Sittenfeld.
Posted on 05/12/2020 5:03:13 PM PDT by simpson96
Curtis Sittenfeld likes to imagine the sex lives of presidents.(snip)
She does it again in “Rodham,” her new novel, to be published on May 19. I won’t soon forget the scene in which Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham distract themselves while driving through Arkansas in a way that redefines “joy ride.”
“Please don’t get pulled over,” Hillary cautions him.
Did this happen? Who knows? The fascination of the first third of “Rodham” is its weave of history and hypothesis as it chronicles the initial meeting of Bill and Hillary at Yale Law School, their courtship and her migration to Arkansas when he makes an unsuccessful run for Congress. Embellished details are grafted onto established events.
The fascination of the rest of “Rodham” is its whole-cloth divergence from the record. Sittenfeld’s novel asks: What if Hillary and Bill hadn’t married? What if her professional arc had been entirely her own?
It’s an ingenious conceit, because it gets to the central paradox of real-life Hillary, the initial reason she became such a mesmerizing, polarizing, meta-cultural Rorschach. She’s a feminist trailblazer who first arrived at stratospheric celebrity because of her husband and was perceived and analyzed largely in terms of her relationship with him. She’s a voice for equal opportunity who kept biting her tongue.(snip)
In Sittenfeld’s novel, she and Bill break up around the time the actual couple got engaged. They’ll intersect anew, but I’d be spoiling “Rodham” to explain how, why and with what result.(snip)
But I’m on firm columnist ground to note the aptness of this book’s appearance now, mid-pandemic, in a season of what-ifs. What if President Trump, early on, had taken more assertive action to contain the coronavirus’s spread? What if someone else were at the helm?
What would Hillary have done?
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Sittenfeld.
No one cares.
Sittenfeld bears the look of her father.
FTA: “Hillary obviously would have managed this pandemic better, because Trump could hardly have managed it worse.”
Pre-Op or Post?
Here I thought the “central paradox of real-life Hillary” was how one person could commit so many crimes and never even get arrested for them, much less do time in the pokey.
What if I decided to sleep with a man, would I enjoy it?
She would be a sleazy lawyer in Chicago that specialized in getting rapists off.
she’d be in jail for fake RE investments and he’s be in jail for rape.
The world would be missing a Chelsea Hubble
Yikes!
A she named Curtis?
Without Bill, Hillary would have ended up as a partner in a second-tier law firm or a director of some obscure state government agency, at best.
I doubt she’s “gettin’ much”. Another prom reject? Mad at the world?
Some girls can get away with going by first names like “Curtis” or “Lionel” or “Stanley”. Miss Sittenfeld is not one of them.
I just threw up a little in my mouth.
They both would have ended up nobodies.
Hillary (like Debbie Dingell who succeeded John Dingell) would never have been qualified in any way for high office. Tens of thousands of women were lawyers and hundreds were Goldwater girls. She was in proximity to her husband who did things as President. He did them. That does not make her VP, just First Lady. Your dentist’s children are around her or him a lot but that does not allow them to set up an office as dentists.
A name recognition and sexism Senator from a different state than her genuine Arkansas. Then an honorary job of incompetent Sec. of State and a losing candidate in 2016.
Her husband did things, not her. She was his wife.
Because of PC and sexism I’m not supposed to shine that light of truth on her but I did.
What if Hillary and Bill hadn’t married?
Bill’s recurring dream.
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