The Destruction of Hillary Clinton

By: Susan Bordo

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins

Publisher's summary

A play-by-play of the political forces and media culture that vilified and ultimately brought down Hillary Clinton during her 2016 Presidential campaign. The Destruction of Hillary Clinton is an answer to the question many have been asking: how did an extraordinarily well-qualified, experienced, and admired candidate - whose victory would have been as historic as Barack Obama's - come to be seen as a tool of the establishment, a chronic liar, and a talentless politician?

In this masterful narrative of the 2016 campaign year and the events that led up to it, Susan Bordo unpacks the right's assault on Clinton and her reputation, the way the left provoked suspicion and indifference among the youth vote, and the media's unprecedented influence.

Urgent, insightful, and engrossing, The Destruction of Hillary Clinton is an essential guide to understanding the most controversial presidential election in American history.

©2017 Susan Bordo (P)2017 Gildan Media LLC

Very well written

I really enjoyed this book, mostly from the view point from a woman almost my age. I have felt everyone of these situation that happened to Hillary in my adult business life. Women rights and equality is a fight we are still battling though it might have a different face and tactic even from those who believe they are progressive. We have to continue educating those individuals who do not understand, if by want or ignorance.
Thank you for writing this book.

Well done and worth reading

If you could sum up The Destruction of Hillary Clinton in three words, what would they be?

Painful, Accurate, Timely

What other book might you compare The Destruction of Hillary Clinton to and why?

The Handmaid's Tale is a good comparable read because it is the future, past and present for many women living in the United States and the "destruction" that we saw has far reaching implications for those who don't fit into one societal norm of gendered behavior. .

Any additional comments?

This was a great listen, although very difficult to re-visit. I appreciated Bordo's careful analysis and Huber's mispronunciation of "Sarandon." It is not an easy book because it reaffirms that many of us do not have any hope and that in my lifetime, we will not see any progressive president elected by the US. I hope one day Sanders' supporters will try to understand that you cannot just promise free tuition and it will happen; that Sanders' invoked old leftists tactics to divide women from "real progressive issues" and to imply white women are the establishment (without recognizing that these women are also battered, killed, subjected to violence and harassment, and no recourse in the courts if raped. The book is sad and sobering and also terrifying.

Absolute MUST READ!

I don’t care if you identify with the right, left, center, or otherwise, this book addresses issues we should ALL be mindful of regarding the affects of disinformation, & the media’s influential role in the development of the public’s consciousness. The media’s role is a crucial, bipartisan issue demanding our attention & criticism; as Americans, we must stand up & demand reliable, accurate information from all of our media sources if we have any hope of stabilizing & uniting our nation.

Very biased but worth the read

The author chooses to conclude most things in the favor of Clinton.. ie the Paula Jones case never went to trial because it was baseless rather than reality of the case settling out of court to limit the damage on both Clintons. Bernie supporters imaginary rigging of the DNC to favor HRC. She forgets to mention the women who accused Trump were all found to be false allegations. She is very negative towards Trump in every way. Still it’s fun listening to this book knowing Mrs Clinton will never be President. Had to stop the Epilogue, entirely false and biased from the first sentence. I assume she doesn’t credit President Trump for his numerous accomplishments so I did not waste my time.

Hillary should have won

The real truth behind the 2016 election. How we eelected Donald Trump as President lol

And then there was Hilary!

This was a clear and concise explanation of what happened, when it happened and why did it happen. We all expected a fair and untethered election....it was neither. It was an illegitimate election of a very poor businessman, but a conman, running for the highest office in the world with the help of Russia and our US Press and of course, the FBI (who refused to comment on the ongoing Russia investigation of the president but who did not mind commenting on the ongoing investigation of Hillary).
I never thought I would live to see the day when our Congress would let the Russians decide who would be our president. Yes, Hillary made a few mistakes....but the truth is stranger than fiction. If we survive this administration we can never let this happen again!

I wish Hillary had someone else read it to us, who anger was both a distraction and annoyance, although I can fully understand all of her emotions.

Excellent Analysis

This wonderful book fully explores the role of the media in creating, deploying and perpetuating a deeply skewed vision of Hillary Clinton, one which bore no relation to the actual Hillary Clinton. And it shows how that skewed vision cost us, the American people, a Presidency of warmth, strength and care.

Welcomed Analysis of the 2016 Election

Bordo lays out in convincing detail how the character assassination of Hillary Clinton, begun early in her career, was simply ramped up during her presidential candidacy by a number of forces, including Russian and FBI interference, the attacks on her by both the Left and Right, as well the unrelenting negative media coverage. The devastating result, we now know—besides the loss of the election by perhaps the most competent presidential candidate in history—led to the election of a wannabe autocrat and the weakening of our democracy.

Nothing new here

Well written but obvious description of the last election. May be of more interest once this becomes history.

Loaded with inaccuracies

Expressed the exact opposite of how the mainstream media covered the election. Hillary Clinton was not a very good candidate. The main stream media vilified Donald Trump at every turn.

This author did not capture that her trustworthy issues are real and well documented. Her state department made may mistakes in Benghazi and she lied about lied about it.

The author was right about one thing though. Hillary was unelectable for many reasons.