Hillary Takes New York—or Union Square, Anyway

By the time I got to the Barnes & Noble in Union Square, at shortly after 9 A.M. on Tuesday, the line for Hillary Clinton’s 11 A.M. book signing stretched around the corner, up Park Avenue South, and down Eighteenth Street. (Apparently, some of the people up front had slept on the sidewalk to get a good place.) Having speculated about Hillary’s goals in publishing a second memoir, “Hard Choices,” which covers her four years as Secretary of State, I was keen to get hold of a copy, and also to witness the former First Lady, Senator for New York, and Secretary of State’s reëntry into retail politics, carefully staged as it would undoubtedly be.

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