WHAT IF HILLARY RODHAM HAD TURNED DOWN BILL CLINTON'S PROPOSAL OF MARRIAGE? 'Awfully
opinionated for a girl' is what they call Hillary as she grows up in her Chicago suburb. Smart
diligent and a bit plain that's the general consensus. Then Hillary goes to college and her
star rises. At Yale Law School she continues to be a leader- and catches the eye of driven
handsome and charismatic Bill. But when he asks her to marry him Hillary gives him a firm No.
The rest as they say isn't history. How might things have turned out for them for America
for the world itself if Hillary Rodham had really turned down Bill Clinton? With her sharp but
always compassionate eye Sittenfeld explores the loneliness moral ambivalence and iron
determination that characterise the quest for high office as well as the painful compromises
demanded of female ambition in a world ruled by men. Uncannily astute and witty in the telling
RODHAM is a brilliant reimagining - an unmissable literary landmark and truly a novel of our
times.
