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"From School Library Journal: Gr 1-4
Framed in terms of the fight for equal opportunities for women, this picture book biography depicts Hillary Rodham Clinton's story as one of endless heroic struggles on behalf of the oppressed. Clinton is described as an excellent student who took an early leadership role among her peers, was inspired by hearing a speech by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and later fearlessly advocated on behalf of women, people of color, children, and the poor. Her challenges in balancing work and family life, as well as the criticism she's received as a woman, make her willingness to conquer each new hurdle even more impressive.
Employing deft and engaging prose, Markel covers much of the same ground Kathleen Krull did with Hillary Rodham Clinton: Dreams Taking Flight (S. & S., 2008) but provides far more specific details, though Krull's book offers a more impressionistic main text and extensive endnotes.
The tone is relentlessly positive, making it difficult to get a well-rounded sense of Clinton as a person, and there is no reference to any of the political controversies surrounding her or Bill Clinton. Pham's evocative illustrations steal the show, varying in mood from whimsical to uplifting to sobering.
Particularly effective is the contrast between the opening spread, which features well-known (and sepia-toned) men of the 1950s, and the concluding pages, which depict many vibrantly diverse and notable women of the 20th and 21st centuries.
VERDICT A beautifully produced, if excessively laudatory, biography of a significant contemporary political figure; recommended for general collections. - Laura Simeon, Open Window School Library, WA "
Does this book include Hillary’s lie that NASA told her they don’t hire women and that women could not be astronauts?
The book comes with its own pop-up air sickness bag.
Where in the book does it narrate the appropriate way for a woman to climb that ladder of success by marrying an ambitious Man?
... like Queen Elizabeth II who was the first-born child in a monarchy. But the last time I checked this was still nominally a republic without born rulers.
I’d love to see her as an arch-villain in an Austin Powers movie. Bill could play a mini-me style role.
this picture book biography depicts Hillary Rodham Clinton’s story as one of endless heroic struggles
You are aware that barf alerts exist for a reason, are you not...?
Some girls are never born to get the chance. They are aborted.
She was a high school Young Republican and a "Goldwater Girl".
In 1968 she supported anti-war Dem candidate, Eugene McCarthy...and in 1972 she supported the arch liberal, George McGovern.
She was further radicalized at Yale...then she met and married Bill Clinton, and she was on her way to the top (she hoped).
She will be worse that Obama if she is successful in her blind obsession.
Leni