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Predictably, many reviews of this book on social media and other public platforms are partly fake, half degrading, half adulatory, and several are altogether unburdened by the obligation to review the content of the book rather than the presumed character of its author. This is Hillary Clinton we're talking about, and it's nigh impossible to get through all the flying shrapnel and get an objective perspective of how this book reads. So this is what I'll say, read it for yourself. If nothing else, it's a record that posterity needed. Historians are going to be scratching their heads about 2016 for a while to come, and it's rare to get this much vivid detail from one of the two chief participants in the events that transpired. The book is raw, angry, emotional, funny, defensive and poignant...often at the same time. Just like the campaign was. Love her or hate her, Hillary Clinton's three decades in politics leave us with a different America than the one she found in the 70's. She deserves to have her say, and tell her story through her own eyes. She does that, and more! The book isn't perfect. There are passages where her inner wonk gets carried away, and the book drags as she lists out countless policy details and the names of all the people who manned her campaign. There are passages where the lawyer in her gets defensive and closes the curtains on what could have otherwise been a remarkable exposition. All that is largely compensated by other parts of the book where her lifelong tribulations, vast experience and dry humor leave us with unique insight into the causes she has championed and the historic path that she has blazed. Most importantly, should you be that rare Republican that reads this book, read it with an open mind. Hear her out, even if it is for the last time that you do so. For the first time in her life, she has nothing left to run for. She no longer cares about offending people who might otherwise vote for her. She just writes what she wanted to write after thirty years in a straightjacket, after thirty years of trying to please with poll tested platitudes. It's worth your time.