Rodham moved to Arkansas in 1974, marrying Bill Clinton a year later. As a graduate of Yale Law School, Class of 1973, she served temporarily as a Congressional legal counsel. In the 2008 election Clinton was a leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination.Ī native of Illinois, Hillary Rodham attracted national attention in 1969 when she was chosen by her peers to be the first student commencement speaker at Wellesley College. As the wife of the 42nd, President of the United States, William Jefferson Clinton, Hillary served as First Lady from 1993 to 2001. She was a Senator from the state of New York from 2001 to 2009. history to win a major party's presidential nomination, and the first woman to win the popular vote in a presidential race - despite losing the election. In 2016, she became the first woman in U.S. Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26, 1947) was the 67th United States Secretary of State, serving in the cabinet of President Barack Obama. Secretary Clinton’s descriptions of diplomatic conversations at the highest levels offer readers a master class in international relations, as does her analysis of how we can best use “smart power” to deliver security and prosperity in a rapidly changing world-one in which America remains the indispensable nation. An astute eyewitness to decades of social change, she distinguishes the trendlines from the headlines and describes the progress occurring throughout the world, day after day. She makes a passionate case for human rights and the full participation in society of women, youth, and LGBT people. Drawing on conversations with numerous leaders and experts, Secretary Clinton offers her views on what it will take for the United States to compete and thrive in an interdependent world. Along the way, they grappled with some of the toughest dilemmas of US foreign policy, especially the decision to send Americans into harm’s way, from Afghanistan to Libya to the hunt for Osama bin Laden.īy the end of her tenure, Secretary Clinton had visited 112 countries, traveled nearly one million miles, and gained a truly global perspective on many of the major trends reshaping the landscape of the twenty-first century, from economic inequality to climate change to revolutions in energy, communications, and health. They faced a rising competitor in China, growing threats from Iran and North Korea, and revolutions across the Middle East. Secretary Clinton and President Obama had to decide how to repair fractured alliances, wind down two wars, and address a global financial crisis. This memoir is the story of the four extraordinary and historic years that followed, and the hard choices that she and her colleagues confronted. To her surprise, her former rival for the Democratic Party nomination, newly elected President Barack Obama, asked her to serve in his administration as Secretary of State. In the aftermath of her 2008 presidential run, she expected to return to representing New York in the United States Senate. Our choices and how we handle them shape the people we become.” “All of us face hard choices in our lives,” Hillary Rodham Clinton writes at the start of this personal chronicle of years at the center of world events. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s inside account of the crises, choices, and challenges she faced during her four years as America’s 67th Secretary of State, and how those experiences drive her view of the future.
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