Silver Digest September/October 2020

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Hillary Clinton’s life, as told in the new docu-series Hillary, is not just a life story, but an important story about American politics.

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In Hillary, the riveting four-part

Clinton is the most famous

her career has been dogged by

documentary directed by Nanette

and probably the most popular

controversies and scandals.

Burstein that was released earlier

woman politician of her own time.

The documentary recounts the

here is something about Hillary Rodham Clinton Nevertheless, Hillary

this year, it is something the

Many people do love her. They

interviewees – a cast

scream and cry when they

of old school and

see her as if she were a

college friends, staff,

rock star. She has been

colleagues and

lauded, admired

At the same time, however,

steady stream of accusations and investigations, from the Whitewater scandal in the 1990s (a controversy about an apparent conflict of interests related to

journalists – keep

and praised to the

a real estate investment) to her

coming back to.

hilt: high office,

husband, former president Bill

No one seems

awards, covers of

Clinton’s affairs, which led to

able to explain

Newsweek and Time

his impeachment trial. And of

it, and, more

magazines. She

importantly, no one

has proved herself

on her formidable staff

to be an incredibly

seemed to know what

effective politician,

to do about it as it became

working intelligently and

increasingly important in her election race against Donald Trump in 2016. For some reason, too many people did not trust her, or quite believe what she said or had faith in her motivations.

Bill and Hillary Clinton at a St. Louis campaign rally in 1992, Bill Clinton's final day of campaigning in St. Louis, Missouri.

course, there was the ongoing question of her emails – official state correspondence during her time as Secretary of State that went through her private home

pragmatically within the system

server rather than the government

to make realistic changes. And she

server, and thus supposedly posed

has consistently fought for decades

a security risk (and a crime). This

for a stable set of clear beliefs, not

apparently insignificant infraction

least women’s rights, civil rights

was repeatedly deployed to derail

and children’s rights.

her campaign. “I’m the most Continued …

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people just do not like.


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