Last week, Hillary Clinton released her new book, "What Happened," a first-person tell-all that documents her surprising loss to Donald J. Trump in the 2016 presidential election.
Now the book is ranked No. 1. on Amazon's Best Sellers list.
It's beating out New England Patriots' quarterback Tom Brady's "The TB12 Method: How to Achieve a Lifetime of Sustained Peak Performance," which comes in at No. 2, as well as two novels from 1986: Margaret Atwood's dystopian classic, "The Handmaid's Tale," and Stephen King's horror classic, "It: A Novel."
The book has already sold more than 300,000 copies, and is still going strong.
I am less than half way through the book but so far I have found it to be the most authentic and unguarded book from Hillary Clinton that I have every read.
At times Hillary is almost plaintive in her attempts to understand what it about her which inspires so much hatred.
She points out that her political ideology is right in step with her husband's, with Joe Biden's, with President Obama's, and even with Bernie Sanders who she voted in synch with 93% of the time.
And yet the hatred directed at her was substantially more intense than that faced by most of her colleagues. (With the possible exception of Obama, and we all know why that was the case.)
Very early in the book Hillary addresses her mistakes, though some reviewers have suggested that she only focuses on others. After that she really seems to be attempting to examine as dispassionately as possible all of the other factors which helped determined the outcome of the election.
Some of that focus is definitely concerning the deeply entrenched sexism which is still a big part of the political DNA in America.
As a man I recognized the accuracy of some of Hillary's observations, but I really feel that women are going to understand it in a more fundamental way than I ever could.
I am not yet sure if I will ultimately find this book cathartic, because right now it is still just ripping off scabs, both hers and mine.
However if you have not yet purchased the book I do recommend it, especially for those people who still deeply dislike Hillary or think she was a "flawed candidate." For THAT audience I think this book may serve as a revelation. (And yes I recognize that most of them would never even consider reading it.)
Speaking of sexism and hated, the other book mentioned in the CNBC article was Katy Tur's book "Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History," which is currently number one in Amazon's Humor and Entertainment category.
I have not yet purchased that book, but it is on my list.
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