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Copyright © 2018 by Amy Chozick
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Source ISBN: 9780008296711
Ebook Edition © April 2018 ISBN: 9780008296735
Version: 2018-09-26
For Bobby
I know of no American who starts from a higher level of aspiration than the journalist. He is, in his first phase, genuinely romantic. He plans to be both an artist and a moralist—a master of lovely words and a merchant of sound ideas. He ends, commonly, as the most depressing jackass in his community—that is, if his career goes on to what is called success. He becomes the repository of all its worst delusions and superstitions. He becomes the darling of all its frauds and idiots, and the despair of all its honest men.
—H. L. MENCKENM
I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession, which I entered before my husband was in public life.
—HILLARY CLINTON, 1992
Contents
13: “What Makes You So Special?”
20: “Spontaneity Is Embargoed Until 4:00 p.m.”
22: “I Am Driving Long Distances in Iowa and May Be Slower to Respond”