Fact checking the alternate history and politics of Curtis Sittenfeld’s Rodham

حوالي ٥ سنوات فى أخبار الساعة

The Vox Book Club is linking to Bookshop.org to support local and independent booksellers.
Curtis Sittenfeld’s novel Rodham postulates a theory: If Hillary Rodham had never married Bill Clinton, the past 30 years of American politics would be fundamentally changed — sometimes subtly, and sometimes in huge, world-bending ways.
Rodham isn’t a political treatise or textbook that’s aiming for documentary levels of realism in the political events it tweaks. It’s a work of fiction that uses the real-life Hillary Clinton to examine ideas about power, gender, and the role of charisma in politics, and most of the changes to real …
The post Fact-checking the alternate history and politics of Curtis Sittenfeld’s Rodham appeared first on Hour News.

ذكر فى هذا الخبر
شارك الخبر على