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, was attacked, resulting in the deaths of the U.S. ambassador to that country, J. Christopher Stevens, and three other Americans – was leaked to Politico.[15] It reiterates the explanations for what happened that Clinton and her supporters had previously made.[14]
Clinton also delves into some personal aspects of her life and career, including getting past any hard feelings towards Obama from her 2008 presidential campaign, events in her family including her daughter Chelsea Clinton's wedding, and glimpses of personal interactions with citizens of other countries during her travels as secretary.[13] The book also addresses the disappointment of her 2008 loss, and for the first time fully recants her 2002 vote on the Iraq War Resolution that cost her in that campaign, writing that "I thought I had acted in good faith and made the best decision I could with the information I had. And I wasn't alone in getting it wrong. But I still got it wrong. Plain and simple."[16][12]
The book concludes with some general thoughts about her visions for America going forward.[12] But it sheds no light on whether she will in fact run for president in 2016, saying only, "The time for another hard choice will come soon."
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