Hillary Clinton's Memoir to be Titled 'Hard Choices'

(from usatoday.com
by Bob Minzesheimer)

(Photo: Simon and Shuster)


Hillary Clinton's memoir about her four years as Secretary of State will be titled Hard Choices.

A day after Chelsea Clinton announced she's expecting her first child, publisher Simon and Schuster revealed the title and cover of Hillary Clinton's book, to be released June 10.

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"All of us face hard choices in our lives," Clinton writes in the book. "Life is about making such choices. Our choices and how we handle them shape the people we become."

As the author faces her own choice -- whether to run for president in 2016, as is widely expected -- her memoir will recount her "surprise"" after her unsuccessful 2008 presidential bid when her former political rival, President Obama, nominated her to be Secretary of State.

As her publisher describes the book, "Secretary Clinton and President Obama had to decide how to repair fractured alliances, wind down two wars, and address a global financial crisis. They faced a rising competitor in China, growing threats from Iran and North Korea, and revolutions across the Middle East. Along the way, they grappled with some of the toughest dilemmas of U.S. foreign policy, especially the decision to send Americans into harm's way, from Afghanistan to Libya to the hunt for Osama bin Laden."

Her publisher also notes that in four years, Clinton visited 112 countries, traveled nearly one million miles, and gained a "truly global perspective on many of the major trends reshaping the landscape of the 21st century, from economic inequality to climate change to revolutions in energy, communica­tions, and health."

It says the book will make "a passionate case for human rights and the full participation in society of women, youth, and LGBT people" and offer readers a "master class in international relations."

Journalists and political rivals will be most interested in how much Clinton reveals about her relationship and differences with Obama, controversies like the deadly raid on U.S. diplomats in Benghazi, Libya -- Republicans have accused Clinton of a cover-up -- and her own political plans.

Clinton has written four previous books, including a 2003 memoir, Living History, that hit No. 1 on USA TODAY's Best-Selling books list.