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Clinton to reflect on 2016 election loss in book of essays
NEW YORK — Hillary Clinton has a lot of plans for 2017, including some reflections on her stunning loss last fall to Donald Trump.
The former secretary of state, senator and first lady is working on a book of personal essays expected to come out Sept. 26, Simon & Schuster said Wednesday. The book, still untitled, is structured around quotations that have inspired her.
The publisher said Clinton will use the quotes to “tell stories from her life, up to and including her experiences in the 2016 presidential campaign” and into her thoughts on the future.
“These are the words I live by,” Clinton said in a statement. “These quotes have helped me celebrate the good times, laugh at the absurd times, persevere during the hard times and deepen my appreciation of all life has to offer.”
Clinton, 69, will also resume her ties with the Harry Walker Agency, the speakers bureau she worked with after she stepped down in 2013 as secretary of state.
Clinton’s lucrative career as a speaker, notably her talks sponsored by Goldman Sachs, were criticized by opponent Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and others as a sign that she was too close to the financial industry.
Clinton does have some speeches arranged. On March 8, she will address an International Women’s Day event organized by Vital Voices, the initiative Clinton and then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright founded in 1997. Clinton will speak at a gala for the LGBT Community Center in New York on April 20, and, on May 26, she will give the commencement address at her alma mater, Wellesley College.
Wednesday’s announcements mark a growing reemergence for Clinton, who ran twice for the White House, hoping to become the country’s first woman president. She lost to Barack Obama in the 2008 Democratic primaries and, despite winning the popular vote, to Trump in 2016.
“It Takes a Village” was her first book and came out in 1995, when she was first lady. She has since published “Dear Socks, Dear Buddy” and the memoirs “Living History,” which covered her life through her years as first lady and her Senate run in New York in 2000, and “Hard Choices,” about her years as secretary of state.
Financial terms were not disclosed.