The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller A compelling read'
- Financial Times A sporadically absorbing pleasingly vengeful & often darkly funny account of one woman's bid for presidential history' Sunday Times Her new book is more gossipy it is meaner more entertaining & more wrong-headed than anything she or her speechwriters have written before' Observer What Happened is highly entertaining It is spirited well-written & informative' Guardian' In the past for reasons I try to explain I've often felt I had to be careful in public like I was up on a wire without a net Now I'm letting my guard down'
- Hillary Rodham Clinton from the introduction of What Happened For the first time Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals what she was thinking & feeling during one of the most controversial & unpredictable presidential elections in history Now free from the constraints of running Hillary takes you inside the intense personal experience of becoming the first woman nominated for president by a major party in an election marked by rage sexism exhilarating highs & infuriating lows stranger-than-fiction twists Russian interference & an opponent who broke all the rules This is her most personal memoir yet In these pages she describes what it was like to run against Donald Trump the mistakes she made how she has coped with a shocking & devastating loss & how she found the strength to pick herself back up afterwards With humour & candour she tells readers what it took to get back on her feet
- the rituals relationships & reading that got her through & what the experience has taught her about life She speaks about the challenges of being a strong woman in the public eye the criticism over her voice age & appearance & the double standard confronting women in politics She lays out how the 2016 election was marked by an unprecedented assault on democracy by a foreign adversary By analysing the evidence & connecting the dots Hillary shows just how dangerous the forces are that shaped the outcome & why Americans need to understand them to protect their values & democracy in the future The election of 2016 was unprecedented & historic What Happened is the story of that campaign & its aftermath
- both a deeply intimate account & a cautionary tale