John Preston

Hillary, Obama, Osama — and a hapless Bill

Who is Hillary Clinton? HRC, a biography by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, has sentences full of anecdotes but empty of analysis

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issue 22 February 2014

  • HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton

    Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes

    Hutchinson, pp. 448

The actor David Niven was once badgered by the American columnist William F. Buckley to introduce him to Marc Chagall, a neighbour of Niven’s in Switzerland. Buckley, a keen amateur painter, wanted to know what Chagall thought of his work. With grave misgivings, Niven agreed to set up a meeting.

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