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Hillary Clinton’s Latest Book is Another Miserable Failure

What Happened, Hillary’s compendium of excuses and conspiracy theories about losing the election, opened with 100,000 in hardcover sales. Two years later, her latest book racked up a 30,000 debut.
And it got worse from there.
The Book of Gutsy Women, a collection of feminist stories by Hillary and Chelsea Clinton about role models like eco-brat Greta Thunberg, Rachel Carson, and Bella Abzug, remembered respectively for helping revive malaria and ugly hats, is the #1 bestseller in Women’s Studies on Amazon.
That’s about all it has going for it.
Even in its debut, the lazy cash-in fell behind the latest Trump conspiracy tract, Rachel Maddow’s Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth. Even Maddow’s title sounds like something a crazy homeless man might yell at you while waving a cup of his own urine, so it obviously sold more than twice as many copies as Hillary’s feminist tract.
Hillary might have taken a lesson from What Happened, which outsold her own memoirs, that her ex-base is a lot more interested in conspiracy theories about Republicans than feminist heroines. Lefties might claim that they want to read about inspiring women, but they really want to flip through a spittle-flecked rant written on tin-foil paper which blames all their problems on a vast-right wing conspiracy.
How could Hillary, who has been living that way for a generation, not pick up on the obvious?
Only the die-hard Hillaryites, who wear matching pantsuits to her book tours, and eagerly shell out hard cash for the opportunity to smell her chardonnay breath, showed up on Day 1. And there was no Day 2.
The Book of Gutsy Women debuted at No. 3 in NPD's BookScan list which gathers data from thousands of booksellers. By next week, it was down to No. 10, meanwhile Maddow's explanation of how the space aliens conspired with the Russians to elect Trump so he could let them construct a base in Wisconsin and perform experiments on local cows continued to reign over the bestseller list.
To add insult to injury, Hillary didn't just fall below Maddow, but also below Gregg Jarrett's latest book on Spygate, Witch Hunt: The Story of the Greatest Mass Delusion in American Political History, and Bill O'Reilly's The United States of Trump: How the President Really Sees America. Unlike Hillary, O’Reilly’s book had a much smoother descent because the word of mouth was better than on Gutsy Women.
The news wasn’t much better from the New York Times, whose best seller list is notorious for being rigged to favor its favorites. Gutsy Women debuted at No. 2, then crashed down No. 8 and then No. 13. The Los Angeles Times list saw Gutsy Women come in at No. 5, crash down to No. 14, and then disappear like a Maddow UFO flying over Moscow with a load of Wisconsin ballots.
Even Chelsea Clinton, who is to literature what Alvin and the Chipmunks is to opera, managed to score No. 1 New York Times bestsellers with her She Persisted collection, whose premise, stories about feminist heroines, is suspiciously similar to Gutsy Women, but couldn’t do it with her mother on board.
Ponder this.
Instead of Bill and Hillary creating a career for Chelsea based on nepotism, Hillary is actually weighing Chelsea down. In 2017, Chelsea Clinton's She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World was a No. 1 New York Times bestseller. Take that same formula, add Hillary, and sales actually go down.
The next time Hillary wants to co-write a book with Chelsea, the former Pets.com sock puppet interviewer will have to hold an uncomfortable conversation about cutting her mother loose.
It’s either that or watch Hillary kill her new hobby of writing listicle books like she killed pantsuits, compulsive lying, and Vince Foster. Bill Clinton is already remembered, not as a two-term president, but as the other half of an unlikable two-time failed presidential candidate.
After wrecking Bill’s legacy, Hillary can finish the job by wrecking her daughter’s writing career.
Fast forward to the end of October and Gutsy Women had been buried by everything from two cookbooks, Food: What the Heck Should I Cook? and The Pioneer Woman Cooks, an Elton John biography, and Newt Gingrich's Trump vs. China.
Maybe Hillary should have taken a smoke signal from Elizabeth Warren and written a cookbook?
“Destined to be a classic in the tradition of Profiles in CourageThe Book of Virtues and We Should All Be Feminists," Jonathan Karp, the President of Simon and Schuster, had declared.
Two of these things are not like the other. And none of them are like The Book of Gutsy Women which is destined to be a classic the way that one of its authors was destined to be the President of the United States. What it is destined for is remainder bins, the shelves of 99 cent stores, and the town dump.
Much like its authoress.
Simon and Schuster had invested a whole lot of money in Hillary Inc. It paid her a record $14 million advance for Hard Choices, her second memoir, a flop, it paid her $8 million for her first memoir, Living History, it suffered through It Takes a Village and Dear Socks, and got back into bed with her for what was supposed to be a book of personal essays, and instead The Book of Gutsy Women happened.
And that’s all she wrote. Literally.
“For the past 21 years, the Gallup survey has ranked Hillary Rodham Clinton as the most admired woman in the world, and there are at least 65 million people in the United States who agree,” Karp had claimed.  “We think a lot of them are going to want to hear her stories.”
Not so much.
Yes, the Gallup survey does claim that 65 million people admire Hillary Clinton. What it fails to mention is that they’re all located in a single Cook County cemetery. And none of them buy books because there isn’t a single Barnes and Noble bookstore that they can reach and return from before the sun rises.
The last time reality didn’t accord with Hillary’s polling, she blamed an international conspiracy. Now that her latest book sold fewer copies than SpongeBob Goes to the Doctor, it’ll have to be interstellar.
But the reality is that nobody likes Hillary. The only time people bought her books was when they expected her to have something to say. Living History sold big because everyone was waiting for her to dish on her husband’s affair. What Happened did very well because readers were waiting for her reaction to losing the election. There’s a winning formula here that Hillary ought to learn from.
Hillary’s books sell really well after she’s involved in a disaster, whether it’s her husband cheating on her, or losing an election. If she wants another bestseller, she needs a huge disaster to write about.
Bill Clinton cheating on her again won’t surprise anyone. And no one will let her run for president again.
That just leaves an extensive confession of her crimes. Everything from Whitewater to the Steele Dossier. In one book. It’ll outsell Living History and What Happened combined. She could even call it, What Really Happened. Unfortunately, the only place for her to go afterward would be a 6 by 8-foot cell.
But just think how many copies her fourth memoir about life in prison would sell.




Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.

Thank you for reading.

Comments

  1. Anonymous12/11/19

    It’s charming and bittersweet the way you’ve
    captured Hillary’s death spiral. In her self
    righteous delusion, she missed crossing the
    event horizon into nothingness. Lefties don’t
    care because there are no more points to get.

    Chelsea is a complicit denizen of the estrogen
    hate menagerie, driven by resentment. These
    daughters of Simone de Beauvoir, Gloria Steinem
    and Hillary, may they one day return to positive
    humanity! They’re no good to anyone as they are.

    Charlie

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  2. Anonymous12/11/19

    LOL - she is all over the UK media today trying to flog her book and terrify us all about Russian meddling in the election.

    Meanwhile - and entirely coincidentally Labour are complaining about a massive cyber-attack, which rather looks like it might more likely be underprovisioned servers crumbling under the load:

    https://order-order.com/2019/11/12/labour-really-hit-large-scale-sophisticated-cyber-attack/

    But Jeremy is still convinced its a cyber-attack: https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1194231259959980033

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  3. Anonymous12/11/19

    Simon and Schuster sure took a bath or not. Ya have to wonder why they paid so much money for her books & who knows how much for Chelsea’s books. Me thinks there is more to the money exchange than books. Oh ya it is called money laundering.

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  4. You make my mornings.

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  5. Anonymous12/11/19

    Here's a crazy idea that will never happen. Tax all literary income of former political-office holders at >90%. If they can't live off their pensions, make them go get a real job - just like Chelsea (For the sarcasm-impaired, yes, that's sarcasm).

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  6. Great line - I just tweeted it to my few followers who all need to follow you - "Even Chelsea Clinton, who is to literature what Alvin and the Chipmunks is to opera..." Very very funny. Love your work. Read you daily.

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  7. Whowoodathunk you're a comedy writer?? Lots of keepers in that one.

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  8. The Conservative Curmudgeon12/11/19

    "Another Sultan Knish Article is a Miserable Failure"

    We are a day before the Presidents impeachment hearings and obviously you can not attempt to defend the indefensible or add anything worth while so you resort to another defaming Hillary Clinton column? Instead of anything intelligent or a reasonable defense your "whataboutism" is an ad hominem argument of illogical jujitsu of deflecting the argument in another direction.It's a cheap attempt to keep your readers knee deep in cynicism and distrust and in a constant state of manipulated outrage even when the subject is no longer relevant. Once Daniel you gave thought provoking reasoned arguments on numerous subjects some of which I found interesting and some not so much. But you always dwelled on morals and principles to make your point. Sadly you recently have digressed like many other columnist to simply staying relevant to your readers interest and your writing has taken the brunt of the change.


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  9. Anonymous12/11/19

    Hillary's next title: "101 Uses For A Dead Snitch: Epstein Did Not Kill Himself."

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  10. Charlie, Hillary's event horizon seems to be infinite. Or perhaps it's just infinite from our perspective.

    JohnOC, and she brought Christopher Steele too to recap the same "conservatives are Russian agents" scam they tried to pull in America.

    Moe, thanks

    Anonymous, that's a thought for Elizabeth Warren

    MMinLamesa, thank you

    Curmudgeon, do you really want to read the same exact things the media on the left and right are talking about? Are you really starved for more impeachment hearings coverage? Sorry, I'm not. I try to do a whole bunch of different things. Including material you won't see elsewhere.

    Susie, thank you, appreciate that

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  11. Daniel you make me laugh and think all at the same time, Jews are the best comedians.

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  12. Hillary Clinton is a daily, wretched reminder there is no justice.

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  13. Anonymous14/11/19

    If Hillary were to write a book about how she evaded going to prison for her at-home, high security, bathroom located, State Dept. email server that hosted top secret documents I'd buy it.

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  14. The Conservative Curmudgeon15/11/19

    Daniel: In answer to the above question you posed to me YES I would like to read something more relevant to what is happening than the same old tired Hillary columns. And may I point out YOU AREN'T doing anything we won't see elsewhere because that is the only tact FOX NEWS takes every night. I'm sure they could lend you their vast vault of footage that shows Hillary falling down to supplement your next column.

    It's simply a backhanded attempt to an deflect attention to an empty "whatabout" argument.

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  15. Anonymous16/11/19

    @ConservativeCurmudgeon
    Yes why would the actions of Hillary Clinton make anyone cynical? Why she's just a paragon of honesty (back room secret meetings w/the fascist OIC excepted).

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  16. Re: Conservative Curmudgeon! Man! This Hillary pig illegally stole the Democratic presidential nomination. She's an evil pig. What the hell are you whining about? Next is voter fraud. The Democrats haven't perfected that yet.

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  17. The Conservative Curmudgeon17/11/19

    @ Anonymous and Maureen:

    Obviously neither one of you have any idea at what I was getting at.

    I seriously doubt you have anything to worry about concerning corrupt Hillary in the future. But when your corrupt Republican party is knee deep in supporting someone who is probably facing impeachment on obstruction of justice, abuse of Power, violation of emolument clause and bribery I would dare say there is plenty to be worried about. Add to that he wants to lock up or investigate his political opponents and it comes close to making America a Banana Republic. But ignore all that and "look over there at the shiny object" so we can manipulate your outrage.

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  18. Anonymous19/11/19

    @TheLieberalCurmudgeon
    Yeah, the impeachment proceedings against Trump aren't just Trumped up political theater designed to subvert Trump's administration, their legitimate. Bwahaaahahahahahaha, pull the other one it plays The Internationale.

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  19. Anonymous20/11/19

    Curmudgeon;

    “Obviously neither one of you have any idea…”
    So, at which diploma mill do you spew your
    obstreperous rants at powerless students?
    Please be honest and remove “Conservative”
    from your name. I once gave you the benefit
    of the doubt. Thy name is Troll.

    Charlie

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  20. Hillary has degenerated into a caricature of Norma Desmond, as played by Gloria Swanson in the old movie, Sunset Blvd.

    Cops to Desmond: "We're are ready for your inauguration, Miss Clinton."

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  21. Anonymous27/11/19

    In addition to being among the best living American journalists, Mr. Greenfield also writes some of the best satire available on the web...

    "...meanwhile Maddow's explanation of how the space aliens conspired with the Russians to elect Trump so he could let them construct a base in Wisconsin and perform experiments on local cows continued to reign over the bestseller list."

    Brilliant!

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