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Hillary Clinton’s “What Happened” Sells More Than 300,000 Copies In First Week

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Hillary Clinton’s new memoir What Happened racked up huge first week sales according to publisher Simon & Schuster selling over 300,000 copies.

Hardcover sales of the book topped 168,000 – the biggest nonfiction release in five years.

Additionally, What Happened set a company record for digital audio sales in a single week, and sales of e-book editions was the highest for nonfiction in six years.

These numbers beat her 2014 book, Hard Choices, by 100,000 copies.

But her all-time opening was for 2003’s Living History, which offered Clinton’s first expansive comments on the affair of her husband, President Bill Clinton, with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. Released in the days of Barnes & Noble and Borders bookstores, Clinton sold over 600,000 copies of the highly anticipated memoir in its first week.

Clinton’s detractors have suggested that perhaps it’s time that Clinton stand down and be quiet. But I’d suggest these sales – and her 65.8 million people who voted for her – indicate that people are still very interested in what Hillary has to say.

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Hillary Clinton’s Eulogy For Civil Rights Hero Edie Windsor

Hillary Clinton speaks at memorial for LGBT civil rights hero Edie Windsor

Hillary Clinton was among the many who showed up today to honor and eulogize LGBT civil rights hero, Edie Windsor.

From Hillary’s eulogy:

The day Edie won, much of America cheered with her. Not with the style or the pink scarf. That was uniquely hers. But with a recognition that a wrong had been righted. Through it all, her strength never wavered. Though she did confess to one moment of panic. The day she saw her name in print as United States v. Windsor. It is fitting that she will be immortalized in history books in that landmark decision – synonymous with equal rights and dignity under the law. But she didn’t stop there. She continued to support the needs and the rights of the LGBT community. She helped change hearts and minds, including mine. And we are forever grateful to her for that.

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How she experienced loss, grief, and injustice made her only more generous, more open-hearted, and more fearless in her fight. She refused to give up on the promise of America. There wasn’t a cynical, defeatist bone in her body. That’s especially important for us to remember now. Through her determination and sheer force of will, she brought us another step closer to that more perfect union. Now, in this moment when so much hard-fought progress is hanging in the balance, it is up to all of us to pick up where she left off.

Hillary closed with this quote from poet Mary Oliver: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

“Let us continue to be inspired by Edie’s wild and precious life,” Clinton said. “And let us make her proud every day of how we answer that question for ourselves. Thank you, Edie.”

Really – stop and watch. Really quite wonderful.

For the record – not even a tweet from Donald “Better for the gays” Trump about Edie’s passing.

Hillary said she would be there for us. And there she was today. No votes to be had. Just support.

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Hillary Clinton On Trump Presidency: “A Clear And Present Danger To Our Country”

Stone cold logic, intelligence and expertise on display in this short piece from the PBS interview with Hillary Clinton.

It’s dazzling watching someone who knows and understands these very complicated issues discuss them with ease and fluidity.

It’s impossible to even imagine a Donald Trump speaking with this much specificity.

I LOVE the unfettered/unguarded Hillary Clinton.

The full interview with Judy Woodruff on PBS tonight. Check your local listings.

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Tweet Of The Day: Hillary Clinton

With Hillary Clinton all over the media promoting her new best-selling memoir What Happened, it was just a matter of time until the Tweeter in Chief, Donald Trump, chimed in about the book.

And right on cue, there he was last night tweeting, “Crooked Hillary Clinton blames everybody (and every thing) but herself for her election loss. She lost the debates and lost her direction!”

But Hillary was ready for the troll and slapped back offering to send him another book she wrote, It Takes A Village: “If you didn’t like that book, try this one — some good lessons in here about working together to solve problems. Happy to send a copy.”

#FTW!

As predicted, What Happened has hit number one on several best-seller lists including Amazon 🙂

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Video: Ezra Klein Talks To Hillary Clinton About “What Happened”

Everyone I know has shared this really frank, insightful interview with Hillary Clinton regarding her new memoir, What Happened.

Ezra Klein of VOX asks really thoughtful questions, not the same “four minute” interview queries you see all the time.

Hillary is relaxed and very candid about what went wrong for her during the 2016 campaign, and she doesn’t hold back in being accountable for her own mistakes.

From Ezra Klein:

On Tuesday morning, I sat down with Clinton for an hour on the first official day of her book tour. It is a cliché that stiff candidates become freer, easier, and more confident after they lose — see Gore, Al — but it is true for Clinton. Jon Stewart used to talk of the “buffering” you could see happening in the milliseconds between when Clinton was asked a question and when she answered; the moments when she played out the angles, envisioned the ways her words could be twisted, and came up with a response devoid of danger but suffused with caution. That buffering is gone.

In our conversation, she was as quick and confident as I’ve seen her, making the case for her politics without worrying too much about the coalitional angles or the possible lines of offense. And she says plenty that can, and will, offend. In our discussion, she lit into Bernie Sanders’s single-payer plan, warned that Donald Trump is dragging us down an authoritarian path, spoke openly of the role racism and white resentment played in the campaign, and argued that the outcome of the 2016 election represented a failure of the media above all. This was Clinton unleashed, and while she talked about what happened, it was much more interesting when she talked about what she believed should have happened.

I highly recommend you watch below.

Also, if you’re a podcast kinda person, check out her very relaxed and unscripted chat with Pod Save America here.

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Hillary Clinton: “I Am Done With Being A Candidate”

In an appearance on CBS’ Sunday Morning, Hillary Clinton said that she intends to remain politically active, but not as a candidate.

Promoting her new memoir What Happened, which will be released Tuesday, Clinton told host Jane Pauley that she doesn’t intend to run for office again. But she won’t be leaving national politics any time soon.

“But I am not done with politics because I literally believe that our country’s future is at stake,” said Clinton.

The former Secretary of State also had some choice words for Donald Trump’s lack of preparedness for the White House.

“We have a reality show that leads to the election of a president. He ends up in the Oval Office. He says, ‘Boy, it’s so much harder than I thought it would be. This is really tough. I had no idea,’” Clinton said. “Well, yeah, because it’s not a show. It’s real. It’s reality, for sure.”

Clinton also shared that while she’s moved on from her surprise loss last November, the pain of defeat is still present.

“I am good,” Clinton said. “But that doesn’t mean I am complacent or resolved about what happened. It still is very painful. It hurts a lot.”

Watch the full interview below.

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Hillary Clinton Acknowledges Her Own Mistakes As Well As Outside Forces In 2016 Loss In WHAT HAPPENED

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CNN has obtained a copy of Hillary Clinton’s upcoming memoir, What Happened, and gives an advance look at how the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate views the race she lost last November.

Plenty of people have said Hillary needs to own the mistakes of her campaign. And according to CNN, she does.

From CNN:

“I think it’s fair to say that I didn’t realize how quickly the ground was shifting under all our feet,” she writes. “I was running a traditional presidential campaign with carefully thought-out policies and painstakingly built coalitions, while Trump was running a reality TV show that expertly and relentlessly stoked Americans’ anger and resentment.”

Clinton makes frank admissions about the places she fell short. She acknowledges it was bad “optics” to deliver paid speeches to Wall Street banks after the financial meltdown last decade. She says her comment during a CNN town hall about putting coal miners out of business was the misstep “I regret the most.” And, as she has before, Clinton calls her decision to use a private email server during her time at the State Department as “dumb.”

She also acknowledges forces outside her control which contributed to her loss including former FBI Director James Comey’s infamous letter to Congress about reopening the investigation into her emails only to find nothing new.

I think this is a fair and accurate description of what happened, and I look forward to reading the memoir.

I’ve already ordered my copy and you can too here. What Happened will be released September 12.

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Hillary Clinton Covers TIME Magazine

The latest issue of TIME Magazine features a cover story titled “Firsts – Women Who Are Changing The World.”

And, appropriately, the first woman to be nominated for president by a major political party, Hillary Clinton, is on the cover.

Here’s an excerpt:

I don’t want anyone to be discouraged by my defeat or say that they shouldn’t try or support others who will try. We can’t give up trying. This past election was unprecedented in so many ways. In my upcoming book I try to sort out what I could have done differently, what my campaign could have done differently. But you also have to recognize that you had the unprecedented intervention by an FBI director. You had a foreign adversary successfully influence the election. You had voter suppression aimed primarily at African Americans and young voters. And you had sexism, which was front and center. We have to prevent those things from ever happening again. And some of those are long-term challenges.

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I also want my presidential campaign to have helped pave the way for young women who come behind me. Because even though we didn’t win, we made the sight of a woman nominee more familiar, and we brought the possibility of a woman President closer. We brought into the mainstream the thought of a woman leader for our country—and that’s a big deal. Everyone who played a role in making that happen should be deeply proud. We ran into some big speed bumps right at the end, and I believe I would have won but for those, and that’s what I want people to believe. We have to get back up and get back out there.

Don’t be discouraged. Don’t give up. The fight was worth it.

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News Round-Up: September 6, 2017

(via Instagram)

Some news items you might have missed:

• Buzzfeed reports that this ripped daddy (above/below), Pawel Ladziak – the self-styled “Polish Viking,” is actually only 35 years old. He apparently spends thousands each year to look like a really fit 60-year-old.

• Former Hercules actor Kevin Sorbo will speak at the virulently anti-LGBT Values Voter Summit this year. Other speakers include former Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, former child actor Kirk Cameron, Dr. Ben Carson, and “Duck Dynasty” reality peformer Phil Robertson.

• Donald Trump told reporters he has “no second thoughts” about his decision to rescind the DACA program. And yet, this morning he tweeted that should Congress fail to address this immigration impasse, he will “revisit this issue.” He said he had to end the program because it’s “unconstitutional,” so how would he “revisit” an unconstitutional problem?

• Chocolate giant Mars is committing close to $1 billion to fight climate change.

• Hillary Clinton will sit down this coming Sunday with Jane Pauley of CBS’ Sunday Morning 9:00 AM EST for her first network TV interview since losing the 2016 election. She’ll be talking about the ill-fated quest for the presidency, President Donald Trump and her new book, What Happened.

• You know how boxers love to get in each other’s faces before a match? Like, really, really close? NewNowNext has collected their top 15 times boxers got so “game face” it looked like they were going to kiss. #KissKissKiss

And now, more from the “Polish Viking:”