Her Way
| Author | Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta, Jr. |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Hillary Rodham Clinton |
| Genre | Biography |
| Publisher | Little, Brown and Company |
|
Publication date
|
June 8, 2007 |
| Pages | 438 |
Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton is an investigative biography about United States Senator, and former First Lady of the United States, Hillary Rodham Clinton that was written by Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta, Jr. and published on June 8, 2007, by Little, Brown and Company.
The authors said they interviewed 500 people in connection with their research. Gerth maintained that some had to remain unnamed because they "feared retribution from Senator Clinton or her staff" otherwise.
The book came out at the same time as another mainstream biography, Carl Bernstein's A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton. The respective publishers moved up the release dates in the act of competition; the Bernstein one came out first by three days.
The Chapters of the book are organized into three Parts: First Partner, First Lady, and First Woman.
The act of publishing occurred while the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, 2008 was underway. According to reviewers at the Washington Post, the Clinton campaign was "nervous" about new revelations from this or the Bernstein book. But the Clintons had a special antipathy towards Her Way due to the Gerth's role in the Whitewater, wgucjh had bedeviled them for much of the Bill Clinton administration.
Once the books came out, while there were many items of interest, there were no blockbusters that would constitute political damage. A Clinton spokesman said, "Is it possible to be quoted yawning?" and that, "these books are nothing more than cash for rehash."Media Matters for America questioned Jeff Gerth's status as an expert on the Clintons, writing that "among mainstream reporters, perhaps nobody during the 1990s got more things wrong about Hillary and Bill Clinton than Jeff Gerth."
The general consensus was that the Gerth-Van Natta book was a little on the negative side towards its subject while the Bernstein effort was a little on the positive side, but that both were mainstream works. As the Washington Post wrote, "Unlike many harsh books about Clinton written by ideological enemies, the two new volumes come from long-established writers backed by major publishing houses and could be harder to dismiss."
...
Wikipedia