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Living History
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| Author | Hillary Rodham Clinton |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
| Publication date | June 9, 2003 |
| Media type | Hardcover |
| Pages | 562 |
| ISBN | ISBN 978-0-74-322224-2 |
Living History is the autobiography of United States Senator and former First Lady Hillary Clinton (ISBN 978-0-74-322224-2). It was released in 2003.
In December 2000, Simon & Schuster agreed to pay Clinton a reported $8 million advance for what became Living History - a record figure to an author for an advance at that time. Critics charged that the book deal, coming soon after her election to the U.S. Senate, but before being sworn into office, was not in adherence to the ethical standards required for members of the U.S. Senate. [1] However, in February 2001, the Senate Ethics Committee gave Clinton approval for the deal. [2]
The book sold more than one million copies in the first month following publication.
Her audio recording of Living History earned her a Grammy nomination in the Best Spoken Word Album category in 2003.
Clinton reportedly used three ghostwriters for Living History, veteran ghostwriter Maryanne Vollers, speechwriter Alison Muscatine, and researcher Ruby Shamir. [3]. Clinton's acknowledgment section stated: "This book may not have taken a village to write, but it certainly took a superb team ... The smartest decision I made was to ask Lissa Muscatine, Maryanne Vollers and Ruby Shamir to spend two years of their lives working with me. Lissa [was] responsible for many of the words in my speeches as First Lady and in this book ... Maryanne [has] the rare gift of understanding how to help another's voice emerge ... Ruby [had the job of] amassing, reviewing and synthesizing millions of words written about me."[Living History, p. 529.] However, the three women did not receive co-writing credit on the book's cover, unlike for example, the co-writing credit fellow Senator John Edwards gave to ghostwriter John Auchard on his book Four Trials [4] and fellow Senator John McCain gave to administrative assistant Mark Salter on his books Faith of My Fathers, Worth the Fighting For, Why Courage Matters, and Character is Destiny.
A paperback edition was released in April 2004 with an additional short afterword in which Clinton described her experiences in doing book signing events.[5]