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TIME Honors Hillary Clinton's 'What Happened' As 'Top Non-Fiction Book' of the Year
Newsbusters.org ^ | September 24, 2017 | Tim Graham

Posted on 11/24/2017 5:20:04 PM PST by Kaslin

Time magazine is already celebrating their Best of 2017, and their favorite "Non-Fiction" book of the year is....Hillary Clinton's campaign memoir What Happened. Time assistant managing editor Claire Howorth gushed, "Clinton offers one answer to the question that rang collectively from more than half the country on Nov. 9, 2016. The writing is frank, reflective and a piece of modern history."

It came complete with buying instructions from Amazon, and Hillary Clinton quickly tweeted out how "honored" she was: "I loved writing this book, & I’m honored to be in such great company on this list!" Number two on the Time top ten was radical black writer Ta-Nehisi Coates reflecting on Obama during the Trump era in We Were Eight Years in Power.

It also included former Newsweek editor Tina Brown (a Clinton adorer from way back) for her new book The Vanity Fair Diaries, a book on evangelical Christians in politics by leftist Frances FitzGerald, as well as a volume on The Meaning of Michelle, over which Howorth oozed: "This anthology, edited by journalist and author Veronica Chambers, was published just days before the Obamas left the White House, but the essays within feel more relevant than ever. Contributors include Roxane Gay, Ava DuVernay, Hamilton star Tiffany Dufu, New York [City]’s First Lady Chirlane McCray and others, examining everything from Obama’s fashion to her marriage to her cultural impact as the first African-American First Lady."

On Sunday, The Washington Post also put Hillary's What Happened on their list of the year 50 Best Nonfiction Books of 2017. As usual, the Post included a list of its own current and former reporters in the annual fringe-benefits envelope.

Current staffers honored were Monica Hesse (American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land), E.J. Dionne (One Nation After Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet-Deported, written with Norman Ornstein and Thomas Mann); and of course, the paper's nonfiction book editor Steven Levingston (Kennedy and King: The President, The Pastor, and the Battle Over Civil Rights).

Former Post reporter Glenn Frankel made the list with High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic. There were liberal journalists on the list: former Time editor Walter Isaacson's book on Leonardo da Vinci, New York Times reporters William Taubman (Gorbachev: His Life and Times) and Helene Cooper (Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf), and Boston Globe reporter John Aloysius Farrell (Richard Nixon: The Life).

The Post also honored Daily Show host Trevor Noah as one of the Top 5 Audiobooks for his memoir Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016presidential; bookreview; campaigns; clinton; hillaryrottenclinton; slimemagazine; washingtoncompost; whathappened
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To: dragnet2
Caption fell off...

Don't touch hers; touch MINE!


81 posted on 11/25/2017 3:52:50 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: MomwithHope
Didn't like the results.


82 posted on 11/25/2017 4:06:48 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: dragnet2

When I see these photos of Herself showing such expressions of unpleasantness, I wonder what was actually being screamed there, and who was the unfortunate victim.


83 posted on 11/25/2017 5:40:13 PM PST by pigsmith
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To: Kaslin
Hillary Clinton quickly tweeted out how "honored" she was: "I loved writing this book...

Ha ha ha.

Hillary does not "write" books, one highly suspects.

She, um, "delegates" that.

One would be surprised if she has even read the whole thing.

84 posted on 11/25/2017 7:36:20 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except for convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: Vlad The Inhaler
Did she start eating 24/7 once she lost the election? She did not look THAT big during the presidential debates only a year ago.

How did she go from the debate pic to what looks like a morbidly obese woman, even bigger than Loretta Lynch, especially with the thick cankles.

85 posted on 11/26/2017 7:36:45 AM PST by Blue Highway
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

Arg. Thar she blows!

86 posted on 11/26/2017 7:40:01 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Blue Highway; Vlad The Inhaler
How did she go from the debate pic above to this pic that you posted in less than a year? You sure that's not photophopped?


87 posted on 11/26/2017 7:42:07 AM PST by Blue Highway
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To: Blue Highway

The beach pictures are from 2014 - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2720212/A-straw-visor-muumuu-Hillary-SoulCycle-shorts-Bill-Relaxed-Clintons-enjoy-downtime-beach-dogs.html


88 posted on 11/26/2017 7:43:47 AM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Blue Highway
How did she go from the debate pic above to this pic that you posted in less than a year? You sure that's not photophopped?

Do these all look photoshopped?


89 posted on 11/26/2017 11:56:57 AM PST by Vlad The Inhaler (United We Stand - Divided We Fall. Remember: Diversity is the opposite of unity.)
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To: Blue Highway
Did she start eating 24/7 once she lost the election? She did not look THAT big during the presidential debates only a year ago.

How did she go from the debate pic to what looks like a morbidly obese woman, even bigger than Loretta Lynch, especially with the thick cankles.

Those beach pictures were taken in 2014 before the election.

http://freebeacon.com/blog/breaking-hillary-sighted-walking-somewhat-unassisted-on-a-beach/

How did she look slimmer for the campaign?

Crash diets, a girdle, Ex-Lax®, and a Gut B-Gone®.


90 posted on 11/26/2017 12:23:29 PM PST by Vlad The Inhaler (United We Stand - Divided We Fall. Remember: Diversity is the opposite of unity.)
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

Oh ok I assumed the fat pics was after the campaign as it just looks like she was depressed and aimlessly trying to find a meaning for life which would make sense after losing the election and she would engage in binge eating and binge alcohol drinking. I don’t remember her being this big 3 or 4 years ago. Was she out of the public eye in 2014 or something?


91 posted on 11/26/2017 2:22:23 PM PST by Blue Highway
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To: Kaslin

Of course they did. They can not help themselves.

They live in a bubble. They are like fish kept in an aquarium. They can not imagine life outside their world.


92 posted on 11/28/2017 5:38:56 AM PST by CIB-173RDABN (US out of the UN, UN out of the US)
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