Her Way

Critical Praise

"Her Way is a reporter's dream assignment: reexamining some of the biggest political stories of the past twenty years armed with new information and the invaluable benefit of 20/20 hindsight. Pulitzer prize-winning New York Times investigative reporters Gerth and Van Natta take on the challenge with significant experience and a certain gusto."
-EdgeBoston.com

"This book could be a starting point for research into Hillary Clinton's life. The over 30 pages of endnotes could certainly lead to other source material. Worth reading if you want to better understand Hillary Rodham Clinton."
-Armchairinterviews.com

"Just published are the two latest entries in the Hillary canon: "A Woman in Charge," by Carl Bernstein, and "Her Way," by Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta Jr. In familiar fashion, they chart her now seemingly inevitable progress from child of the conservative Chicago suburbs to Wellesley antiwar commencement speaker to Arkansas political wife to first lady to New York senator to 2008 presidential candidate. It is a "Pilgrim's Progress" for our times -- and her route may soon double back to the White House."
-Salon.com

"Her Way" by Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta Jr.—provide thorough, and often critical, looks at the Democratic front runner's life and career."
-msnbc.msn.com

"The overall impression created by this book is that two Hillary Clintons exist -- one a carefully airbushed and spin-doctored public woman, the other a real person driven by "raw political ambition" who will do or say anything, crush any opponent and seize upon any issue to get her where she wants to go. That may be true, but we just don't know yet."
-Bookreporter.com

"Her Way, a new book about Hillary Clinton, documents her entire Senate career and the triangulation and shiftiness in her stance regarding the war as she tried to keep step with public opinion."
-Alternet.org

"To say that Hillary Clinton is ambitious would be a gross understatement as the authors have done an excellent job of exposing that facet of her personality going back to the early days of her marriage to Bill. Clinton's political identity is constantly evolving as she works to build the image of an anti-war candidate despite having initially voted to support the invasion of Iraq. It is a delicate, on-going balancing act as she attempts to justify the decision without jeopardizing her presidential aspirations and it is the public’s response to Clinton the authors focus on. An enlightening look at this influential woman that leaves one wondering if there is anything to her beyond a burning desire to rise to the top."
-Monstersandcritics.com

"Throughout her career, Hillary has been alternately helped and hindered by her marriage to Bill Clinton. HER WAY unravels the mysteries of their political partnership—one of the most powerful and enigmatic in American history. It also explains why Hillary is such a polarizing figure. And more than any other book, it reveals what her ultimate hopes and ambitions are—for herself and for America.
-Shop.wnd.com

"The book is a deep investigative report on Senator Hillary Clinton's public record as a senator as well as her entire career."
-us-president.suite101.com

"The authors, not surprisingly, find tension in the relationship between the former first lady and former Veep Al Gore, based on secondary sources and unattributed interviews. Both policy wonks were scrambling to gain the ear of the president on a range of issues. That tension will resemble a tea party if a reinvented Gore jumps into the presidential primary pool this fall, setting the stage for the battle of the two 800-pound gorillas."
-Historywire.com

Just published are the two latest entries in the Hillary canon: "A Woman in Charge," by Carl Bernstein, and "Her Way," by Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta Jr. In familiar fashion, they chart her now seemingly inevitable progress from child of the conservative Chicago suburbs to Wellesley antiwar commencement speaker to Arkansas political wife to first lady to New York senator to 2008 presidential candidate. It is a "Pilgrim's Progress" for our times -- and her route may soon double back to the White House."
-Salon.com