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  Chelsea Clinton

  Chelsea Clinton at the 2016 Democratic National Convention
  Born
  Chelsea Victoria Clinton
  February 27, 1980 (age 39)
  Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S
  Education
  Stanford University (BA)
  University College, Oxford
  (MPhil, DPhil)
  Columbia University (MPH)
  New York University
  Political party
  Democratic
  Spouse(s)
  Marc Mezvinsky (m. 2010)
  Children
  3
  Parent(s)
  Bill Clinton
  Hillary Rodham
  Relatives
  Clinton family
  Hugh Ellsworth Rodham (grandfather)
  Dorothy Howell Rodham (grandmother)
  Hugh Edwin Rodham (uncle)
  Tony Rodham (uncle)
  Chelsea Victoria Clinton (born February 27, 1980) is an American author and global health advocate. She is the only child of former U.S. President Bill Clinton and former U.S. Secretary of State and 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. She was a special correspondent for NBC News from 2011 to 2014 and now works with the Clinton Foundation and Clinton Global Initiative, including taking a prominent role at the foundation with a seat on its board.
  Clinton was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, during her father's first term as governor. She attended public schools there until he was elected President and the family moved to the White House, where she began attending the private Sidwell Friends School. She received an undergraduate degree at Stanford University and later earned master's degrees from University of Oxford (having studied at University College, Oxford) and Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, and a Doctor of Philosophy in international relations from the University of Oxford in 2014. Clinton married investment banker Marc Mezvinsky in 2010. They have a daughter and two sons.
  In 2007 and 2008, Clinton campaigned extensively on American college campuses for her mother's Democratic presidential nomination bid and introduced her at the 2008 Democratic National Convention. She assumed a similar role in her mother's 2016 presidential campaign, making over 200 public appearances as her surrogate and again introducing her at the 2016 Democratic National Convention.
  Clinton has authored five children's books and co-authored a scholarly book for adults on global health policy, as well as articles and opinion pieces published in major media outlets. She has received numerous awards and honors.
  Clinton has worked for McKinsey & Company, Avenue Capital Group, and New York University and serves on several boards, including those of the School of American Ballet, Clinton Foundation, Clinton Global Initiative, Common Sense Media, Weill Cornell Medical College, and IAC/InterActiveCorp.

  Contents
  1
  Early years
  2
  White House years
  3
  Education and academic life
  3.1
  Stanford University
  3.2
  University of Oxford
  3.3
  Columbia University
  3.4
  New York University
  4
  Professional life
  5
  Clinton Foundation
  6
  Author
  7
  Political activities
  7.1
  Hillary Clinton 2008 presidential campaign
  7.2
  Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign
  8
  Personal life
  9
  In popular culture
  10
  Awards and recognitions
  11
  Published works
  11.1
  Books
  12
  References
  13
  External links
  Early years
  Clinton was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, on February 27, 1980. Her name was inspired by a visit to the Chelsea neighborhood of London during a Christmas 1978 vacation. Hillary said that upon hearing the 1969 Judy Collins recording of the Joni Mitchell song, "Chelsea Morning", Bill remarked, "If we ever have a daughter, her name should be Chelsea."[1][2][3]
  When Chelsea was two years old, she accompanied her parents as they campaigned throughout Arkansas for her father's gubernatorial race.[1] She learned to read and write at a very young age. Chelsea claims that she started reading the newspaper by the age of three and also wrote a letter to President Ronald Reagan when she was only five years old.[4] In the letter, which was photocopied and preserved by her father, she asked President Reagan not to visit a military cemetery in West Germany, where Nazi soldiers were buried.[4] Chelsea attended Forest Park Elementary School, Booker Arts and Science Magnet Elementary School and Horace Mann Junior High School, both Little Rock public schools.[5] She skipped the third grade.[6]
  As a young child, Clinton was raised in her father's Southern Baptist faith, and later attended her mother's United Methodist church.[7]
  White House years

  White House portrait of the Clintons
  On January 20, 1993, the day of her father's first inauguration, Chelsea moved into the White House with her parents and was given the Secret Service codename "Energy".[8] The Clintons wanted their daughter to have a normal childhood, and they hoped to shield her from the media spotlight.[9]
  Hillary Clinton followed the advice of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis on raising children in the White House, and asked the press to limit coverage of Chelsea to her participation in public events such as state visits.[2] Margaret Truman, daughter of former president Harry S. Truman, supported the Clintons, and in March 1993 wrote a letter to the editor of The New York Times about the damage that could be done if the press made Chelsea a subject of intense coverage.[10]
  Journalists debated the issue of allowing Clinton to retain her privacy. Most media outlets concluded that she should be off-limits due to her age, although Rush Limbaugh[9] and Saturday Night Live both broadcast material mocking her appearance.[11] During this phase of her life, her father said, "We really work hard on making sure that Chelsea doesn't let other people define her sense of her own self-worth ... It's tough when you are an adolescent ... but I think she'll be ok."[12]
  The Clintons' decision to remove Chelsea from public schooling and send her to Sidwell Friends School, a private school in Washington, D.C., drew criticism.[9] While several children of sitting presidents have attended Sidwell, the most recent prior child, Amy Carter, had gone to D.C. public schools. In a 1993 CBS This Morning town meeting, Bill defended the choice, stating that Chelsea did not like "getting a lot of publicity" and would have "more control over her destiny" at Sidwell. Bill explained that they made their decision in an effort to protect Chelsea's privacy; they did not "reject the public schools."[13] Sidwell's students and staff remained silent regarding Chelsea, declining to discuss her publicly.[9] A veteran of Model United Nations,[14] Clinton was a 1997 National Merit Scholarship semifinalist.[15] She graduated from Sidwell Friends in 1997; her father spoke at the graduation ceremony.[16]
  Following Chelsea's high school graduation, media speculation regarding her choice of college resulted in heavy press coverage. She ultimately chose to attend Stanford University. During her father's eight years in office, there were 32 stories in The New York Times and 87 network news stories about Chelsea. Of all presidential children preceding her, she received the most television coverage.[17]

  Clinton ringing a replica of the Liberty Bell at her father's first inauguration
  Although her father was a Southern Baptist, Clinton was raised in and adheres to her mother's Methodist faith.[18] She attended Foundry United Methodist Church on 16th Street, NW in Washington and met with other teens on Sunday mornings to examine questions of faith, philosophy, and issues of concern to her age group. Her parents joined her at the youth group's parent-teen round tables. An adult group leader thought Clinton to be "a terrific kid" and observed that she was treated as an equal in the group. Away from church, her social activities included visits to a Planet Hollywood restaurant with friends and sleep-overs in and out of the White House. President Clinton sometimes joined her and her sleep-over friends for breakfast.[9]
  At age four, Clinton had begun taking dance classes in Arkansas,[19] and she continued her dance training at the Washington School of Ballet for several years. In her book, It Takes a Village, Hillary wrote that Bill was disappointed when Chelsea quit softball and soccer to concentrate on ballet, but he was nonetheless supportive, regularly attending her performances.[9] She was cast in the role of the Favorite Aunt[20] in the 1993 Washington Ballet production of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker.[9][21]
  In early 1999, the Clintons learned of an article being planned by People that examined the First Family's relationships in the wake of scandals and the impending vote on President Clinton's impeachment. The Secret Service told the magazine that they had concerns that the story could compromise Chelsea's security. People decided to run the story anyway, and Bill and Hillary issued a statement expressing their regret and sadness. Carol Wallace, People managing editor, affirmed the magazine's sensitivity to the Clintons' concerns, but felt 19-year-old Chelsea was "an eyewitness to family drama and historical events" and thus "a valid journalistic subject". The article, entitled "Grace Under Fire", was published in February 1999 with a cover photo of Chelsea and Hillary.[22]
  During the last year of her father's presidency, Chelsea assumed some White House hostess responsibilities when her mother was campaigning for the U.S. Senate, traveling with her father on several overseas trips and attending state dinners with him.[23]
  Education and academic life
  Stanford University

  Clinton in 1996
  Clinton entered Stanford University in the fall of 1997 and majored in history.[24][25]
  The week before she arrived on campus, her mother published an open letter in her syndicated column asking journalists to leave her daughter alone. Chelsea arrived at Stanford in a motorcade with her parents, Secret Service agents, and almost 250 journalists. For her security, bullet-proof glass was installed in her dorm windows and surveillance cameras were placed in hallways. Secret Service agents in plain clothes lived in her dorm.[26] With the exception of an occasional tabloid story written about her, Chelsea's four years at Stanford remained out of public view.[27]
  Clinton obtained a B.A. degree in history, with highest honors, at Stanford in 2001.[24][27] The topic of her 167-page senior thesis was the 1998 Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland, advised by Jack Rakove.[27][28] At the time of Chelsea's graduation, her father issued a statement: "Hillary and I are grateful for the friendships and great learning experiences Chelsea had at Stanford, and we are very proud of her on this special day."[29]
  University of Oxford
  In July 2001, former President Clinton announced that Chelsea would be pursuing a master's degree at University College of the University of Oxford where he had studied politics as a Rhodes Scholar.[30] Lord Butler of Brockwell, the Master of University College, said: "Her record at Stanford shows that she is a very well-qualified and able student. The college is also pleased to extend its link with the Clinton family." Upon the recommendation of British and American advisers, the university implemented security measures,[31] and fellow students were asked not to discuss her with the press.[32]
  Arriving at Oxford just after the September 11 attacks, Clinton was drawn to other American students who were also feeling the emotional after-effects of the trauma. She told Talk magazine:
  Every day I encounter some sort of anti-American feeling. Over the summer, I thought I would seek out non-Americans as friends, just for diversity's sake. Now I find that I want to be around Americans – people who I know are thinking about our country as much as I am.[32]
  Clinton was criticized for those remarks in the London press and by the newspaper Oxford Student, whose editorial attacking her angered the university. However, people who met Clinton at that time described her as charming, poised and unaffected, as she adjusted successfully to life abroad.[32]
  In 2003, Clinton completed an MPhil degree in international relations at Oxford.[33] Her 132-page thesis was titled The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria: A Response to Global Threats, a Part of a Global Future, supervised by Jennifer Welsh and Ngaire Woods.[34] Following her graduation, she returned to the United States.[24]
  In 2011, Clinton transferred back to University College, Oxford, from the Wagner School of Public Service at New York University to complete her DPhil degree in International Relations.[35] She stated this was to be under her preferred doctoral advisor, Ngaire Woods.[36] She finished her dissertation in New York City[37] and was awarded the degree in May 2014.[38] Her dissertation was titled The Global Fund: An Experiment in Global Governance.[39][40]
  Columbia University
  In the spring of 2010, Clinton also completed an MPH degree at the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University[41][42] and she began teaching graduate classes there in 2012.[43]
  New York University
  Starting in 2010, Clinton began serving as Assistant Vice-Provost for the Global Network University of New York University, working on international recruitment strategies.[37] She is the co-founder of the Of Many Institute for Multifaith Leadership at NYU and serves as its co-chair.[44] By 2010, she was also pursuing PhD coursework at NYU's Wagner School of Public Service, but later transferred back to Oxford in 2011 to complete her dissertation.[36][45]
  In 2012, Clinton received an award from the Temple of Understanding for her "work in advancing a new model of integrating interfaith and cross-cultural education into campus life," together with Imam Khalid Latif and Rabbi Yehuda Sarna.[46]
  Professional life
  In 2003, Clinton joined the consulting firm McKinsey & Company in New York City,[24] and she went to work for Avenue Capital Group in late 2006. She served as co-chair for a fund-raising week for the Clinton Foundation, and subsequently became Vice Chair for the foundation.[38] She serves on the board of the School of American Ballet[24] and on IAC's board of directors.[47][48] In March 2017, Clinton was named to the board of directors of Expedia Group.[49]
  In November 2011, NBC announced that they had hired Clinton as a special correspondent. One of her roles was reporting feature stories about "Making a Difference" for NBC Nightly News and Rock Center with Brian Williams. It was a three-month contract and allowed her to concurrently continue working for the Clinton Foundation and pursue her education.[50][51] Clinton's first appearance was on the December 12, 2011, episode of Rock Center.[52] Although she received some critical reviews for her work, Clinton's contract with NBC was renewed in February 2012.[53][54] Rock Center ended in May 2013, and she left the network in August 2014.[55][56] Clinton reportedly earned an annual salary of $600,000 for her work at NBC.[57]
  Clinton is the author of five children's picture books, two of which were best sellers, and she co-authored a scholarly book about global health policy. She also has written numerous articles and opinion pieces, published in major media outlets, such as CNN.com, Time magazine, Huffington Post, Refinery 29 and others.
  Clinton Foundation

  Chelsea Clinton speaking at the 2013 Zerokonferansen convention as a representative of the Clinton Foundation.
  Since 2011, Clinton has taken a prominent role at the family's Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation,[58] and has had a seat on its board.[59] As part of her work, she gives paid speeches to raise money with her fees going directly to the foundation, whose goals relate to improving global health, creating opportunities for women, and promoting economic growth. A spokesperson for the foundation told The New York Times in 2014 that her speeches "are on behalf of the Clinton Foundation, and 100 percent of the fees are remitted directly to the foundation".[60][61]
  Author
  In September 2015, Clinton's first children's book, It's Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired and Get Going!, was published by Philomel Books. The 400-page book is aimed at middle school students (ages 10 to 14) and introduces them to a range of social issues, encouraging them to take action to make the world a better place.[62][63][64] The paperback edition was published by Puffin Books in 2017.[65][66]
  In May 2017, her second children's book, She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World , illustrated by Alexandra Boiger, was published by Philomel Books. Upon its release, the book became a bestseller,[67] reaching #1 on the New York Times Children's Picture Books Best Sellers list on July 30, 2017.[68] In 2019 she worked with the Berkeley, California's Bay Area Children's Theater in adapting the book into a musical play, She Persisted: The Musical,[69] which ran from January to March.[70][71] The book was inspired by the feminist expression and social media phenomenon Nevertheless, she persisted and is written for a young audience of four- to eight-year-olds.
  In 2018 Clinton wrote a companion book featuring women around the world, also published by Philomel and illustrated by Boiger, entitled She Persisted Around the World: 13 Women Who Changed History[72] which debuted at #2 on the Times' Children's Picture Books Best Sellers list[73] and remained on the list for 40 weeks.
  Clinton's fourth children's book, Start Now!: You Can Make a Difference, was published by Philomel in 2018. It is aimed at empowering young would-be activists aged seven to ten, addressing themes ranging from bullying to climate change and endangered species.[74][75] In interviews she talked about how she drew on her personal experiences and strategies for dealing with bullies growing up and as an adult.[76][75]
  In October 2018 Clinton announced that she was working on her fifth children's book, Don't Let Them Disappear: 12 Endangered Species Across the Globe, published in April 2019. This book, illustrated by Gianna Marino, is about endangered animals and is aimed at teaching children aged four to eight about species in need of protection, an interest of hers for 20 years.[77][78]
  In 2019 she co-wrote a book with her mother, Hillary Clinton, titled The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience and they embarked on a multi-city book tour together.[79]
  Clinton also co-authored a highly praised scholarly book on global health policy with Devi Sridhar, entitled Governing Global Health: Who Runs the World and Why?, published in 2017 by Oxford University Press. The book examines the role of partnerships between public and private entities in addressing global health issues.[80][81]
  Political activities
  Hillary Clinton 2008 presidential campaign
  Main article: Hillary Clinton 2008 presidential campaign

  Clinton campaigning for her mother
  In December 2007, Clinton began campaigning in Iowa in support of her mother's bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.[82] She appeared across the country, largely on college campuses.[83][84][85] By early April 2008, she had spoken at 100 colleges on behalf of her mother's candidacy.[86]
  While campaigning, Clinton answered audience questions but did not give interviews or respond to press questions,[87] including one from a nine-year-old Scholastic News reporter asking whether her father would be a good "first man".[88] She replied, "I'm sorry, I don't talk to the press and that applies to you, unfortunately. Even though I think you're cute."[89] Philippe Reines, her mother's press secretary, intervened when the press attempted to approach Chelsea directly.[88]
  When MSNBC reporter David Shuster characterized Clinton's participation in her mother's campaign as "sort of being pimped out", the Clinton campaign objected. Shuster subsequently apologized on-air and was suspended for two weeks.[90][91]
  The first time she was asked about her mother's handling of the Lewinsky scandal at a campaign stop Clinton responded, "I do not think that is any of your business."[86] As she became a more experienced campaigner, she refined her responses and deflected questions on the issue with comments such as, "If that's what you want to vote on, that's what you should vote on. But I think there are other people [who are] going to vote on things like healthcare and economics."[86][92]
  At the 2008 Democratic National Convention, Chelsea called Hillary "my hero and my mother" and introduced her with a long video tribute.[93]

  Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign
  Main article: Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign

  Clinton speaking at a campaign rally for her mother in the 2016 presidential election.
  As she did in 2008, Clinton again took an active part in her mother's presidential campaign in 2016,[94] expanding her role as surrogate at more than 200 public events across the country, including and beyond college campuses.[95] In July 2016, she introduced her mother at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia,[96] in a personal, emotional tribute[95] recalling her own upbringing and describing her mother's commitment to issues and to public service.[97]
  Throughout the primary and general election campaigns, Clinton spoke about her mother's lifelong work on behalf of women, families, and children, highlighting her positions on healthcare,[98] affordable college tuition and reduction of student debt,[99][100] climate change,[101] women's reproductive rights,[102] immigration reform,[103] gun violence,[102] and the importance of voter turnout.[100][101] Clinton gave birth to her second child during the campaign, five weeks before the convention, and she frequently spoke about motherhood and the issues women face in balancing work and home, including the challenges of breastfeeding.[94]
  Even prior to her mother's receiving the nomination, Clinton frequently spoke out against candidate Donald Trump's positions and rhetoric, explaining to reporters in Indianapolis in April that she does so because "I think it's important [for] all of us who feel like Mr. Trump's rhetoric of sexism and racism and Islamophobia and anti-immigrant hatred and stance has no place in our country."[95] Later, at a September general election campaign stop in Arizona she further said, "I never thought I would see in my lifetime the almost daily diet of hate speech coming out of Donald Trump ... that too often goes unanswered and unrepudiated by the Republicans. The racism, the sexism, the Islamophobia, the homophobia, the jingoism, the demeaning rhetoric against Americans with disabilities, the disrespect for our veterans, the disrespect for a Gold Star family";[100] additionally, she also called his stand against Constitutionally guaranteed birthright citizenship "un-American".[100] At one appearance in September 2016, while answering a question about her mother's position supporting medical marijuana research, Clinton got some attention for an inaccurate comment she made regarding drug interactions with marijuana; she walked back the comment a few days later, acknowledging that she misspoke.[104]
  Personal life
  On July 31, 2010, Clinton and investment banker Marc Mezvinsky[105] were married in an interfaith ceremony at the Astor Courts estate[106] in Rhinebeck, New York; he is Jewish,[107] but Clinton remained a Methodist and did not convert to Judaism. Mezvinsky's parents are former members of Congress, Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky and Edward Mezvinsky, who were raised in the Conservative Jewish tradition. The senior Clintons and Mezvinskys were friends in the 1990s and their children met on a Renaissance Weekend retreat in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.[108] They first were reported to be a couple in 2005, and became engaged over Thanksgiving weekend in 2009.[105]
  Following their wedding, the couple lived in New York City's Gramercy Park neighborhood for three years[107] and later purchased a condominium in the NoMad district of Manhattan for $10.5 million.[109] Their first child, a daughter named Charlotte, was born on September 26, 2014.[110] Their second child and first son, named Aidan, was born on June 18, 2016.[111][112] Shortly after her son was born, the family moved to the nearby Flatiron District.[113] In January 2019, she announced her pregnancy with her third child, due that summer.[114] Their third child and second son, Jasper, was born on July 22, 2019.[115]
  Her estimated net worth is USD 15,000,000 as of 2016.[116]
  In popular culture
  Clinton is portrayed in the 1996 film Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, where Butt-Head flirts with her at the White House; she responds by tossing him out of a window.[117]
  In Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century, a Disney Channel Original Movie set in the year 2049, Clinton is the President of the United States.[118][119]
  In Clarissa Explains It All, the title character repeatedly imagines Clinton becoming President of the United States.[120]
  In Rush Hour, Chris Tucker's character, Carter, is negotiating with kidnappers who ask for $50,000,000 to release their hostage, to which Carter replies with: "$50,000,000?! Who do you think you kidnapped, Chelsea Clinton?!"
  In January 2015, Chelsea Clinton appeared in a Sesame Street skit with Elmo, advocating the importance of reading to young children.[121]
  Awards and recognitions
  Clinton has received awards and honors, including:
  Children's Defense Fund Children's Champion Award, 2019
  Ida. S. Scudder Centennial Woman's Empowerment Award, 2018
  Mother's Day Council Outstanding Mother Award, 2018
  BlogHer Voices of the Year Call to Action Award, 2018
  Variety Impact Award, 2017
  City Harvest Award for Commitment, 2017
  Virginia A. Hodgkinson Research Book Prize, 2017
  Treatment Action Group Research in Action Award, 2015
  Glamour Woman of the Year, 2014
  Riverkeeper Honoree, 2014
  AJC Interfaith Leadership Award, 2014
  Harvard School of Public Health Next Generation Award, 2013
  Emery S. Hetrick Award, 2013
  New York Observer 20 Most Important Philanthropists, 2013
  Published works
  Books
  It's your world: get informed, get inspired & get going!. Philomel. September 2015. ISBN 978-0399176128.
  Governing global health: who runs the world and why?. Oxford University Press. February 2017. ISBN 978-0190253271. (co-author Devi Sridhar)
  She persisted: 13 American women who changed the world. Philomel. May 2017. ISBN 9781524741723.
  She persisted around the world: 13 women who changed history. Philomel. March 2018. ISBN 978-0525516996.
  Start now!: you can make a difference. Philomel. October 2018. ISBN 978-0525514367.
  Don't let them disappear: 12 endangered species across the globe. Philomel. April 2019. ISBN 978-0525514329.
  A Great Party - Designing The Perfect Celebration. Rizzoli. September 2019. ISBN 978-0847861279. (by Bryan Rafanelli, foreword by Chelsea Clinton)
  The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience. Simon & Schuster. October 2019. ISBN 978-1501178412. (co-author Hilary Clinton)

• The List - https://www.thelist.com/24325/style-transformation-chelsea-clinton/

  The stunning transformation of Chelsea Clinton

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  By The List Staff

  Chelsea Clinton could have had the unique honor of being the First Child for a second time if mother Hillary Clinton had become President of the United States. Alas, that opportunity never came to fruition, but if it did, she'd have been following in the serious style footsteps of Malia and Sasha Obama (unsurprising, considering they have Michelle as their fashion role model). Over the years, Clinton No. 3 slowly but surely came into her own fashion sense, blossoming from an early loungewear enthusiast, into a woman who makes pretty solid sartorial selections. Here's the style transformation of Chelsea Clinton, from childhood until today.

  Early on, Chelsea Clinton was all about keeping it casual

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  When her father, Bill Clinton, was first running for his eventual seat as the 42nd POTUS, the then-12-year-old Chelsea Clinton was regularly seen sporting her go-to garbs: a simple T-shirt and denim jeans. Here, when she joined her political parents on a trip to Arkansas to await the results of his inaugural election cycle in their home state that night, she stepped off the plane wearing a loose-fitted tee with boyfriend jeans, and her no-fuss, no-muss approach to curl management was on full display. The littlest Clinton did slip in a touch of her own ethical leanings in that moment, however, because the shirt she wore displayed her enthusiasm for endangered species protection, a cause for which she's actively worked as an adult.

  When official business was afoot, Chelsea Clinton glammed it up

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  After Bill Clinton was announced as winner of the nation's biggest night, Chelsea Clinton ditched her low-key digs for something a little more stately as she joined her father in accepting his new role as Commander-in-Chief, and her own as First Daughter. Not only did she tame her mane into tighter tendrils, but she also donned a classic plaid coat and gloves to match the timelessness of her parents' own ensembles.

  Growing up and into her own

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  As time progressed, Chelsea Clinton began to adopt her own style sense. Here, when she was still just 15, she attended Easter services with her parents at Washington's Foundry Methodist Church and looked positively ready to enroll in law school, just like her folks once did, in her smart black dress suit with complimenting collar lines on the shirt beneath.

  Even Chelsea Clinton's low-key travel gear got an upgrade

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  Here, in 1996, Chelsea Clinton joined her father on the runway to board Air Force One (with Buddy the dog!) for a family getaway at Martha's Vineyard. Not only had she found an excellent stylist to give her locks a little color punch, but she also decked herself out in casual business style with a classic grey cashmere sweater and some snappy dress pants that made her look all grown up already.

  Pretty soon, Chelsea Clinton started playing with pantsuits, too

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  On Twitter, Hillary Clinton's bio declares her to be a "pantsuit aficionado," among her many other distinctions, but the former FLOTUS-turned-presidential candidate isn't the only member of the Clinton family who's big on trotting around in trouser combos. Here, during a trip to New Zealand for the 1999 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference, Chelsea Clinton stepped out in a blazer suit that was so akin to what her mother had been known to wear, it could've easily been borrowed from her closet.

  Chelsea Clinton had a thing for embroidered cardigans

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  When Chelsea and Hillary Clinton headed to Jordan in 1999 for a meeting with its princess and to launch their lengthy European tour, Chelsea maintained her typically professional aesthetic, but her button-up sweater had just enough sewn-in ornamentation to make it just as appropriate for taking tea as it was for a meeting with royalty. Versatility is key when you're on the move, right?

  Eventually, Chelsea Clinton started to work a little more flair into her wear

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  In this shot from a tennis match at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, Chelsea Clinton was repping a lot more sass with her look than usual, including an arm-baring blouse and knee-length pencil skirt. The real kicker of the ensemble, though, was the rad pair of sunglasses she wore that made the then-student of Stanford University look like the cool college kid that she was at the time.

  Chelsea Clinton started to have fun with her hair

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  Once Chelsea Clinton enrolled in graduate school at Oxford, she began to experiment with a new 'do and debuted some newly-straightened and lightened locks, as seen here at the 2002 premiere of Red Dragon (which she attended with her then-boyfriend, Ian Klaus). At the time, Clinton was rubbing elbows with fashion bigwigs like Donatella Versace and pop culture icons such as Madonna, which might've inspired such a bold change to her signature appearance. Whatever it was, though, the frizz-free look was (mostly) there to stay.

  Chelsea Clinton's accessorization game began to strengthen over time

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  Chelsea Clinton's modesty modality never went by the wayside, but she did start to cycle in some key accoutrements to her outfits, like with this savvy neck scarf that perfectly complemented her brown blazer during her father's 2004 speaking event at the Little Rock Arts Center. She also earned some major snaps for subtly corresponding with her mom's similarly earth-toned get-up at the event.

  At some point, Chelsea Clinton became kind of a dame

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  By the time Chelsea Clinton had reached quarter-centurion status, her look had evolved from relatively matronly to outright ravishing, as with this flattering skirt suit she wore to the opening of Bill Clinton's presidential library in their home state in 2004. Her classically-curled coif was the perfect fit for the scalloped collar of her pretty little blazer, and the fact that she matched it with a nervy leather skirt for such a high-profile affair was all the more exciting.

  Even Chelsea Clinton's campaign clothes went up a big notch

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  When Chelsea Clinton hit the trail in support of her mother's first bid for the hot seat in 2008, she rocked a variety of jackets, but this incredible penny-colored corduroy coat with a mandarin collar stood out for its simple splendor, and could've easily taken attention away from the woman of the hour onstage.

  Chelsea Clinton's LBD obsession is also well documented

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  Whenever she's called to the red carpet, as with this 2009 gala appearance in New York, there's a good chance Chelsea Clinton will be showing up in a little black dress. There are examples aplenty of her penchant for the definitive dress style, and this fresh pairing of a tank blouse with a frilly A-line skirt and round heels (while dialing back on the extras) is a prime example of why we love when she opts for an LBD during a night on the town.

  Chelsea Clinton's style has been unimpeachable

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  Chelsea Clinton has gotten professional wear down to a strict science during her time in the spotlight, but she's also gotten a clear handle on what works for her, as evidenced by this amazing ensemble she put together for the School of American Ballet's Winter Ball in 2012. Anything more on the accent piece front would've taken away from the beautiful fit and fabrics of her two-toned number, but anything less would've been too plain for such an event. Her stacked, deep red necklace was just the right touch and size to give the look the exact pop it needed, while remaining squarely within her comfort zone, so it was well-played indeed.

  Chelsea Clinton's wearing it as well as the stars

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  For Hillary Clinton's second run for the Oval, Chelsea Clinton, then a new mom herself, was once again busy supporting the bid. For her sweet speech at the 2016 Democratic National Convention, she took the stage in a form-fitting red Roland Mouret dress that had the press buzzing about her trendy threads, especially since the same frock had been sported in light blue by none other than Jessica Alba just a couple of months earlier. Looking back at the biggest moments of Clinton's style evolution, it's clear she's been "in" for quite some time.

  Chelsea Clinton's become bolder since the 2016 election

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  Since the outcome of the 2016 presidential race, the Clintons took some time to grieve the loss, but have since picked themselves up, and seem to be doing just fine. Chelsea, in particular, made headlines as there were mumbles that she may join the ranks of her parents and run for office. She quelled those rumors in a video she made with Variety: "I am not running for public office," Clinton said. "I really find this rather hysterical, because I've been asked this question a lot throughout my life, and the answer has never changed."

  She emerged boldly from her family's loss in style, making appearances in bright colours and patterns — a shift from her prior outfits, which leaned toward neutral and classic. She grabbed our attention with this look, which she sported at Variety's Power Of Women in April 2017, and hasn't let go. Though she doesn't plan to get into politics, she has already evoked change through a different route — by educating and empowering children.
  In May 2017, Clinton published a children's book that is a not-so-subtle nod to her mom (there's a wink to her at the beginning of Chelsea Clinton's book). She Persisted tells the stories of 13 women who faced immense opposition to their big goals, and yet they persisted. "I wrote this book for everyone who's ever wanted to speak up but has been told to quiet down, for everyone who's ever been made to feel less than," said Clinton in a statement.

  Chelsea Clinton still stuns when dressing down

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  Chelsea Clinton attended Variety's Power Of Women event in 2017 in a bright ensemble, but she rocked a totally different look for the April cover of the magazine. In a fitted black jacket with zipper details, white T-shirt, and dark blue jeans, she looked laid-back, but still every bit a powerful woman.

  Variety's behind-the-scenes video interview with Clinton was similarly relaxed. Wearing the same outfit as she did on the shoot, she kept her makeup minimal and her hair down. Because Clinton has been wearing her hair straight for so long, you may have forgotten how curly her hair used to be.
  Back in 2015, she told Elle (via Racked) that her curls naturally "fell into waves" in her early 20s and admitted that she missed her ringlets. However, in Amy Chozick's book Chasing Hillary, the author alleged that Clinton had actually gotten a keratin treatment to straighten her hair. Clinton squashed those rumors in 2018 with a tweet directed at Chozick. In it, the former first daughter revealed that she'd "never gotten" a "hair keratin treatment." Of course, it wouldn't be a big deal if she had. Her hair looks great regardless.

  Chelsea Clinton's clearly a fan of staple solids

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  In the past, Chelsea Clinton didn't shy away from bold patterns. While she still rocks a colorful print here and there, you'll often see her in a solid-colored ensemble these days. In May 2018, when Clinton attended the annual American Songbook Gala to honor HBO's Richard Plepler, she chose a fitted forest green dress paired with nude pumps. Later that year, Clinton attended a SiriusXM Town Hall wearing what looks to be those same nude pumps, but, this time, she opted for a lower-cut black dress with ruffle detail on the bodice.

  When promoting her children's book Start Now! You Can Make a Difference on The Hallmark Channel later in the year, she again wore a solid dress in a deep magenta color — proving that one-color outfits are anything but boring. In 2018, SheFinds predicted that a monochromatic style would be the biggest trend in 2019. It looks like Clinton was simply ahead of the curve.

  Chelsea Clinton's chic maternity style

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  In an interview on Good Morning America in April 2019, Chelsea Clinton rocked her classic nude pumps once more — because, seriously, what don't nude pumps go with? — but this time she paired the heels with a similarly hued dress. Clinton, who announced in January 2019 that she and husband Mark Mezvinsky were expecting their third child, donned a stunning fitted blush pink dress.

  We can't help but notice how the expecting mother's dress resembles the Brandon Maxwell number Meghan Markle happened to wear during her own pregnancy. Blush is not just a maternity trend, though. Vogue reported that a bevy of nude shades — or "50 shades of beige" — would be one of the "most important trends of the spring 2019 season." It seems both the duchess and Clinton got the memo. But unlike Markle, who paired her dress with a matching blazer, the activist and author added an unexpected pop of color to the neutral color palette: a cobalt blue cardigan — and it works!

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  Chelsea, Lately The former First Daughter is, at 39, trying to figure out what her own life looks like.
  By Jonathan Van Meter

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  Everywhere Chelsea Clinton goes these days, people stop her to say, “I’m sorry about your mother.” The most touching version of this I witnessed, as we traveled around the country on her book tour this past spring, came from a handsome, stylish young black guy in the Memphis airport. He tentatively planted himself in front of her and said, “I’m sorry your mother lost.” Clinton looked into his face and appeared to summon every drop of sincerity she could muster: “Thank you,” she said. “I am too. We just have to keep moving forward.” To which he said, “I’m working on technology that’s going to help us do that.” He very briefly explained his project and then gently hugged her. “Thank you so much for telling me that,” she replied.
  People stop her to say all sorts of other things as well, like the woman earlier that morning at her hotel gym who asked, “Are you on Grey’s Anatomy?” No, Clinton said politely. “How do I know you?” “I’m Chelsea Clinton,” she said in her matter-of-fact way. “Oh, I’m so sorry,” said the woman. Clinton reassured her that no offense was taken, this sort of thing happens all the time. “I just hope you thought I played a nurse or a doctor and not a corpse.”
  Sometimes the things strangers say to her are far less pleasant. “I’ve had people come up to me and say, ‘I wish your mother had aborted you.’ And I say, ‘I’m so sorry you feel that way,’ ” Clinton told me. “People have said to me, ‘I hope you and your children die so your family line ends with you.’ And I say, ‘I hope you have a great day.’ Because what else do you say to someone who has that much hate and bile? Except to respond with kindness, this sincere sense of, Not only do I not reflect that back to you, but I wish something different for you.”

  This is not what these years were supposed to be like for Chelsea Clinton. She wasn’t supposed to be scarfing down gluten-free cereal bars and yogurt at the gate at La Guardia and then flying off to read her book to hundreds of young people at a zoo. She wasn’t supposed to be comforting perfect strangers in airports over her mother’s loss to Donald Trump. It’s not hard to imagine she wouldn’t have at least been considered as a choice by a President Hillary Clinton for, say, secretary of Education or Health and Human Services. At the very least, she would have been part of her mother’s brain trust, the so-called kitchen cabinet. After all, for her entire life, people — including herself — seem to have expected this of Chelsea, that she would follow into the family business in some way or another. (And unlike Ivanka Trump, she has spent much of her career working on policy.) Another Clinton presidency, this one during her adulthood, would have been a kind of capstone to her professional life thus far.
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  But instead, after the cataclysmic event of her mother’s loss — which she struggles to talk about — Clinton has cobbled together an unusual portfolio: a children’s-book author who has sold over a million books, the vice-chair of the Clinton Foundation, and an adjunct professor at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, all while being a prominent member of the #resistance on Twitter and talk shows. She and her mother are currently on a multicity public tour for their joint book of essays, and she gave birth to her third child in July.* Though each of these things is career enough for any normal human, one gets the feeling that she is a little insecure about whether she’s doing all she can, all the good she can, whether it adds up to … enough, especially in the agonizing age of Trump.
  Born in 1980, Clinton is, by my glib estimation, the First Millennial on the cusp of midlife. She has lived essentially half of her years in a kind of daughter-as-sidekick role in the shadow of two extraordinarily famous, accomplished people. It’s clear that many of her choices so far have been dictated by what would serve the family project best. And now instead — in this period of time that, according to the family’s plan, was going to be the full flowering of Clintonian ambition, her mother at long last smashing that glass ceiling — she’s seeing a preview of the rest of her life. Her parents will always loom large, yes, but in this second half, she’s got to figure out what she wants. She gets to figure out what she wants. It’s probably unexpectedly freeing but also daunting and not a little scary.
  “Her life has been characterized by all these huge events that have shaped her existence, over which she had no agency,” said one of her best friends from her Oxford days, the British actor Simon Woods. “The way the last few years have played out have probably enabled her to be herself. There’s less pressure on her now. She’s not perpetually a surrogate for someone else. And that’s a really good thing. So now is the time when she gets to shape her life by the choices she makes.”

  Clinton with her parents backstage at a campaign rally less than 24 hours before Election Day 2016. Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
  Clinton’s publicity tour for Don’t Let Them Disappear, a children’s book about endangered species — her sixth book, and her fifth for children — began on April 2 and went well into May and took her all over the country. I joined her on the road for the swing through the Northeast and much of the South, mostly trundling among airports and hotels and book events, many of which took place at zoos. It was often just Clinton; her chief of staff, Bari Lurie; and me kibitzing during the spaces in between, figuring out where to get a bite and find a bathroom. Lurie and Chelsea first met when they were 20 and 21, when Lurie was an intern in Hillary’s White House operation at the tail end of the Clinton administration in 2000.
  The minute we arrived in Memphis, Clinton disappeared into a bathroom near the gate to do her makeup. She was five months pregnant, wearing jeans and a little black jacket, carrying a plain black Chanel bag heavy with books and electronic devices. While Lurie and I waited, we spotted Smokey Robinson sitting by himself. By the time Clinton came out ten minutes later, he was on his phone and Clinton decided not to bother him. “I met him a couple of times, and he was lovely,” she said, dragging her rolling suitcase through the airport. “My parents took me to listen to a lot of music when I was a little girl, especially my dad: Temptations, Four Tops, Smokey.”
  In the SUV on our way to the Memphis zoo, the conversation about music continued. Beyoncé’s concert film Homecoming had just been released on Netflix that week, and Clinton and her husband, Marc Mezvinsky, had watched it. She and Lurie got to talking about that now-infamous moment when Beyoncé FaceTimes Jay-Z to show-and-tell him how excited she is about fitting back into her costume after having given birth to twins but Jay-Z seems underwhelmed. “And I said, ‘Marc, if that’s ever me, you better have more enthusiasm,’ ” Clinton says, letting out a big laugh. “It wasn’t the ‘I’m so proud of you. That’s amazing’ that I arguably think any woman deserves, particularly someone who has clearly worked herself body, mind, heart, soul, and spirit to get to that place. Marc was like, ‘Duly noted.’ And I was like, ‘I bet every woman watching this has this sense of She deserves more enthusiasm. Marc was like, ‘I got it. Can we go back to watching it, please? We’ve talked about it three times in the last 90 seconds.’ ”
  “The struggle is real,” said Lurie, who had given birth four months prior and also has a 2-year-old. “Men just don’t get it. Your body made this thing …”
  “Two humans!” Clinton shouted.
  Because this is Chelsea Clinton, the conversation naturally turned to a lengthy disquisition on “the so-called developing world, where one in 45 women still die in childbirth. It’s still incredibly dangerous for mothers and newborns. A million newborns die on their first day, and a million more die in their first month. And we know how to save most of the kids; we just don’t have the structure and the systems to do it.” Brief pause. “Anyway, I loved Homecoming.”
  The Memphis event was packed and lively and had all the markers of a town hall, as if Clinton were running for office. A little boy named Caidyn asked, if she had to choose, would she rather be a paleontologist or an archaeologist. “A question I’ve never been asked before! And a good question! A paleontologist, because you find things that better help us understand climate change and extinction.” Afterward, she did an interview with a local news station while a few people hovered around waiting for a selfie. I heard Clinton say to one of them, “We have a lot in common: I like zoos, and I like my mom too!” Lurie and I were standing off to the side, and I mentioned that this felt a bit like a campaign stop. “It always happens,” said Lurie. “Even when the context is so not that, even when no Clinton is running anywhere for anything.”
  The people of America who love the Clintons behave around them in any organized setting as their constituents. A couple of weeks before, during a signing at Books of Wonder in New York, there was a fair showing of sensible liberals, women who wouldn’t dream of coloring their hair, who move through the world with a chin-up longanimity. One was wearing a T-shirt with a blown-up picture of Hillary’s face, the words YAS QUEEN! emblazoned underneath. At another signing in Atlanta, Chelsea got down on her knees and signed someone’s sneakers. A southern-belle type appeared with her daughter — named Chelsea, born 1992.
  It’s easy to forget that Chelsea Clinton is a southern girl. But when we landed in Memphis, her demeanor shifted ever so slightly — she seemed lighter, more expansive, giddier. Her accent thickened up a bit, too: “Agenda” became “aginda”; “I get it” turned into “I git it.” It was almost incomprehensible to her that I had never been to Nashville or Memphis. You never been to Beale Street? You never been to Sun Studio? “It’s this teeny tiny place. Where Elvis was discovered.” Graceland? The Lorraine Motel where MLK was assassinated?
  It pains her that we won’t have time to go to the infamous spot, now the National Civil Rights Museum — so much so that the morning after our Memphis stop, she insisted that we order an Uber to the airport 15 minutes early so we could detour by the Lorraine Motel. “I just think it’s important that you see this,” she said. “I wish we had time to go in.” To the driver: “Can we go around to the other side? There you go, look. That particularly iconic view. At least you’ve seen it … It is so well curated. After Dr. King was assassinated on April 4th — ”
  “Was it April 4th or 6th?,” said the driver, interrupting.
  “April 4th, 1968.”
  “But there’s an April 6 Street over there, so I don’t know,” said the driver, pointing in the direction of what’s actually November 6 Street.
  “Hmmm. I think it’s April 4th. I hope something good happened on April 6th.” She let out a mordant chuckle. “And there are other civil-rights museums. Montgomery, Vicksburg, which has even more Civil War — ”
  “Shiloh,” said the driver
  “Sooo … Vicksburg actually has more monuments than Shiloh — ”
  “Oh, okay.”
  “It is eerie. You’ll go there and you’ll understand the fight over Confederate monuments.”
  “What a pretty day!,” said the driver.
  “Today is the 24th,” said Clinton. “Ignominious day. Fifth anniversary of Flint not having clean water.” Despite the fact that she has used the phrase “when my mother was First Lady” and talked about living in the White House, the driver never puts it all together. As we get out at the airport, he says, “You guys are real history buffs, aren’t ya?!”

  As we were landing in Atlanta, the pilot came over the sound system and told the people on the left side of the plane that if we looked out the window, we could see Air Force One, which had just landed. Clinton did not look up from her Kindle. President Trump and the First Lady were here to speak at the gracelessly titled Rx Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit. Soon enough, our SUV hit traffic snarled by the presidential motorcade. Lurie was in the back making calls to the Georgia Aquarium, where we were headed for a private tour, letting them know we were running a little late. She was also trying to find a place for us to stop for lunch along the way.
  “We can eat after. I don’t want to make us late,” said Clinton.
  “It’s actually better to bump everything a little bit now,” said Lurie.
  “Okay, I just don’t want to make anyone late.”
  “We have a little bit of a buffer.”
  “Okay, I just don’t want to inconvenience anyone.”
  Clinton was now staring out the window, speaking under her breath, almost to herself. “All right. I do need to eat. But it can wait.” We rode for a while as she and I talked about her friend who lives in Atlanta whom we were meeting at the aquarium. She heard Lurie say we’d be there at 2:20 and started to obsess again. “I don’t want to be 20 minutes late, so we’ll eat superfast.”
  “I’m clarifying for you. It was on your schedule as two, but it’s not two. Relax. This is not a thing.”
  “I loathe being late.”
  We pulled into the parking lot of a Baja Fresh near the aquarium at exactly 1 p.m. Plenty of time not to be late. We were all scarfing chips and salsa when a woman approached. “Oh my gosh,” she said. “Chelsea Clinton. I can’t believe you’re here. What are you doing here? You’re such a real person, sitting here in Baja Fresh. And you’re, like, sooo beautiful.” Her name was Cathy Heller, and she had a podcast. “We just had Howard Schultz on,” she said. “Not to talk about politics. We should have you on.”
  “Invite me!”
  “Can we take a picture?”
  “Of course!” Clinton got up and put her arm around her. “Oh my gosh, Cathy, look at your amazing shoes.” They have struck up an almost instantaneous camaraderie.
  “So how do you have time to do the books, change the world, be a mom?,” said Heller. “I’m serious.”
  “I’m highly scheduled, and I have a great team. And I’m very passionate about all of those things.”
  “And she loves nachos,” said Lurie. “Which is why we’re in Baja Fresh.”
  “This says sooo much about you. You’re just relaxed at the Baja Fresh.”
  Clinton says, “Thank you for being a woman in the business-podcasting space.”

  The Clintons promoting their book on Stephen Colbert’s show this fall. Photo: Scott Kowalchyk/CBS via Getty Images
  Something about being online seems to be freeing for Clinton: Her Twitter persona is spikier, angrier, a little more aggressive toward her political enemies and haters than she is in her daily life. In late September, when Trump called the impeachment probe and whistle-blower complaint “the greatest scam in the history of American politics!,” Clinton retweeted it and wrote simply, “Yes, you are.” She also comes out swinging for issues she cares about — “Shameful: House Republicans Are Pressuring Amazon to Sell Books on Gay Conversion Therapy, a form of child abuse.” When Greta Thunberg tweeted about people “going after me, my looks, my clothes, my behaviour and my differences,” something Clinton knows more about than she cares to, she tweeted to Thunberg, “I am so sorry on behalf of all the adults who should know better and clearly don’t.” And was greeted on Twitter by a chorus of lefties who argued that Clinton’s parents had been among those complicit in setting up the global system that has enabled climate change; being their daughter is a complicated legacy, even on #resistance Twitter.
  A friend of mine since first grade — the smartest, most politically astute person I know, who didn’t go to college and never left our hometown — told me on the phone the other day that she treats Clinton’s Twitter feed as a kind of guide to the “shit” she should care about. “She’s like a fuckin’ Twitter teacher!” she said. When I shared this with Clinton one day over breakfast in Manhattan, she stared at me for a moment. I spooled it out a little further, into a question about people like my friend, who are scared and exhausted and look to her for a jolt of hope. Clinton listened intently and finally said, “You know, I think there is this sense, this perception now, that … you know, Is it just too hard? And yet, so many of the same people who are asking that are themselves persisting, to ensure that it’s not as hard tomorrow.”
  Clinton is not on Instagram or Snapchat. She does not use Facebook to keep up with friends and family. But Twitter is different. “It can’t be disconnected from the president’s kind of mainstreaming and even mainlining of hate and hateful rhetoric. Twitter is the medium through which he largely does that,” she said. “And yet Twitter didn’t create the president’s bigotry. And it didn’t create, I think, his horrific coddling of white nationalism. It just has enabled him to socialize it in an attempt to normalize it. Right? So I think it is important to respond online but to never think that that is a substitute for what still has to happen to make a real difference in real people’s lives.”
  I asked Chelsea what it’s like doing interviews with her mother. She stared at me and blinked a couple of times. “It’s fun.”
  Offline, her tone as an author is less spicy. Clinton’s picture book for kids, She Persisted, was the No. 1–selling picture book at Penguin Young Readers in 2017. Clinton’s editor there, Jill Santopolo (who also edits Kamala Harris and Sonia Sotomayor), was present at the launch of her book tour in April at the Bronx Zoo and brought along a tote bag filled with Clinton’s books, including the sequel, She Persisted Around the World. Clinton has published seven books in five years, including It’s Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired, & Get Going! and Start Now! You Can Make a Difference, books aimed to engage tween/teen activists. When Lurie handed me the tote bag, Clinton, who was being interviewed on-camera for a promotional spot for the zoo, said from across the room, “You could also give him my book Governing Global Health,” drawn from her 712-page dissertation for her Ph.D. in international relations. “I forgot that gem!,” said Lurie, laughing. “Chelsea thinks the subtitle really gets ya: Who Runs the World and Why?” Clinton said, smiling, “You don’t have to read the whole book.”
  Her children’s-book career began when Santopolo saw Clinton on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart in 2013 discussing noncommunicable diseases. “I was like, Why isn’t she writing books for kids? She has this amazing ability to take a large, difficult concept and make it digestible,” said Santopolo. She wrote a letter to Clinton, who, as a new mother, was particularly open to the idea because, she said, she had discovered “how many kids’ books are centered on male voices — even books about animals are told from the male-animal perspective. We desperately need to change that for our daughters and our sons.” Then in early 2017, Republican senators tried to silence Elizabeth Warren during the Jeff Sessions confirmation hearings and … Nevertheless, she persisted. The phrase launched a gazillion memes and T-shirts but also a brand for Clinton. The book, about “13 American Women Who Changed the World,” sold like hotcakes and inspired a sequel; it has been adapted by the Bay Area Children’s Theatre into an hour-long musical for kids that will likely appear in other cities beginning next year. She has also recently taken a bunch of pitch meetings in Hollywood toward turning She Persisted into a television special.
  In some ways, working in the realm of children’s content is an odd move. As a young girl, Clinton was not just taken seriously by adults (she grew up in the Arkansas governor’s mansion and then the White House), she had no choice but to act like an adult when she was a child. Ironically, as an adult, she has been perpetually cast in the role of the dutiful daughter. So even now, there’s a little girlishness that surfaces with some regularity — not stunted, just maybe a little repressed by circumstance. And she is earnest in the extreme, which is another aspect of her personality that adults can misread but that children connect with instantly. She has a deeply ingrained habit of remembering someone’s name and repeating it when she addresses them. Surely, this is the result of being raised by two politicians. As How to Win Friends and Influence People reminds us, “Remember that a person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language.” But it is also the coin of the realm in, say, kindergarten. At one point, I told her that because my friends have children who are reaching that crucial, questioning age, I was only just now realizing that when they ask me Why?, I’ve got to answer it thoughtfully because they hang on every word I say. A big, mischievous smile spread across her face. “Well, hopefully, Jonathan, you’re yourself around your friends’ children but you’re yourself without the swear words.”

  Clinton in New York City with her children. Photo: Eldi/SplashNews.com
  Two days later, Clinton was at the Lesniak Institute for American Leadership at Kean University in Union, New Jersey. The auditorium was packed with adults, some with kids in tow, and Clinton was here to do a Q&A with former state senator Raymond Lesniak about her book in particular and endangered species in general. Lesniak was wearing a baseball cap that read SENATOR RAY. He’d helped put New Jersey at the forefront of animal welfare and conservation by, for example, banning the sale of ivory in the state as well as the importing of trophies of endangered species. This was the main reason Clinton agreed to join him onstage to promote her book. But Lesniak, who is 73 and recently retired after serving in office for 40 years, radiated the genial obliviousness of the career public servant who was reelected again and again. When she appeared onstage to surprisingly loud applause and took a seat next to him, he introduced her by holding up a blown-up photograph of … Chelsea with her parents when she was an awkward teenager. “Oh goodness,” Clinton deadpanned as half the audience cooed on cue while the other half groaned in sympathy. “Who’s that girl?!,” asked Lesniak, as if he were introducing a confusingly adult Shirley Temple. “You were so wonderful and powerful at the Democratic convention when your mom was nominated,” he said, casting her as the sidekick yet again.
  “Oh, thank you,” said Clinton, and then slowly, almost imperceptibly, she began to handle this guy, to take control. Clinton has a way of very politely, very subtly trolling people who cross a line. At one point, Lesniak said, “My wife says I always manage to turn the conversation back to me.” Clinton leveled him with a look. “We are at the Lesniak Institute,” she said. Later, he took a moment to brag. “New Jersey was the first state in the nation, with legislation sponsored by …”
  “The man sitting next to me,” Clinton said to a laughing audience.
  When the questioning was turned over to the crowd, she said, “Adults, please let the kids ask their questions first.” “I love how correct she is,” I whispered to Lurie as Clinton answered a 7-year-old girl’s question about whether she plans to run for office one day, a question Clinton has been answering since she was 3, which she always closes with some version of the following: “So while I don’t have any plans to run for office, I think it’s something that all of us who care about our communities and our country and world should be thinking about. Thank you for asking me that question, but even more, I hope you will ask yourself that question.”
  In early October, as if on cue, when the representative from New York Nita Lowey announced she would not seek reelection to Congress, press speculation ran rampant that Chelsea Clinton would run to replace her. Clinton put the rumors to rest on The View a week later, but, hilariously, reporters had convinced themselves that not hearing back from Clinton’s office was “further fueling” speculation, when in fact her staffers field these calls so frequently they sometimes don’t even bother to respond with denials.
  Clinton’s phlegmatic demeanor and her collected, deliberate, and measured way of speaking can sometimes read as detachment to those who don’t know her. It can also seem like a coping mechanism, a way of deflecting — or absorbing — the endless lifelong scrutiny. “Unfortunately,” says Lurie, “I think people view it through the lens of political correctness, in comparison to celebrities, because they don’t believe that anyone could truly, like, wake up and have a conversation with their kids about family separation at the border. But oh no: I walk into her apartment at 7:30 in the morning and she is teaching her daughter about how unfair and unjust it is. Don’t get me wrong; there’s also a debate about last night’s episode of The Voice. It can be puzzling to others, but to those who know her best, it is one of the most endearing things about Chelsea. ”
  Every moment, no matter how random, offers up an opportunity for her to teach. She can’t be packaged into a sound bite; she is not a woman of slogans or one-liners. And in that regard, she is nothing like her parents — not a politician. She can’t be rushed or interrupted. As someone who knows her well once said to me, “You ask her what time it is and she will build you a wristwatch.”
  People … don’t believe that anyone could truly, like, wake up and have a conversation with their kids about family separation at the border.
  One day in New York, when Clinton was signing at Books of Wonder on 18th Street, I met her kids Charlotte and Aidan for the first time. The place was packed with parents and their children, including some of Clinton’s school-mom friends. Charlotte had organized some sort of clever game and made herself the leader with a few other kids walking in line behind her, weaving under and around the ropes and stanchions. She was wearing red glasses that had slid down her nose, and when she looked up over the top of them, you could see her future: like she can’t wait to be 45 years old and in charge of stuff. She’s not just a chip off the old block — she’s a chip off the old block who herself is a chip off the old block.
  “What a kid!” I said to Hillary Clinton on the phone one morning. “She really is a fun, curious little person, isn’t she? We just have the best time with her,” she replied. Nick Merrill, Hillary’s longtime aide, told me that the grandchildren are “the center of Hillary’s universe,” that they “provide a normalcy that’s hard to get if you’re Hillary Clinton otherwise.” Said Hillary, “If we’ve got even an hour, we’ll stop by and see them, read to them, play with them, maybe even help put them to bed and then go on to our evening activities.”
  “Can you imagine what it’s like to see Bill and Hillary babysitting a 3-year-old and a 5-year-old?,” said Merrill.
  It’s hard to know whether it’s conscious or deeply sublimated, but Chelsea does not talk all that much about her father. Indeed, she gives her mother most of the credit for instilling in her all the values she is rightly so proud of. She talks rhapsodically about Bill’s mother, Virginia, with whom she spent a lot of weekends in Arkansas when she was a little girl. “She had a cardboard cutout of Elvis in her house,” Chelsea told me late one night as we were driving from Athens to Atlanta. “Every Saturday, she would have a Scotch-and-soda, only one, at five o’clock, and then she would make dinner and we always had homemade macaroni and cheese, stewed tomatoes, and either chicken or fish. And on special occasions she would bake a chocolate cake, and then we would watch — truly, every Saturday night that I stayed with her — a different Elvis movie. And there are 50 of them. That’s just what we diiid. And then we would go to church the next morning.”
  One afternoon in early June, I visited Chelsea at the Clinton Foundation HQ in midtown on a day when she was recording the podcast she does with her father, though he wasn’t around. The former president and the former secretary of State were at a meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative Action Network on “Post-Disaster Recovery in the U.S. Virgin Islands,” and the offices were quiet because the entire CGI team was also away at the meeting.
  Chelsea was doing an interview with Kurt Kelly, the owner of the Stonewall Inn, as Gay Pride was a few weeks away (She attended the 50th-anniversary celebration at Stonewall on the Friday of Pride Weekend and was photographed hanging out with Lady Gaga and Donatella Versace). Chelsea may be the least-vain celebrity I’ve ever met, but she is always put together. On this day, not so much: She was wearing a long blue cotton sack dress and a pair of beat-up old sneakers with no socks. Long straight hair, zero makeup, and glasses: magenta frames, as nerdy as they come. I almost didn’t recognize her.
  Kelly arrived, and we all piled into a small room filled with recording equipment and her podcast producers. Kelly was nervous at first, intimidated to the point of freezing up. “My mind is a little overwhelmed,” he said. “There are so many stories.” Clinton said, in the sweetest way imaginable, “And I want to hear them allll, so you can talk for as long as you want.”
  When the interview was over, I wandered around the offices with Lurie. There was unusual, exotic art on nearly every wall, all of it gathered during President Clinton’s travels to every corner of the globe. Later, I talked to Maura Pally, who, like Lurie, interned in Hillary’s office when she was First Lady. She has been working at the Clinton Foundation for six years, now as the executive vice-president. Pally has particular insight into how Chelsea works with her father at the foundation. “They speak each other’s language so clearly, so they have a shorthand with each other,” she said. “But also she is the one person who doesn’t hesitate to challenge him and correct him on things. You know, if he is talking about something, which of course is always very factually driven and statistics driven, Chelsea will be like, ‘Actually, Dad, you’re wrong. Here is the correct factoid.’ And he’ll be like, ‘Yup … you were right. That’s my daughter. Has more degrees than me and Hillary combined and is smarter than the two of us combined.’ He doesn’t really have that banter with anybody else.”
  The foundation has always had a complicated relationship to Clintonian political power, but since Hillary lost the election, the organization has been struggling to find its footing. The Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting ended in the run-up to 2016, after 12 years. “We had accomplished what we had set out to do,” Pally said, referring to its goal of making power-broker conferences more about action and less about schmoozing, “and frankly, we knew that would be very challenging, in a hyperpolitical environment, to have heads of states and CEOs come to a Clinton stage to focus on issues.” The foundation now does targeted disaster relief and runs a program for college students, among other initiatives, with which Chelsea is deeply involved. It has also focused its philanthropic efforts on issues like climate-smart agricultural practices in Africa, the opioid epidemic, and Too Small to Fail, an early-childhood program that Chelsea and her mother launched together when the secretary joined.
  From talking with Clinton Foundation folks, I got the sense that Chelsea has helped change things at the organization through sheer force of personality. And among the cache of Clinton-related emails published via WikiLeaks was a series in which it was clear that Chelsea had been the driving force behind severing the foundation’s ties with Teneo, the consulting organization run by Bill Clinton’s friend (and infamous “buckraker”) Doug Band.
  When I asked Pally if Hillary’s run and subsequent loss had changed the organization in ways that have been disappointing, she said, “Do you have 12 hours?,” and let out an exasperated laugh. “I think honestly what really impacted us was the complete and utter political attacks and lies that came at us just relentlessly. We became a political punching bag, and I think in hindsight people look back and say, ‘Oh yeah, of course that wasn’t true.’ ” Still, for Chelsea, the net effect has been one of reassessment. She must reconstitute this part of her professional life, too.

  Getting Chelsea Clinton to divulge her feelings about her mother’s losing the election turned out to be a fool’s errand. (As one person in the Clinton orbit said to me about Hillary, and it is also true about Chelsea, “Feelings are not the immediate destination in any conversation.”) I thought I could ladder her up to feelings by confessing my own trauma and subsequent anxiety during and after that Tuesday night in November. Nice try. “For me, what’s traumatic is what’s happened since. As sad as I was on Election Night for my mom, I’m far sadder for our country,” she said. What followed was a long list: demonizing Mexicans, white-nationalist rhetoric, family separation, anti-choice justices.
  A person who worked on Hillary’s campaign told me it’s not just Chelsea who has a hard time talking about Election Night: “We all failed to process that day in a lot of ways. The other thing is — and this is purely a guess — if I were Chelsea Clinton, I would have felt both enormous sadness for her mom and the country but also a sense of relief that probably has some guilt attached to it.” One person close to the Clintons said to me, “The whole family will never fully recover from this.”
  A week after I first asked Chelsea about Election Night, I brought it up again and got nowhere in the feelings department, but I did get this oddly detached response: “I was still breastfeeding. Aidan was not even 5 months old. We went and we voted, and then I spent time with our kids and spent a lot of time breastfeeding and pumping, because that’s what women do when we’re committed to having that relationship with our babies. And then I took my kids to the hotel and we’re with my parents and we got the kids ready for bed and then I think my friend Jen actually, literally brought the kids home and helped get them to bed. We were with my mom, and I pumped a lot on and off for the rest of the night.”
  Aside from putting their heads down and getting right back to work, as is their way, one of the things mother and daughter did was write together — something they would not have had time to do if Hillary had been president. First, Chelsea’s publisher persuaded them to do a children’s book together, Grandma’s Gardens, which comes out next year, which got everyone thinking about doing something weightier. The Book of Gutsy Women, which came out on October 1, is essentially a collection of essays — some written by Chelsea, some by Hillary, and some jointly — about women who have inspired them both: Geraldine Ferraro, Harriet Tubman, Helen Keller. “We wrote, actually, more than 200 essays, which we cut in half,” said Hillary. “It was really painful.” She gets excited talking about their editorial choices. “I write about the first famous woman I ever saw in person … who was Maria Tallchief, the Native American prima ballerina,” she said. “And Chelsea talks about how she got to meet her later. We both learned a lot. I mean, obviously it’s easier to write alone, but its very stimulating to write with someone else. It was, as we say, an iterative process.”
  Lurie told me the collaboration was fascinating to watch. “They write so differently. Hillary still writes and edits in longhand, while Chelsea believes that Microsoft Word is your friend.” So they wound up bouncing drafts back and forth to each other via email.
  This fall, the two embarked on a joint book tour. It has not been without controversy: Last week, reports circulated that Hillary had been contemplating jumping into the 2020 race, and on Tucker Carlson’s show, her former aide Philippe Reines stoked the flames by saying that while it was unlikely, she had not closed the door on the possibility. That was on top of the hot water she had gotten into for reportedly saying the candidate Tulsi Gabbard was being groomed by the Russians. She’d actually said “Republicans,” not Russians (although she said Gabbard is “the favorite of the Russians”), but by the time that was cleared up, a Clinton outrage cycle on Twitter had been through all of its predictable and exhausting life phases.
  But before all that, there was the launch, when Hillary and Chelsea finished a long, lively talk with Billie Jean King on the stage of the Kings Theatre on Flatbush Avenue. It was late for a Tuesday night, the first day of October, the end of Rosh Hashanah. When I’d arrived a couple of hours earlier, the street out front was thrumming with the kind of energy one associates with Times Square in the ’80s. There was the joyful boom-box throb of Flatbush, sure, but also a sizable group of angry Haitian protesters who were still convinced that the Clinton Foundation had mishandled funds meant for the recovery from the 2010 earthquake. Because of the protesters, there was also a sizable police presence, some with dogs, lending a sort of free-floating unease to the scene. But the crowd inside the theater leaned toward the genteel stroller people of the increasingly white, liberal neighborhoods that surround Prospect Park. As the program came to an end, hundreds of them, already standing for a lusty ovation, surged toward the stage instead of the exits.
  I noticed Chelsea’s husband in the very center of the throng, smiling and taking pictures of his wife and mother-in-law. When Hillary — who had seemed cranky before the event but was now buoyant, reaching out to grab hands and soak in the adoration — pulled back from the edge of the stage in her burgundy pantsuit and waved good-bye, the crowd erupted into cheers and whistles, some shouting, “I love you!” As the last remaining stalwarts of Hillaryland (Huma!) headed backstage, everyone looked a little stunned, even emotional.
  Chelsea’s staff was making arrangements to whisk her back to Manhattan to her son Jasper, now 14 weeks old. Meanwhile, in a hallway amid the backstage hubbub, Hillary was telling King the story about “the only time I ever won a trophy” as a not very good tennis player. It was a mixed-doubles match at a tournament at a Fayetteville, Arkansas, country club. When she and her partner were presented with one trophy (“No, no, no!,” says BJK), Hillary was struck by the fact that the little golden plastic male tennis player on top of the trophy was several inches larger than the female player. “Of course, I have that trophy!,” said Hillary, laughing that deep, gusty laugh of hers. “I said to my partner, the guy, ‘You have to let me have this trophy, because this is such a statement.’ ”
  Eventually, I found Chelsea in a dressing room and we sat and talked for a few minutes. She was running late. “I have to go take this picture with my mom, and then I have to go home and pump.” I asked Chelsea — the pro, an expert in answering nosy questions with a long, thoughtful answer that sometimes doesn’t actually answer the question — what it’s like doing interviews with her mother. This was the first time I had ever seen her screen freeze up. She stared at me with her big blue eyes and blinked a couple of times. “It’s fun.” There were a few more awkward seconds. “I love working with my mom.” Blink, blink. “It’s fun.”
  Maybe she was just rushed and tired, but it’s hard not to think that maybe it isn’t so, you know, fun. Chelsea and Hillary had begun their media blitz for Gutsy Women just a few days before, right after Nancy Pelosi announced that the House was, at long last, launching an impeachment inquiry. Which meant that every interview (CBS This Morning, Good Morning America, The View, The Late Show With Stephen Colbert) was front-loaded with Important Questions for Hillary — arguably the world’s foremost living expert on the subject, having been on the Nixon impeachment-inquiry staff in 1974 and married to the only president to have been impeached in the past 150 years. Their joint interviews about the book they co-authored were hijacked by the news, and here was Chelsea, cast once again as the dutiful daughter, listening respectfully.

  The Ford Foundation on East 43rd Street is a deeply familiar yet utterly obscure structure that is easy to walk right past, because from almost every angle it looks like an impenetrable fortress. It is just a block from the United Nations, and I can’t help but think about the time, ten years ago, when I spent a couple of days following then–Secretary of State Hillary Clinton through her appointments during the U.N. General Assembly — the first and last time I had a reason to go to the U.N. It felt both rarefied and prosaic, teeming with people who spend their days trying to redraw the blueprint for how life could — should — be lived, if only everyone else would wake up and cooperate. Unlike the rest of us, these folks, Hillary especially, seemed to have an extra strand in their DNA, another gear the rest of us lack, that allows them to tolerate the drudgery and sacrifice, not to mention the endless disappointment and thanklessness, of trying to make the world a better place.
  I was always mystified by the fact that so many of my friends had so many misgivings about Hillary. But on that long spring book tour, I came up with a theory: Chelsea, like her mother, makes people feel guilty, almost ashamed, that they’re not doing enough. That unless you are pitching in and helping and doing good — almost constantly — you are not measuring up. It’s not that these people necessarily dislike Hillary, I realized; at least for some of them, it’s that they don’t like the way Hillary makes them feel about themselves. I caught a whiff of this in Brooklyn at the Kings Theatre, when, toward the end, Hillary said, “We hope that these stories don’t just end with admiring those we profile but lead people to think about what each of you can do in some area that’s important to you. And only you can know what that might be.” In other words: Don’t just enjoy this! It must lead you to discover a sense of purpose! Now imagine if you were that person’s only child.
  I was meeting Chelsea Clinton this morning at the Ford Foundation for a gathering of Girl Scouts young and old. As it happens — and this will probably come as no surprise — Chelsea was a Girl Scout. So was her mother. So was Condoleezza Rice. Indeed, 72 percent of all female senators were Girl Scouts, and about 60 percent of the women in the House were once part of a troop.
  The Clinton Foundation had partnered with the Girl Scouts to host an event on the importance of civics education: Chelsea was running a panel that included New York Attorney General Letitia James; Laura Dove, the Republican secretary of the U.S. Senate; Dr. Emma Humphries, chief education officer for iCivics; and Lauren Hoagland, a Gold Award Girl Scout from Birmingham, Alabama, who had just turned 18.
  As the discussion was winding down, Chelsea turned to questions written on note cards from the Girl Scouts in the audience. “There’s a question I feel obligated to ask because it’s come up quite frequently, and I think this is a very succinct expression of it: ‘How can we ask our girls to be brave and engaged when they see women candidates or other women who are in powerful positions treated badly or unfairly?’ ” The resonance of Hillary Clinton’s daughter reading this question is lost on no one. James gave a great little speech about why these young girls must run for office. Humphries told a sharp, funny mean-girls story about a friend saying horrible things about her when she was their age and the invaluable three-word piece of advice she got from a teacher: “Consider the source.” Then Hoagland, the 18-year-old, who had been getting the biggest applause lines all morning, said, “Powerful women have always turned heads. They’ve always made people a little bit confused. All of you will turn some heads. You’re going to get people confused as to why you care … It’s a choice to be brave.”
  “Amen!,” said Chelsea.
  Afterward, Lurie and I worked our way through the packed reception room — filled with women and girls laughing and talking, a sound so distinct it ought to be a ringtone — and headed back into the greenroom and found Chelsea, then still hugely pregnant, sitting on a sofa, eating a muffin. The room was decorated with beautifully framed photographs of those who had appeared at the Ford Foundation for one reason or another. Above Chelsea’s head was a giant photograph of her father. Her other staffers, Joy and Sara, turned up, and there was a lot of animated chitchat about how moving the program was, how well-organized the event was. “The Girl Scouts are on it,” said Lurie. “Right?,” said Clinton. “It’s not just a metaphor!” And then, as she absentmindedly gathered her things to head off, she said to no one in particular, “Was anyone sitting near Lauren’s mom? She must be beaming. She must be so proud of her.”
  *This story has been updated to reflect that Clinton’s third child was born in July.
  *This article appears in the October 28, 2019, issue of New York Magazine. Subscribe Now!

• New York Times - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/16/nyregion/chelsea-clinton-congress.html

  Chelsea Clinton Says She Won’t Run for Congress in 2020
  In her first public comments since Representative Nita Lowey announced her retirement, Ms. Clinton said she was not considering running to replace her.

  Appearing on “The View,” Chelsea Clinton did not rule out a future run for office, but said that she was not interested in running to replace Representative Nita Lowey.
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  By Vivian Wang
  Oct. 16, 2019

  Chelsea Clinton won’t be following in her parents’ political footsteps just yet.
  Ms. Clinton, the daughter of Bill and Hillary Clinton, said on Wednesday that she was not running for Congress next year, ending brief but intense speculation that she would seek to extend her family’s political dynasty.
  In an interview on “The View,” Ms. Clinton said she was “not considering” a bid to replace Representative Nita Lowey of New York, a fellow Democrat who said last week that she would not seek re-election in 2020.
  Ms. Clinton, the daughter of a president and a United States senator, had never explicitly expressed interest in the seat, but she said in an interview last year that she would weigh running for office “if someone were to step down or retire.” After Ms. Lowey’s announcement, the idea of Ms. Clinton entering the race seemed a viable possibility, because Ms. Lowey represents much of Westchester and Rockland Counties, north of New York City, where Ms. Clinton’s parents live and where the Clintons remain popular.
  Ms. Clinton herself does not live in the district, but under United States Constitution, members of Congress must live only in the state they represent, not the specific district.
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  For days, representatives for Ms. Clinton did not answer questions about the former first daughter’s plans, further fueling speculation. Her remarks on Wednesday were her first comments on the topic.
  Ms. Clinton’s pronouncement clearly disappointed some audience members on the television program. When one of the show’s hosts, Whoopi Goldberg, asked whether Ms. Clinton would run, the studio broke out in applause. When Ms. Clinton said no, one host exclaimed, “No! Why not?”

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  Ms. Clinton said she understood the interest.
  “Someone has asked me some version of this question for literally as long as I can remember,” she said.
  “Abby’s nodding,” she added, referring to Abby Huntsman, another co-host, whose father, Jon Huntsman Jr., served as the Republican governor of Utah and the ambassador to Russia under President Trump.
  But, she continued, “I think it’s a question that shouldn’t just be asked of someone whose last name is Clinton or Huntsman. It’s a question we should be asking kids: ‘Do you think about running for office one day?’ Young people, women.”
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  Ms. Clinton also noted that she had recently given birth to her third child.
  Her announcement likely came as a relief to the other candidates vying to replace Ms. Lowey, who was first elected in 1988, and who rose to become the first woman to lead the powerful House Appropriations Committee.
  They include Mondaire Jones, a lawyer who had declared a primary challenge to Ms. Lowey before she announced her retirement, and Assemblyman David Buchwald, a four-term Democrat who entered the race after Ms. Lowey’s announcement. State Senator David Carlucci has also expressed interest.
  On the Republican side, Rob Astorino, a former candidate for governor, is also said to be considering a bid. The district is considered safely Democratic, but Mr. Astorino spent eight years as county executive of Westchester.
  In the days before Ms. Clinton broke her silence on Wednesday, the possibility of another Clinton candidacy had inspired a full gamut of reaction, from excitement to revulsion.
  Even on “The View,” the co-hosts responded differently. While one host, Sunny Hostin, seemed crestfallen, another, Meghan McCain — the daughter of the former Republican senator and presidential candidate John McCain — had a milder reaction. “There’s some disappointed people in the audience,” she said, “but it’s O.K.”

  Chelsea Clinton shuts down rumors she's considering running for Congress: "I'm not considering running for Congresswoman Lowey's seat." https://t.co/ISJ6MtD8Qs pic.twitter.com/QOY87nxlUK
  — The View (@TheView) October 16, 2019
  But in closing the door on a run for office next year, Ms. Clinton did not entirely rule out a future one.
  “One day you might,” Ms. Huntsman said.
  “Maybe,” Ms. Clinton replied. “Maybe. But not now.”

• The Salt Lake Tribune - https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2019/10/17/chelsea-clinton-says-shes/

  Chelsea Clinton says she’s asked constantly about running for office, encourages people to also ask kids not named ‘Clinton or Huntsman’

  (Evan Agostini | Invision via AP, file) Author Chelsea Clinton speaks at the 30th annual GLAAD Media Awards at the New York Hilton Midtown on Saturday, May 4, 2019, in New York.

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  Published: October 17
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  Chelsea Clinton won’t be following in her parents’ political footsteps just yet.
  Clinton, the daughter of Bill and Hillary Clinton, said on Wednesday that she was not running for Congress next year, ending brief but intense speculation that she would seek to extend her family’s political dynasty.
  In an interview on “The View,” Chelsea Clinton said she was “not considering” a bid to replace Rep. Nita Lowey of New York, a fellow Democrat who said last week that she would not seek reelection in 2020.

  Clinton, the daughter of a president and a U.S. senator, had never explicitly expressed interest in the seat, but she said in an interview last year that she would weigh running for office “if someone were to step down or retire.” After Lowey’s announcement, the idea of Clinton entering the race seemed a viable possibility, because Lowey represents much of Westchester and Rockland counties, north of New York City, where Clinton’s parents live and where the Clintons remain popular.
  Clinton herself does not live in the district, but under the U.S. Constitution, a member of Congress must live only in the state they seek to represent, not the specific district.
  For days, representatives for Clinton did not answer questions about the former first daughter’s plans, further fueling speculation. Her remarks on Wednesday were her first comments on the topic.
  Clinton’s pronouncement clearly disappointed some audience members on the television program. When one of the show’s hosts, Whoopi Goldberg, asked whether Clinton would run, the studio broke out in applause. When Clinton said no, one host exclaimed, “No! Why not?”
  Clinton said she understood the interest.

  “Someone has asked me some version of this question for literally as long as I can remember,” she said.
  “Abby’s nodding,” she added, referring to Abby Huntsman, another co-host, whose father, Jon Huntsman Jr., served as the Republican governor of Utah and the ambassador to Russia under President Donald Trump.
  But, she continued, “I think it’s a question that shouldn’t just be asked of someone whose last name is Clinton or Huntsman. It’s a question we should be asking kids: ‘Do you think about running for office one day?’ Young people, women.”
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  Clinton also noted that she had recently given birth to her third child.
  Her announcement likely came as a relief to the other candidates vying to replace Lowey, who was first elected in 1988, and who rose to become the first woman to lead the powerful House Appropriations Committee.
  They include Mondaire Jones, a lawyer who had declared a primary challenge to Lowey before she announced her retirement, and Assemblyman David Buchwald, a four-term Democrat who entered the race after Lowey’s announcement. State Sen. David Carlucci has also expressed interest.

  On the Republican side, Rob Astorino, a former candidate for governor, is also said to be considering a bid. The district is considered safely Democratic, but Astorino spent eight years as county executive of Westchester.
  In the days before Clinton broke her silence on Wednesday, the possibility of another Clinton candidacy had inspired a full gamut of reaction, from excitement to revulsion.
  Even on “The View,” the co-hosts responded differently. While one host, Sunny Hostin, seemed crestfallen, another, Meghan McCain — the daughter of the former Republican senator and presidential candidate John McCain — had a milder reaction. “There’s some disappointed people in the audience,” she said, “but it’s OK.”
  But in closing the door on a run for office next year, Clinton did not entirely rule out a future one.
  “One day you might,” Huntsman said.
  “Maybe,” Clinton replied. “Maybe. But not now.”

  Editor’s Note: Abby Huntsman is the niece of Paul Huntsman, The Salt Lake Tribune’s owner and publisher.

• CBS - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hillary-rodham-clinton-chelsea-clinton-on-the-book-of-gutsy-women-president-trump-and-impeachment/

  Hillary Rodham Clinton & Chelsea Clinton on "Gutsy Women" and Trump

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  At the Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial in Manhattan, Hillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, look upon a 20th-century giant. "I think she was one of the greatest Americans in our history," Hillary told "Sunday Morning" host Jane Pauley.
  "She is a kind of transcendent figure over generations because of all that she did in her life," Chelsea said.

  The Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial in New York's Riverside Park. CBS News
  Hillary added, "I just find that depiction of her to be as I imagine her – thoughtfully listening, taking it all in."
  And at the New York Historical Society, they handled a racquet from the hands of tennis legend Billie Jean King. And they examined a century-old banner from the Women's Suffrage Movement. "I have one of these at my home," Hillary said. "I have it over the fireplace; I look at it every day."
  The mementos breathe life into a collection of stories called "The Book of Gutsy Women," co-authored by mother and daughter, and published by CBS' Simon & Schuster.
  "Women have been written out of history from the very beginning of recorded time," said Hillary. "And to a great extent they still are. This is a small contribution to the efforts to tell these stories."
  The collaboration between the 71- and 39-year-old was, at times, an intergenerational challenge. "I write longhand," said Hillary, "and then I use an app, and I send it to her."
  "So, this is what I would get," Chelsea demonstrated, showing her phone. "Although it's not so illegible, I could read it."

  From longhand, to app. CBS News
  "She laughs at me endlessly," said Chelsea's mom.
  Some of their earliest inspirations were familiar characters from books and TV, such as actress Donna Reed. "Donna Reed seemed like the perfect mother to me and my friends," said Hillary.
  And teen detective Nancy Drew. "Oh, I love Nancy Drew; I really looked up to her," Chelsea said. "It's the same way I felt about Meg Murry in 'A Wrinkle in Time.' All of these fictional heroines just meant so much to me."

  Simon & Schuster
  Among 103 real-life portraits are unsung heroes, and greats like Amelia Earhart and Harriet Tubman; and another first lady: "The reason I chose Betty Ford is. I remember as though it was yesterday," Hillary said. "My mother's best friend had breast cancer, a phrase that was never uttered. Nobody talked about breast cancer. And then a few years later, along comes Betty Ford who gets breast cancer as a first lady, and I remember, she's in the hospital room. She's obviously had her hair done – good for her! And because of her, breast cancer came out of the deep, dark shadows."
  But no one looms larger, for Hillary Clinton, than Eleanor Roosevelt: "When I ended up being first lady she was one of the people that most inspired me, because of how she tried to keep thinking about those who were left out, left behind, marginalized."
  Pauley said, "You write about discovering that her husband had had an affair with his secretary. This was devastating, and she offers Franklin a divorce, which he rejects. And you write, 'She decided to stay in the marriage parenthetically, which can be, as I know well, a gutsy decision.' You had to discuss with your daughter putting that in [the book]. What did you say?"
  "Well, part of the reason that I admire Eleanor Roosevelt is the way she handled that happening to her," said Hillary. "And I say, look, when something happens in your marriage, as I know well, it can be gutsy to leave, it can be gutsy to stay. I felt like I had learned so much from her that I wanted to share that with the reader."
  And Chelsea's response? "It's my mom's story to tell. I've always felt that way."

  At the New York Historical Society: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Chelsea Clinton and Jane Pauley check out Billie Jean King's tennis racquet. CBS News
  And three years after the historic election of 2016, Hillary Clinton is still grappling with defeat.
  Pauley asked, "How are you doing now, and what are the metrics by which you know how you're doing on any given day?"
  "Personally I'm doing well, and having my grandchildren, and especially a new two-month old grandson has been a gift beyond measure," she said. "I feel very blessed. I feel good.
  "But I can't deny that a big part of me cares deeply about what's happening in the country, and what I fear is the damage that's being done to our future, the damage being done to our values, our institutions, and try to think of ways that I can help those who are on the front lines of the fight."
  Pauley said, "Your name doesn't come up much on any campaign, except for Donald Trump's – 'Lock her up' is still a big, popular line."
  "I believe he knows he's an illegitimate president," said Hillary. "He knows. He knows that there were a bunch of different reasons why the election turned out the way it did. And I take full responsibility for those parts of it that I should. But hey, it was like applying for a job and getting 66 million letters of recommendation, and losing to a corrupt human tornado. And so, I know that he knows that this wasn't on the level. I don't know that we'll ever know everything that happened.
  "But clearly, we know a lot, and are learning more every day. And history will probably sort it all out. So of course, he's obsessed with me. And I believe that it's a guilty conscience (insomuch as he has a conscience)."

  And of course, given the events of the past week, now the question is, how will it end, after Speaker Nancy Pelosi's announcement Tuesday that a formal impeachment inquiry would begin? ["The president must be held accountable; no one is above the law," Pelosi said.]
  This is familiar territory for Hillary Clinton.
  In 1974, Hillary Rodham was a young lawyer on the House Judiciary Committee staff looking into the impeachment of President Richard Nixon.

  In 1974 Hillary Rodham was a staff attorney on the House Judiciary Committee investigating President Richard Nixon. CBS News
  And in 1998, Hillary Rodham Clinton experienced impeachment firsthand.
  Pauley asked, "As first lady in the Clinton administration, what is your view today on Donald Trump's prospects for impeachment?"
  "Given this latest revelation, which is such a blatant effort to use his presidential position to advance his personal and political interests, there should be an impeachment inquiry opened," said Clinton. "And I don't care who you're for in the Democratic primary or whether you're a Republican, when the president of the United States, who has taken an oath to protect and defend the Constitution – and by that, defend the American people and their interests – uses his position to in effect extort a foreign government for his own political purposes, I think that is very much what the founders worried about in 'high crimes and misdemeanors.'"
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  Pauley asked, "So what could happen if there's another four years of the Trump administration?"
  "I don't accept that. I don't believe that will happen," Hillary replied. "I believe that there were many funny things that happened in my election that will not happen again. And I'm hoping that both the public and press understand the way that Trump plays his game."
  Back at the Eleanor Roosevelt memorial, Hillary pondered, "She worked really hard to become the person she became."
  The same might be said for Hillary Rodham Clinton, who like Eleanor Roosevelt is both loved and loathed, but by any measure a gutsy woman.

  Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton, co-authors of "The Book of Gutsy Women." CBS News
  Pauley asked Chelsea about her mother's presence in a "book of gutsy women": "You wrote a book with your mother. So, Hillary Clinton's name is on the front of the book. But as a portrait of gutsy women, she's not in the book – except maybe between every line?"
  "I think that's very accurate," Chelsea smiled. "I just got chills when you said that, Jane, because I couldn't imagine any moment of my life without my mom. And I'm so grateful not only that she's my role model, but that she's my mom, because my kids are going to grow up in a world that I believe is immeasurably better for her gutsiness."
  READ AN EXCERPT: "The Book of Gutsy Women" by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton

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  QOTE:
  "well-researched, and historically significant." Hesse went on to comment: "The pages are glossy, the chapters are short and the women inside are gutsy. This is the kind of book that seems perfect for very specific audiences, and those audiences are: stepmoms searching for books to help them bond with their spouse's daughters. Parents looking to supplement a favorite teacher's classroom library. Thirty-four-year-old women who are about to spend the holidays with their future mothers-in-law and still don't have a Christmas gift."

  Hillary Clinton is the one that got away. But isn’t going away.

  Hillary and Chelsea Clinton pose with their new “The Book of Gutsy Women” in New York on Thursday. They brought their book tour to Washington’s Lisner Auditorium on Friday. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

  By
  Monica Hesse
  Columnist
  Oct. 6, 2019 at 6:00 p.m. GMT+8
  Hillary Clinton is suddenly everywhere these days, except for where roughly 66 million Americans wish she were, which is the White House.
  She’s on “The View.” She’s on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.” She told “Good Morning America” that the bravest thing she’d ever done was to stay in her marriage; she told People magazine that voters should “get over it” — “it” being Joe Biden’s handsiness with women. Actually, that’s not quite what she said — she was making a point about the need to defeat President Trump — but that was the interpretation that became engraved in the news cycle because, well, it seemed like the kind of tone-deaf thing she might say?
  She went to Venice for a famous art festival, and while she was at that art festival she performed in an installation, and for that installation she sat behind a re-creation of the Oval Office’s Resolute Desk, and while sitting at the desk, wearing a fancy caftan and symbolically acknowledging the dumbest whataboutism to emerge from the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton read her emails.
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  She has tweeted. She has clapped back. Rudy Giuliani claimed that Joe Biden hadn’t been properly vetted because he was protected by the Clintons. “Yes,” Clinton dryly replied. “I am famously underscrutinized.”
  And she’s right, of course, my God, it’s hard to think of another human whom we so love to hate and so hate to love, and can’t get rid of, and then fiercely miss as soon as we do.
  Most recently, on Friday night, she was in Washington to promote a new book — her second book and her third national tour since losing to Trump three years ago.
  So there we were — again — buying an expensive ticket — again — to listen to Hillary Clinton — again — and think about what she meant to us. Or means. Or will mean, a decade from now when we’re still stuck in whatever codependent relationship this is.

  “I am crying,” a young woman informed her seat mate as Clinton walked onstage to a standing ovation and sat in a cushioned chair at George Washington University’s Lisner Auditorium. The young woman repeated, as if her wet face were not self-evident: “I am crying.”
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  Lissa Muscatine, the evening’s moderator, settled in next to Clinton and her daughter and co-author, Chelsea, also on the tour. Muscatine — a longtime Clinton speechwriter and co-owner of Politics and Prose bookstore, which helped organize the event — waited until the tearful applause died down, and then, facing the audience, revved it back up again: “Is there a gutsier woman than Hillary Rodham Clinton?”
  "Gutsy Women." Yes! This is the title of the new book! A dutiful periwinkle brick. The pages are glossy, the chapters are short and the women inside are gutsy. This is the kind of book that seems perfect for very specific audiences, and those audiences are: stepmoms searching for books to help them bond with their spouse's daughters. Parents looking to supplement a favorite teacher's classroom library. Thirty-four-year-old women who are about to spend the holidays with their future mothers-in-law and still don't have a Christmas gift.

  It is very easy to picture this book being unwrapped. It’s harder to picture this book being read, cover to cover, with a sense of delight. Mostly, it feels like a laborious collection of Wikipedia entries on women and girls you’ve already heard of — Helen Keller, Harriet Tubman, Anne Frank — plus a few you might not have, like Somali obstetrician Hawa Abdi or “Sesame Street” creator Joan Ganz Cooney.
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  There’s nothing particularly inspired about the idea or execution; there’s nothing wrong with it either. Hillary and Chelsea describe it as an “ongoing conversation” between the two of them, a manifestation of Sally Ride’s idea that sharing women’s stories is important because “you can’t be what you can’t see.” This book is a compendium of all the women you might like to see and be, organized into categories: inventors, healers, storytellers, etc.
  Mother and daughter have done an admirable job of showcasing not only diverse professions but also diverse beliefs, backgrounds, races and sexual orientations. Danica Roem, the first openly transgender person to be elected and serve in a state legislature, gets an entry. So does Olympian Caster Semenya, whose biology has been the subject of prurient scrutiny. Their inclusion is important: quiet affirmations that “being a woman” can look all kinds of different ways.

  I want to love this book.
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  And that, of course, is how millions of readers will know that Hillary Clinton wrote it. Because holding it in my hands, this book, which is well-researched, and historically significant, and which represents everything I hold dear, a book that seems thoughtful and prepared, a book that probably had a plan for campaign finance reform and climate change, and couldn’t help that its horndog husband abused his power with an intern more than 20 years ago (but should really stop complicitly brushing off the offense now) — holding this book in my hands, I cannot tell how much I actually love it, and how much I just desperately, desperately wish I did.
  What more can we possibly want from this woman?

  And by woman, I mean, book?
  Here are some things Hillary and Chelsea told us onstage:
  Hillary still writes everything longhand, which drove Chelsea crazy as a collaborating author: “I thought surely she would have to understand why track changes are important.”
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  Hillary admires teen environmental activist Greta Thunberg because she’s been criticized by “everyone from Donald Trump to Vladi­mir Putin, so you know she’s doing something right.”
  Chelsea, as a little girl, once wrote a letter to President Ronald Reagan begging him not to visit a Nazi cemetery because she’d learned via “The Sound of Music” that Nazis were bad. She was devastated not to get a response; later, as first lady, Hillary started an initiative to make sure children who wrote the White House would always get responses.

  Hillary wanted to write this book partly because she wanted to make sure the country didn’t lose any ground it had gained for women: “We’re not giving up, we’re not going back, we’re not going to let ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ happen.”
  An audience-submitted question from someone named Alex asked Hillary what she did whenever she was “not feeling her gutsiest.”
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  “P.S.” Muscatine said, reading Alex’s note aloud. “I love you.”
  Hillary laughed. When she’s not feeling gutsy, “I think about you, Alex.” She was kidding. But, she explained, she did think about the gutsy women and men who inspired her.
  Hillary believes that “Trump knows he’s an illegitimate president.” She also believes that “impeachment is the appropriate remedy. I am all in favor of what the House is doing. . . . This president has to be held to account.”

  The audience gobbled it all up. The audience, more women than men, more young than old (it was a college campus), snorted it up, as one snorts the heady drug of the alternate reality you all thought would come to pass.
  "I love Hillary," says Sarah Harig, an audience member I talked to after the event. She'd shown up four hours before the reading to ensure good seats.
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  “I love Hillary,” adds Harig’s friend Casey Archer.
  “She loves Hillary,” says Kartic Padmanabhan, pointing to his 9-year-old, whom he had brought along for a father-daughter date.
  “We love Hillary,” says Laura Hennessey, nodding to her companion Mary Thornton. “We love the relationship she has with her daughter.”

  Thornton is quiet for a moment, and then confesses it’s because the question I’d asked her, Why are you here?, had made her choke up.
  “She should be president,” Thornton says finally. “The hatred directed toward her is unimaginable, and she should be president.”
  “I love Hillary,” says a woman named Rose who won’t give me her last name for reasons that soon become apparent. “I didn’t, but I do, but I was frustrated by her, but now . . .”
  Rose, no last name, was so frustrated by Hillary that she didn’t vote for her. She wrote someone else in. It was meant to be a protest. She thought Hillary had the election in the bag. She feels terrible. She doesn’t quite remember, now, what quality seemed so bad about Hillary, at least not compared with Donald Trump, that she felt the need to protest it.
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  Here is what I think many people want from Hillary.
  I think they want to live in a world in which they are allowed to love Hillary but be exasperated by her comments on Joe Biden. Allowed to protest her. Allowed to become justifiably incensed by her positions — too liberal? too conservative? — because, in this alternate reality, they are weighty policies made by the president of the United States, rather than inconsequential comments made by a retired politician who is hawking another book.
  I think they want to be able to say that Hillary wasn’t perfect. I think they want to be able to talk about her in the complicated way she deserves to be talked about, rather than defensively pretend she’s a saint merely because the people attacking her are so rabidly crazy and sexist.
  It would be lovely, just lovely, if instead of being a gutsy woman, Hillary was just a boring president.
  It would be lovely if we could look at her as a human instead of a reminder of messy marriages and messy times and the limits of our own forgiveness and the repercussions of letting the perfect be the enemy of the sane.
  Every time Hillary Clinton makes another public appearance, she is giving us a gift. The gift is not her mediocre book. The gift is not magnetic wit. The gift is all her complications. The gift is being able to tell her to go away while simultaneously wishing she would never leave.
  Monica Hesse is a columnist writing about gender and its impact on society. For more visit wapo.st/hesse.

QUOTE:
"inspiring stories."
Clinton, Chelsea
She Persisted Around the World
Illustrated by Alexandra Boiger
Philomel Books, 2018, pp32, 12.99 [pounds sterling]
978 0 52551 699 6
Following her earlier book about 13 American women, Chelsea Clinton has widened her approach. Some are well-known, but others were a revelation to your reviewer. For example Wangari Maatthai, the first female doctor and professor at the University of Nairobi, led a movement to plant 50 million trees and protect the environment, eventually winning the Nobel Peace Prize, as did Leymah Gbowee, trauma counsellor, for her work in helping to end the war in Liberia. All were, or are, women who were told they could not do what they wanted to do, but 'She persisted', and those two words are highlighted in bold on each of the double page spreads. ('Nevertheless, she persisted', as used by Mitch McConnell in the US Senate in an attempt to silence Senator Elizabeth McGovern, has become a hashtag and a slogan on T-shirts, and is now used in a much more positive sense than was originally intended.)
Chelsea Clinton points out the challenges that some girls have to face, especially in countries where it's hard to get an education and they may need the permission of a man to leave the house. She tells the histories of these women who had bigger dreams in a few well-chosen words, and the illustrations show each person doing what they wanted to do in pastel colours. All successfully moved out of the sphere in which they were supposed to operate, and these are inspiring stories.
Diana Barnes

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Barnes, Diana. "Clinton, Chelsea: She Persisted Around the World." School Librarian, Autumn 2018, p. 178. Gale General OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A555410073/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=d79192b0. Accessed 9 Nov. 2019.
Gale Document Number: GALE|A555410073

Quote:
sure bet for elementary school libraries."

CLINTON, Chelsea. Don't Let Them Disappear. illus. by Gianna Marino. 40p. Philomel. Apr. 2019. Tr $17.99. ISBN 9780525514329. POP
PreS-Gr 2--Clinton's latest picture book is an ode to 12 animal species in danger of extinction. Those familiar with her past works will recognize the format: a collection of factual blurbs rather than one long narrative. A spread is devoted to each animal, always accompanied by a short explanatory paragraph. The text may be sparse, but there is not one wasted word. Readers will enjoy engaging with fun facts and vocabulary for animal groups (an "embarrassment" of giant pandas or a "crash" of rhinos, for example). In addition to the informational paragraph, bullet points are included for each animal which state its endangerment status, the reason for that status, and its geographic location. Marino's gouache illustrations are accurate yet whimsical and convey the personality of each animal. This book will get a lot of traction as a science or social studies curriculum addition and does not need to be read in order to be useful as a learning tool. It will also be an appealing cover-to-cover read for animal lovers. Useful endnotes include an explanation of the human-made reasons some animals are in danger of disappearing, as well as action items for those who want to do more to save them. VERDICT A sure bet for elementary school libraries.--Lindsay Jensen, Nashville Public Library
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Jensen, Lindsay. "CLINTON, Chelsea. Don't Let Them Disappear." School Library Journal, May 2019, p. 112. Gale General OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A584328944/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=7d5b1eec. Accessed 9 Nov. 2019.
Gale Document Number: GALE|A584328944

QUOTE:
"The failure to provide any sources for further information should the book manage to pique readers' interests simply exacerbates the problem. Pretty but substance-free--which is probably not how any of this book's subjects would like to be remembered."

Clinton, Chelsea SHE PERSISTED Philomel (Children's Informational) $17.99 5, 30 ISBN: 978-1-5247-4172-3
Inspired by Sen. Elizabeth Warren's stand against the appointment of Sen. Jeff Sessions as U.S. attorney general--and titled for Sen. Mitch McConnell's stifling of same--glancing introductions to 13 American women who "persisted."Among the figures relatively familiar to the audience are Harriet Tubman, Helen Keller, and Ruby Bridges; among the more obscure are union organizer Clara Lemlich, physician Virginia Apgar, and Olympian Florence Griffith Joyner. Sonia Sotomayor and Oprah Winfrey are two readers may already have some consciousness of. The women have clearly been carefully selected to represent American diversity, although there are significant gaps--there are no Asian-American women, for instance--and the extreme brevity of the coverage leads to reductivism and erasure: Osage dancer Maria Tallchief is identified only as "Native American," and lesbian Sally Ride's sexual orientation is elided completely. Clinton's prose is almost bloodless, running to such uninspiring lines as, about Margaret Chase Smith, "she persisted in championing women's rights and more opportunities for women in the military, standing up for free speech and supporting space exploration." Boiger does her best to compensate, creating airy watercolors full of movement for each double-page spread. Quotations are incorporated into illustrations--although the absence of dates and context leaves them unmoored. That's the overall feeling readers will get, as the uniformity of presentation and near-total lack of detail makes this overview so broad as to be ineffectual. The failure to provide any sources for further information should the book manage to pique readers' interests simply exacerbates the problem. Pretty but substance-free--which is probably not how any of this book's subjects would like to be remembered. (Informational picture book. 4-8)
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"Clinton, Chelsea: SHE PERSISTED." Kirkus Reviews, 1 June 2017. Gale General OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A493329357/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=e79a633b. Accessed 9 Nov. 2019.
Gale Document Number: GALE|A493329357

Clinton, Chelsea SHE PERSISTED AROUND THE WORLD Philomel (Children's Informational) $17.99 3, 6 ISBN: 978-0-525-51699-6
A scope-broadening companion to She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World (2017).
Arranged in their subjects' birth order (though frequently without any dates), the brief tributes focus on the achievements of selected women from countries other than the U.S. Activists' causes include the right to an education (Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Mexico, and Malala Yousafzai, Pakistan), environmentalism (Wangari Maathai, Kenya), anti-war protests (Leymah Gbowee, Liberia) and women's suffrage (Kate Sheppard, New Zealand, whose cause included Maori women). Marie Curie gets a nod for her two Nobel prizes, Egyptian Aisha Rateb for her trailblazing legal career, and Joanne "J.K." Rowling for Harry Potter. Brazilian soccer star Sisleide "Sissi" Lima do Amor is the one athlete in the lineup. The roster is, overall, both racially and nationally diverse--though as Chinese-American dancer Yuan Yuan Tan has spent most of her life in this country, East Asia seems underrepresented. Personal detail is so skimpy that, for instance, readers will have to infer from context that Canadian civil rights activist Viola Desmond was a woman of color. Clinton does note that astronomer Caroline Herschel was barely 4 feet tall due to a childhood disease, and following an early accident, pioneering Indian doctor Mary Verghese worked from a wheelchair. Each entry appears with a visionary quote and, from Boiger, fluidly brushed watercolor portraits of the subject as a dignified adult and also, often, a child. There is no backmatter to guide inspired readers to further information.
"So, speak up, rise up, dream big," Clinton urges--but, again, offers only tantalizing glimpses of women who did that. (Informational picture book. 6-9)
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"Clinton, Chelsea: SHE PERSISTED AROUND THE WORLD." Kirkus Reviews, 15 Mar. 2018. Gale General OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A530650919/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=ba8a54ce. Accessed 9 Nov. 2019.
Gale Document Number: GALE|A530650919

QUOTE:
"solid addition to women's history shelves."

She Persisted around the World: 13 Women Who Changed History.
By Chelsea Clinton. Illus. by Alexandra Boiger.
2018. 32p. Philomel, $17.99 (9780525516996). 920.72. K-Gr. 2.
This companion to She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World (2017) introduces women from other countries, some well-known, others not, who overcame often enormous odds to follow their own paths. The subjects, each fascinating in her own right, include Kate Sheppard, who helped get New Zealand women the vote; Aisha Rateb, an Egyptian who worked to reform the country's legal system; and Yuan Yuan Tan, a Chinese ballet dancer, as well as more famous folk, such as J. K. Rowling and Malala Yousafzai. Each woman gets a buoyant two-page spread featuring Clinton's concise biographies set against Boiger's inventive artwork. Executed in watercolor and ink, the pictures tell their own stories, whether it's Malala in the center of a huge pink flower, each petal featuring another girl who is learning, or Marie Curie standing in front of a blackboard decorated with pictures of the previous male Nobel Prize winners, her children tugging at her skirt. One missing element: a time line or note that explains when these women lived. A solid addition to women's history shelves.--Ilene Cooper
Copyright: COPYRIGHT 2018 American Library Association
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Cooper, Ilene. "She Persisted around the World: 13 Women Who Changed History." Booklist, 15 Apr. 2018, p. 45. Gale General OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A537268143/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=fc4ab0a1. Accessed 9 Nov. 2019.
Gale Document Number: GALE|A537268143

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"There's a lot of interesting information here, and teachers may want to use this to spark class discussions."

Start Now! You Can Make a Difference. By Chelsea Clinton. Oct. 2018.144p. Philomel, $16.99 (9780525514367). Gr. 5-8. 361.7.
Clinton's latest is similar to her 2015 book, It's Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going! Both tackle important issues and suggest ways kids can get involved and facilitate change. This book is something of a cornucopia of issues. Each chapter delves into one general subject--for instance, the health of the planet--and then looks at individual elements like water, weather, and sanitary conditions. Other chapters include food, health, preservation, and bullying. Those big tents allow Clinton to write about everything from vitamins to endangered species to kindness, with a lot in between. In the past, Clinton's writing style has been on the earnest side, but this book is a little more sprightly, and there's a bit of a sense of humor displayed, as when discussing Roman plumbing: "think poop." Black-and-white photos as well as line drawings break up the text. Each chapter ends with a boxed list of suggestions for making change. There's a lot of interesting information here, and teachers may want to use this to spark class discussions. --Ilene Cooper
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Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
Cooper, Ilene. "Start Now! You Can Make a Difference." Booklist, 1 Oct. 2018, p. 39. Gale General OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A557838048/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=3cc3c040. Accessed 9 Nov. 2019.
Gale Document Number: GALE|A557838048

QUOTE:
"must-have title for school and public libraries as well as young activists' home collections."

Clinton, Chelsea START NOW! Philomel (Children's Informational) $16.99 10, 2 ISBN: 978-0-525-51436-7
How does a preteen become a voice of change for their community? (Hint: Start by reading this book!)
Clinton (and her editing team) knows how to speak to the middle-grade crowd, hitting all the right notes in this useful and enjoyable guide to activism. A wide range of hot-topic issues is covered, including climate change, health and fitness, and even bullying and friendships. Each roughly 20-page chapter introduces readers to a topic with an overview, a precise bit of history, and a few real-world examples to enforce the idea that no goal is too lofty or unmanageable. Gallagher's line illustrations are intermixed with photographs of kids who've made a difference. The children discussed are inclusive of many ages, races, and genders, allowing a diverse range of readers to find personal connections to the text. The language is simple but never simplistic. When reach words or unfamiliar terms are used, they are defined, explained, and often spelled phonetically. Each chapter ends with a bulleted "Start now!" list that offers helpful suggestions for involvement, balancing advice kids can give to parents and activities they can do themselves. In most cases, writing to an elected official is included, reminding children to reach out and let their voices be heard. The backmatter includes an index but, sadly, not a bibliography for further reading.
A must-have title for school and public libraries as well as young activists' home collections. (Nonfiction. 9-13)
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Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
"Clinton, Chelsea: START NOW!" Kirkus Reviews, 15 Oct. 2018. Gale General OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A557887260/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=83f27801. Accessed 9 Nov. 2019.
Gale Document Number: GALE|A557887260

QUOTE:
"winning heads up for younger readers just becoming aware of the wider natural world."

Clinton, Chelsea DON'T LET THEM DISAPPEAR Philomel (Children's Informational) $17.99 4, 2 ISBN: 978-0-525-51432-9
An appeal to share concern for 12 familiar but threatened, endangered, or critically endangered animal species.
The subjects of Marino's intimate, close-up portraits--fairly naturalistically rendered, though most are also smiling, glancing up at viewers through human eyes, and posed at rest with a cute youngling on lap or flank--steal the show. Still, Clinton's accompanying tally of facts about each one's habitat and daily routines, to which the title serves as an ongoing refrain, adds refreshingly unsentimental notes: "A single giraffe kick can kill a lion!"; "[S]hivers of whale sharks can sense a drop of blood if it's in the water nearby, though they eat mainly plankton." Along with tucking in collective nouns for each animal (some not likely to be found in major, or any, dictionaries: an "embarrassment" of giant pandas?), the author systematically cites geographical range, endangered status, and assumed reasons for that status, such as pollution, poaching, or environmental change. She also explains the specific meaning of "endangered" and some of its causes before closing with a set of doable activities (all uncontroversial aside from the suggestion to support and visit zoos) and a list of international animal days to celebrate.
A winning heads up for younger readers just becoming aware of the wider natural world. (Informational picture book. 6-8)
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"Clinton, Chelsea: DON'T LET THEM DISAPPEAR." Kirkus Reviews, 15 Feb. 2019. Gale General OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A573768864/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=8f2244eb. Accessed 9 Nov. 2019.
Gale Document Number: GALE|A573768864

QUOTE:
will prove in this era of the #MeToo movement and the increasing presence of women in the national congress, to be an immediate and enduringly popular addition to family, preschool, elementary school, and community library picture book biography collections for young readers ages 4-8."

She Persisted
Chelsea Clinton, author
Alexandra Boiger, illustrator
Philomel
c/o Penguin Group USA
345 Hudson Street, 15th floor, New York, NY 10014
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9781524741723, $17.99 hc / $10.99 Kindle, 32pp, www.amazon.com
Throughout American history, there have always been women who have spoken out for what's right, even when they have to fight to be heard. In early 2017, Senator Elizabeth Warren's refusal to be silenced in the Senate inspired a spontaneous celebration of women who persevered in the face of adversity. In "She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World", Chelsea Clinton (the daughter of former American President Bill Clinton) celebrates thirteen American women who helped shape our country through their tenacity, sometimes through speaking out, sometimes by staying seated, sometimes by captivating an audience. They all certainly persisted. "She Persisted" is for everyone who has ever wanted to speak up but has been told to quiet down, for everyone who has ever tried to reach for the stars but was told to sit down, and for everyone who has ever been made to feel unworthy or unimportant or small. With vivid, compelling art by Alexandra Boiger, "She Persisted" shows readers that no matter what obstacles may be in their paths, they shouldn't give up on their dreams. Persistence is power. "She Persisted" features: Harriet Tubman, Helen Keller, Clara Lemlich, Nellie Bly, Virginia Apgar, Maria Tallchief, Claudette Colvin, Ruby Bridges, Margaret Chase Smith, Sally Ride, Florence Griffith Joyner, Oprah Winfrey, Sonia Sotomayor--and one special cameo! "She Persisted" will prove in this era of the #MeToo movement and the increasing presence of women in the national congress, to be an immediate and enduringly popular addition to family, preschool, elementary school, and community library picture book biography collections for young readers ages 4-8. It should be noted for personal reading lists that "She Persisted" is also available in a digital book format (Kindle, $10.99) and a hardcover book and CD format from Weston Woods (9781338335255, $29.95).
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Clinton, Chelsea. "She Persisted." Children's Bookwatch, Mar. 2019. Gale General OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A582204164/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=919109ef. Accessed 9 Nov. 2019.
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clear, compassionate prose" and that the book is an "inviting, rather than insistent, appeal to care for the planet and its most vulnerable creatures."
Chelsea Clinton, illus. by Gianna Marino. Philomel, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-525-51432-9
Writing in clear, compassionate prose, Clinton (She Persisted) introduces readers to 12 endangered species: blue whales, elephants, giant pandas, gitaffes, gorillas, lions, orangutans, polar bears, rhinoceroses, sea otters, tigers, and whale sharks. Short fact lists identify each animal's endangered status, from "nearly vulnerable" to "critically endangered," and further differentiate between subspecies (Asiatic lions are endangered; African lions, vulnerable). For each spread, Clinton makes a call to readers--"Don't let them disappear!"--and recounts threats facing the animals, including habitat destruction, climate change, and hunting by humans. Passages focus on the animals' unique attributes ("Whale sharks are the biggest fish in the world and may be one of the few animals who never sleep") alongside gentle art by Marino (How Do You Do?) that is more expressive than naturalistic--in one spread, three otters cuddle up among kelp fronds, smiling and content. Clinton concludes with simple suggestions for readers to help endangered animals themselves: "Tell your family they shouldn't buy jewelry, trophies or anything else made from endangered animals." It's an inviting, rather than insistent, appeal to care for the planet and its most vulnerable creatures. Ages 4-8. Author's agent: Tara Kole, Gang, Tyre, Ramer & Brown, Illustrator's agent: Deborah Warren, East West Literary. (Apr.)
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"Don't Let Them Disappear." Publishers Weekly, 4 Mar. 2019, p. 68+. Gale General OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A578584294/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=3b0b9514. Accessed 9 Nov. 2019.
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Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition) Barnes, Diana. "Clinton, Chelsea: She Persisted Around the World." School Librarian, Autumn 2018, p. 178. Gale General OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A555410073/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=d79192b0. Accessed 9 Nov. 2019. Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition) Jensen, Lindsay. "CLINTON, Chelsea. Don't Let Them Disappear." School Library Journal, May 2019, p. 112. Gale General OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A584328944/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=7d5b1eec. Accessed 9 Nov. 2019. Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition) "Clinton, Chelsea: SHE PERSISTED." Kirkus Reviews, 1 June 2017. Gale General OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A493329357/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=e79a633b. Accessed 9 Nov. 2019. Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition) "Clinton, Chelsea: SHE PERSISTED AROUND THE WORLD." Kirkus Reviews, 15 Mar. 2018. Gale General OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A530650919/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=ba8a54ce. Accessed 9 Nov. 2019. Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition) Cooper, Ilene. "She Persisted around the World: 13 Women Who Changed History." Booklist, 15 Apr. 2018, p. 45. Gale General OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A537268143/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=fc4ab0a1. Accessed 9 Nov. 2019. Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition) Cooper, Ilene. "Start Now! You Can Make a Difference." Booklist, 1 Oct. 2018, p. 39. Gale General OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A557838048/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=3cc3c040. Accessed 9 Nov. 2019. Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition) "Clinton, Chelsea: START NOW!" Kirkus Reviews, 15 Oct. 2018. Gale General OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A557887260/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=83f27801. Accessed 9 Nov. 2019. Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition) "Clinton, Chelsea: DON'T LET THEM DISAPPEAR." Kirkus Reviews, 15 Feb. 2019. Gale General OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A573768864/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=8f2244eb. Accessed 9 Nov. 2019. Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition) Clinton, Chelsea. "She Persisted." Children's Bookwatch, Mar. 2019. Gale General OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A582204164/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=919109ef. Accessed 9 Nov. 2019. Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition) "Don't Let Them Disappear." Publishers Weekly, 4 Mar. 2019, p. 68+. Gale General OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A578584294/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=3b0b9514. Accessed 9 Nov. 2019.

• London Guardian
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  Hillary and Chelsea Clinton co-write The Book of Gutsy Women
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  Their book profiles more than 100 path-breaking women down the centuries, from a 17th-century radical nun to Greta Thunberg
  Alison Flood
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  Continuing the conversation … Hillary Clinton with her daughter Chelsea at a rally in November 2016. Photograph: Brooks Kraft/Corbis via Getty Images
  Hillary Clinton is set to publish a new book about the women who have inspired her, from Mary Beard to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – “leaders with the courage to stand up to the status quo, ask hard questions, and get the job done”.
  After publishing her memoir about the 2016 presidential election campaign, What Happened, Clinton teamed up with her daughter Chelsea to write The Book of Gutsy Women, due out in October from Simon & Schuster. “If history shows one thing, it’s that the world needs gutsy women,” the Clintons say. “So in the moments when the long haul seems awfully long, we hope you will draw strength from these stories. We do.”
  Historian Beard is cited for using “wit to open doors that were once closed”, while novelist Adichie is extolled for her writing on feminism. Also included are the teenage climate emergency activist Greta Thunberg, and the 17th-century nun and poet Juana Inés de la Cruz, whom they say scandalised readers with her outspoken view on women’s role in society.

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  “Each of these women has fought and won the kinds of victories that pave the way for progress for all of us,” said Clinton. “This book is a continuation of a conversation Chelsea and I have been having since she was a little girl, and we are excited to welcome others into that conversation.”
  The pair will also highlight the stories of the civil war surgeon Mary Edwards Walker, who was arrested for wearing trousers; Shirley Chisholm, who ran for US president in 1972; television presenter Ellen DeGeneres; and Manal al-Sharif, who filmed herself driving a car in 2011 in defiance of Saudi Arabian laws. More than 100 women will feature in the book, as the Clintons set out to celebrate “the histories that all too often get overlooked or are left unwritten”.
  The Clinton family have produced many books, with Chelsea having previously written She Persisted, a picture book about American women who changed the world. Clinton’s What Happened has sold almost 100,000 copies in the UK since it was published in 2017, with her previous memoirs Living History and Hard Choices bringing her total sales to more than 300,000 copies, according to book sales monitor Nielsen BookScan.

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  "possibly a first: a cultural artefact inspired by a mother and a daughter which is neither cringeworthily sentimental nor frighteningly bitchy." Groskop further noted that the numerous profiles are "carefully and lovingly written by the two authors with their own tactfully brief asides on why these women matter to them."
  The Book of Gutsy Women by Hillary and Chelsea Clinton, review: a restrained statement of rebellion
  The mother and daughter have lovingly collated a sort of Wikipedia of hundreds of significant women

  By Viv Groskop
  Tuesday, 1st October 2019, 12:01 am
  Updated
  Tuesday, 1st October 2019, 12:02 am

  Chelsea Clinton, with her mother Hillary Rodham Clinton, have written a book about inspiring figures from both distant and recent history
  The Book of Gutsy Women is possibly a first: a cultural artefact inspired by a mother and a daughter which is neither cringeworthily sentimental nor frighteningly bitchy. Something like the opposite of Mommie Dearest, it’s overtly a love letter to sisterhood, to “forgotten women” and inspiring figures from both distant and recent history. Less obviously, it also comes across rather sweetly and tacitly as a tribute to Hillary and Chelsea’s relationship.
  It is a sort of “Wikipedia of Several Hundred Significant Women” (my words not theirs), carefully and lovingly written by the two authors with their own tactfully brief asides on why these women matter to them. Apart from Hillary’s personal reminiscences about Nancy Drew, Betty Friedan, Simone de Beauvoir and Margaret Atwood and Chelsea’s passion for Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz and Meg Murry in A Wrinkle in Time in the opening pages, there’s a real sense that the authors know that for once it’s not about them.

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  The 440 pages are packed with beautifully written stories of women’s lives. So that we know who’s “talking” when, sections are sub-headed “Chelsea” (the heavier lifter here, perhaps, in terms of task distribution), “Hillary” and “Hillary and Chelsea” with a nod in the Acknowledgements to their “collaborator” Lauren Peterson, speechwriter on Hillary’s 2016 campaign.
  The whole thing feels like a restrained statement of rebellion and also a sort of consolation. From the Epilogue: “… running for office is one great way to make a difference, but it’s far from the only way.” A true statement but also a painful one.

  The authorial voices here come across as warm and friendly, Hillary bigging up Ellen de Generes for her yoghurt jokes, Chelsea praising Sandy Hook activist Shannon Watts for her fearlessness on social media. By varying the examples widely and giving each case study a maximum of around four or five pages, The Book of Gutsy Women avoids being preachy or repetitive. It feels like a fresh, inventive and new take on this genre.
  The examples are divided into eleven categories from Earth Defenders (including Wangari Maathai, Jane Goodall and Greta Thunberg) and Healers (Florence Nightingale features alongside Betty Ford) to Storytellers (Maya Angelou, Mary Beard, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and more) and Athletes (including Billie Jean King, Venus and Serena Williams and Caster Semenya).

  There are some clever spins on obvious inclusions: pairing Marie Curie with her Nobel prize-winning daughter Irene Joliot-Curie, for example, and Rosa Parks with Claudette Colvin, both involved in the Montgomery bus boycott. The scope of inspiration is dizzying: I defy anyone to have heard of every woman here. Some of the choices are unusual for this kind of book and all the more interesting for that: Ugly Betty’s America Ferrera, Florence Griffith Joyner, Katharine Graham.
  They say revenge is a dish best served cold and it has been three long and chilly years since President Trump took the seat Hillary Clinton once hoped to occupy (A man who, in his own way, conveys qualities of courage and resilience but possibly qualifies as more gusty than gutsy). I doubt Hillary’s adversary will care about this (or any) book. But for anyone who loves to read about trailblazing women and wants a twist on Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls, Jenni Murray’s A History of Britain in 21 Women or Cathy Newman’s Bloody Brilliant Women, this book really delivers.

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  Do we get more of a window into Hillary’s world than she already showed in her last memoir, the ominously-titled What Happened? No, this isn’t the time or the place. But I did enjoy this aside in the Acknowledgements that “one of us still writes longhand” and the shout-out to Hillary’s Executive Assistant Opal Vadhan for providing “invaluable contributions in deciphering Hillary’s handwriting.” Now, that is courage and resilience.
  It amused me to think that whilst one 73-year-old leader is all fingers and thumbs angrily bashing out dozens of tweets a day, somewhere a 71-year-old woman is sitting at her desk collecting her thoughts on figure skater Michelle Kwan, gynaecologist Dr Gao Yaojie, and Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress — and writing them down at leisure in longhand in her own sweet, sweet time. Definitely one for the (handwritten) Christmas list.
  'The Book of Gutsy Women: Favourite Stories of Courage and Resilience', by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton is published by Simon & Schuster (£25); Viv Groskop is the author of 'How to Own the Room: Women and the Art of Brilliant Speaking' (Transworld, £12.99)

• Senior Women Web
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  "Traditionally, what defined a woman as worthy of note was her beauty. To the Clintons, it’s their pushiness — their willingness to defy the status quo, their ability to get things done, their resilience. They tell stories of women who were courageous and determined." Freeman added: "This is a book that every young woman needs to read."
  Jo Freeman Reviews - The Book of Gutsy Women by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton
  Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton

  The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience

  Published by New York: Simon & Schuster, 2019

  450 pages. Lots of photographs

  When I was going to school in the 1950s, it was rare to find a woman in my textbooks. When I looked for a job as a journalist in the late 1960s, I was told that women weren’t hired because they couldn’t cover riots. When the women’s liberation movement began to hit the media in the 1970s, a common retort was that women hadn’t done much of anything. "There are no great women artists" we were told.

  In the 1980s and 1990s, when I read women’s history on my own, I realized that there were important and prominent women in every decade, but they disappeared when the history books were written. Women were like sand castles; men were like rocks. The waters of time washed over both and wiped out the women.

  The Clintons — mother and daughter — are helping to remedy that. By telling the stories of 103 Gutsy women, they want to raise the sand from the beaches and fuse the particles into solid quartz.

  Traditionally, what defined a woman as worthy of note was her beauty. To the Clintons, it’s their pushiness — their willingness to defy the status quo, their ability to get things done, their resilience. They tell stories of women who were courageous and determined.

  The book is organized as a conversation between mother and daughter. In the first section, each talks about women they knew, or read about, who were important to them. In subsequent sections they tell us about more and more women who have stood up for themselves and others. These descriptions of strong women defy the popular belief that women are the "weaker sex."

  Spread throughout the world, these women have worked in many fields, from explorers to athletes to writers to politicians. They are young and old, of every race and ethnicity. They go back at least three centuries.

  The Clinton’s have different perspectives, reflecting their generational difference. Much had changed by the time Chelsea was in school. She learned about important women who were absent from her mother’s early education. She grew up at a time when both of her parents held important positions and was able to watch her mother elevate women and the study of women. Indeed, if Chelsea had been the sole author of this book, Hillary would have headed her list of Gutsy women.

  This is a book that every young woman needs to read. If I had known about Margaret Bourke-White when I was told that "women can’t cover riots," I could have responded with a story about a photo-journalist who covered wars.

  Older women will also benefit. When Hillary declared her candidacy for president in 2008, how many knew that over fifty women had already placed their names on a primary or general election ballot as candidates for President?

  It’s a beautifully designed book, with lots of color photographs. It will go viral. Get it while you can.

  ©2019 Jo Freeman for SeniorWomenWeb:

  Jo Freeman has published 11 books and hundreds of articles and book reviews. She is trying to finish her next book: Tell It Like It Is: Living History in the Southern Civil Rights Movement, 1965-66.

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  "Given its length, this is a book to savor over multiple sittings, allowing readers to revisit well-known heroines or discover new ones among the pages."

  The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilienceby Hillary Rodham Clinton & Chelsea ClintonS. & S. Oct. 2019. 464p. ISBN 9781501178412. $35. BIOGCOPY ISBNFormer first lady, secretary of state, and senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, and daughter Chelsea Clinton (Columbia Univ. Mailman Sch. of Public Health) collaborate on this inspiring collection featuring influential women doctors, scientists, inventors, educators, politicians, athletes, and more. Notable figures, including Harriet Tubman, Helen Keller, Sojourner Truth, and Florence Nightingale, are cast alongside those shaping the history of tomorrow, as the authors show the power of these women’s influence to effect change. The book is grouped into categories such as “healers” or “inventors,” and each section features a few pages of biographical narrative with brief commentary by the authors. While the author remarks can be distracting in some cases, in others it adds interest, such as Rodham Clinton’s account of her interactions with the women of South Africa’s Victoria Mxenge community postapartheid.VERDICT Broad in scope, this will appeal to a wide audience owing to the range of women spotlighted. Given its length, this is a book to savor over multiple sittings, allowing readers to revisit well-known heroines or discover new ones among the pages.Reviewed by Stacy Shaw, Denver , Nov 08, 2019

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