![]() ![]() How much of Bill Clinton's legacy was a liability for Hillary's presidential campaign, and in what ways was she an asset to his? Independent from Bill, this story allows Hillary to be recognized on her own terms. ![]() "I realize that some readers probably don't want to be in the same room with this book, and then others, it's their dream come true," she says. But going the route of The Butterfly Effect on the life story of a politician whose name alone can instantly stir up a visceral reaction among certain people? In addition to her mid-aughts breakthrough Prep, her work includes American Wife, a fictionalization of the life of Laura Bush, and Eligible, a modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice. ![]() Sittenfeld is no stranger to drawing inspiration from American politics or rewriting narratives. The totality of it all led the New York Times bestselling author, who recently moved to Minneapolis, to base her latest on a provocative thought experiment: What if Hillary and Bill Clinton never got married? The election cycle and the years that followed it demonstrated the entrenched misogyny in America's patriarchal society, after the most qualified woman presidential candidate in history lost to a man with no political experience. If Hillary Clinton had become president in 2016, Curtis Sittenfeld’s new novel, Rodham, would not exist. ![]()
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