Hillary Rodham Clinton and the 2016 Election

Michele Lockhart is senior lecturer of business communication at the University of Texas at Dallas.Kathleen Mollick is associate professor of English at Tarleton State University.

• Hillary Clinton’s “18 Million Cracks”: The Enduring Legacy of the Presidential Glass Ceiling, Diane M. BlairHillary’s Arkansas Comeback: Achieving Education Standards Reform, Margaret E. ScrantonSmart Power and Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Discourse: 2012–2016, Kathleen MollickFrom First Lady to Senator of New York: A Quantified-Qualitative Analysis of Hillary Clinton’s Political Rhetoric during the Four Democratic National Conventions, Michele LockhartAuthenticity, Authority, and Gender: Hard Choices as Professional Autobiography and Transnational Feminist Manifesto, Michelle Smith(Re)Writing Her Story: The Lives of Hillary Clinton’s Autobiographical Self, A. Fletcher ColeChelsea’s Mom, Charlotte’s Grandma: Negotiating a New Role in the Presidential Construction of Hillary Clinton, Debbie Jay Williams“Who Run the World?”: Hillary Clinton and the Use of Pop Feminism as Rhetorical Strategy, Rebecca S. RichardsA Sartorial Tapestry: The Rhetorical Shifts of Hillary Rodham Clinton, Farris Lee Francis and Rochelle Gregory“Let’s Chat”: Hillary’s Cyber Presence as Rhetorical Space, Sara Hillin

Lockhart and Mollick also edited Political Women: Language and Leadership (2013) and Global Women Leaders: Studies in Feminist Political Rhetoric (2014). Comprising an introduction and ten scholarly essays—most by professors of English, rhetoric, and feminism—the present volume focuses on the rhetoric of the woman who may be the US's first female president. The first four essays look at the evolution of Hillary Clinton's language, especially at national nominating conventions. The next three examine her role as an author, with special attention to her books Living History (2003) and Hard Choices (2014). The last three essays discuss her public persona, which now includes the role of grandmother. The contributors observe that female candidates have special shoals to navigate, including sometimes inordinate attention to their clothing. This reviewer found Margaret Scranton's chapter on Clinton's work on education reform in Arkansas to be particularly useful; also of special interest are Rebecca Richards's chapter on Clinton's use of ‘pop feminism’ and a final chapter by Sara Hillin on Clinton's cyber presence.... Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.