Hillary Rodham Clinton

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois as Hillary Diane Rodham) is the junior United States Senator from New York, serving her freshman term since January 3, 2001. She was First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001, as the wife of President Bill Clinton.

Clinton's writings and recordings

As First Lady, she wrote a weekly newspaper column entitled "Talking It Over", focusing on her experiences and her observations of women, children, and families she encountered during her travels around the world.

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Her ghost-written 1996 book, It Takes a Village and Other Lessons Children Teach Us became a best-seller, and she received the 1997 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for her recording of it. The book references the African proverb that "it takes a village to raise a child."

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1996 - 1997 - Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album

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The book rankled opponents, who claimed that all it takes is a family to raise a child. http://www.libertynet.org/~edcivic/village.html Years later, Republican Senator Rick Santorum would title a book It Takes a Family in direct contrast to Clinton's. http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/07/06/santorum.book.ap/. Clinton's supporters assert that children rely on safe neighborhoods, good teachers, readily available health-care, and many other facets of "The Village" to be raised properly.

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Other books released by Clinton as First Lady include An Invitation to the White House and Dear Socks, Dear Buddy: Kids' Letters to the First Pets.

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Clinton's memoirs, as the 562-page book Living History, were released in 2003. It sold more than one million copies in the first month following publication. In anticipation of these sales, the publisher Simon & Schuster paid her an advance of $8 million—a record figure at that time. Her recording in that year of Living History earned her a second Grammy nomination in the Best Spoken Word Album category. Living History was translated into several foreign languages including Chinese.

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Living History - 2003 - Simon & Schuster - Chinese

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