![]() ![]() The book tour, interviews, and reviews that followed put Clinton in contact with a national audience of celebrity fans and potential voters that the aspiring presidential candidate would recruit into “Hillaryland.” 2 Translations of the book, including the Chinese version, turned her autobiography into a global best seller. Given this possible future for Clinton's autobiography, I want to return to Living History to meditate on the political uses of autobiography in the gendered arena of American presidential politics. It will most likely enter the New York Times best-seller list for a second time. Clinton's 2003 best-selling autobiography Living History will more than likely be reissued sometime before the campaign begins in earnest. Chances are she will have written another book, this one on foreign policy. She'll have her experience as Secretary of State in the Obama administration, international bona fides, and security credibility that expand her claims to formidable expertise. She will be 69 in 2016, not the oldest candidate Ronald Reagan was 69 when elected. But for many politicos, the expectation is that Hillary Clinton will make a second run for the Democratic nomination and then for the White House. So what the candidate line-up will look like in 2016 is far from predictable. ![]() As the old canard goes: a year is a millennium in politics. ![]()
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