Name: Living History
ISBN: 9780743222259

Hillary Rodham Clinton

The author chronicles her eight years as First Lady of the United States, looking back on her husband's two administrations, the challenges she faced during the period, the impeachment crisis, and her own political work.

Living History

Jeni Enjaian

I appreciated this book more than I thought I would. Since I listened to it as an audiobook, I have to comment on the narration. It could have been done better. Often the narrator would pause at odd moments, unprompted by punctuation. (That is a slight assumption on my part since I didn't have the text in front of me.) Her general inflection also left something to be desired. 
On the book itself:
A reader must approach this book with the knowledge that it is a memoir and this subject to bias, sometimes of a relatively severe gradation. If a reader keeps that in mind, it is possible for a person to read and clean enormous amounts of information from this book. The biggest thing I gleaned was a more nuanced view of events that occurred during my impressionable childhood. Growing up in an extremely conservative environment, I had formed opinions of all those events and historical actors that lacked full investigation and were distinctly one-sided. 
No book is perfect and that certainly includes this one. Often Clinton will shift from national political topics to personal without any transition. That may be a fault of the format. It could be that the print copy of the book has something to mark those divisions. 
Other flaws include occasional over-dramatic language and a lack of information on topics that would seem to have affected her as a First Lady (as she states at the outset of the book as her primary goal) such as why she and Bill chose to have only one child. 
That being said, I really enjoyed reading about history that took place during my lifetime, things that I have distinct memories about. 

As far as memoirs go, this one's not bad. (I'll have to compare it to her husband's whenever I get a chance to read that one.)

Living History

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