“You cannot know Hilary Rodham Clinton without reading this book.”
– Lynn Scherr, ABC News

“Satisfying . . . Sheehy, drawing on interviews with hundreds of subjects–some of whom have kept silent until now–breaks new ground.” – People

“Insightful . . . Highly persuasive . . . Sheehy has fleshed out her story with excellent reporting.” – The New York Observer

• About the Book

  If you want to know what kind of President the other Clinton would make, this is the book. This is the story of a woman and a marriage, both so famous the world over, we think we know everything there is to know. But Hillary’s Choice renders the political icon of our times fully human for the first time.

  Gail Sheehy has been observing Hillary Clinton since 2000, talking to her informally and writing about her in Vanity Fair. The biographical portrait that emerges in Hillary’s Choice is a tour de force of hard reporting shaped by the unique insights of the author of Passages.

  Delving deep into a relationship that is both supportive and destructive, Sheehy answers the constantly asked question “Why does she stay with him?” How has Hillary preserved her spirit through repeated cycles of Clinton’s seduction, betrayal, and repentance? Sheehy shows through one vivid scene after another how Hillary became addicted to Bill, and how desperately Bill depended on Hillary to teach him how to fight and bring him back again and again from the political dead. Power and shame shift violently between Hillary to Bill as Sheehy deconstructs their embattled co-presidency.

  Hillary’s Choice carries the story through her emergence as a Senator, admired and respected in her own right.

  Daring is what allowed me to outwit the gender barriers.

• Daring is what enabled me to struggle for years as a single mother.
• Daring is what it took to resist remarriage until I was secure in my own identity.

And, after the death of my beloved husband of 24 years, I even dared to love again.

I hope my early passages excite today’s young women to dare.  I trust my later life experiences will assure seasoned women that exhilaration lies in continuing to be passionate about changing the world and hopeful about finding love after loss.