What Happened

"What Happened is Hillary Clinton’s account of running for, and eventually losing, the presidency to Donald Trump. It’s at times a chatty campaign memento, a policy primer, a timeline and an autopsy of what exactly went wrong. Clinton is charming and even funny at times, without trying to paint herself in too flattering of a light. If you’re wondering who this book is for, though, that may be irrelevant: It reads like a book Clinton had to write, audience be damned. If Trump’s combative inauguration speech was “a howl from the white nationalist gut,” as Clinton puts it, her book is a howl from the gut of Hermione Granger – the embattled cry of the hypercompetent woman who desperately wishes the world were a meritocracy."

"In 'What Happened,' Hillary Clinton has an aside in which she describes her addiction to Pepperidge Farm Goldfish Crackers... Man. That is literary deadpan at its finest and my first big cathartic laugh almost since election night."