Tuesday, March 31, 2015

HRC by Jonathon Allen and Amie Parnes

The latest book I have to review from #BloggingForBooks is HRC, by Jonathon Allen and Amie Parnes.
 What can I say about this book.... While it is thoroughly researched, there are no real Hillary Clinton bombshells in it. It plods along through her campaigns, her Benghazi scandal, and her Secretary of State position with page after tedious page of small print and boring dissection. I made it 50 pages in before I started skimming and I don't think I missed a thing along the way. The book begins with Hillary's run against Barack, but  there isn't much interesting to read about in her political advisers or her behind the scenes campaign fundraising. She is upset some old connections backed Obama instead of her...this is not very surprising. I wish the editors would've cut the fat and narrowed this book down by about a hundred pages.
 Unless you are an extreme political wonk with a month of free time ahead of you, I don't recommend this book.

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