A TIME MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR & NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK 2018 Audie Award Finalist " 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 afterward With humor & candor 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 our democracy by a foreign adversary By analyzing 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 our values & our 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 for the nation