![]() ![]() Just possibly, by the time that third volume is written, the first African-American president will have long since given way to the first woman to hold the office and Hillary and Bill will have spent more time in the White House than Eleanor and Franklin. Passages toward the end of the latest, on building the middle class at home and abroad and restoring the American dream for the twenty-first century, read like early drafts for an acceptance speech at the next Democratic convention. Taken together, the two volumes add up to nearly 1,200 pages, and a third can hardly be ruled out. * Volume two, picking up the story at the end of her 2008 presidential campaign, recounts her four years at the State Department as what she accurately enough but a tad vaingloriously calls “the chief diplomat of the most powerful nation on earth.” Volume one carried her all the way from her days as a Goldwater girl in Park Ridge, Illinois, to her years as a political lightning rod in the Clinton White House, then finally to the United States Senate, which was never going to be her last stop. The memoirs of Hillary Clinton have to be viewed, like their author, as a work in progress. ![]()
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