“Why do I see them as a unit? Why do I not see her as independent of him? Is that sexist of me?” “When I reread ‘Living History’ (Clinton’s 2003 memoir) as research for ‘American Wife,’ it made me revisit my opinion of her,” Sittenfeld said. Several themes emerged, including the tension between public and private lives, love and marriage, the impossible standards our society puts on successful women, and the way we tend to equate a woman with her husband. She read biographies, Clinton’s own memoirs, and books by other women who had run for office in 2016, including Amy Klobuchar. To get to the personality of Hillary, Sittenfeld said, she first plunged into the writing, but quickly realized she needed to do more research. She moves with him to Arkansas.īut then around page 150, Hillary turns down Bill’s proposal of marriage, moves back to Illinois, and the whole rest of “Rodham” flows straight from Sittenfeld’s fertile imagination. Character Hillary has a passionate affair with Bill Clinton, whom she meets at Yale Law School. The first quarter or so of the book follows the real Hillary’s life pretty closely.
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