📖 Hillary Rodham Clinton: Do All the Good You Can

Hillary Rodham Clinton grew up in a small midwestern town with nice parents. As a child, she was always encouraged to speak up, even when it was not normalized for a woman to participate in higher roles that required more education. From a young age, she was inspired by the quote "do all the good you can." Her town was mainly republican, which caused her to be republican for her younger years. In high school, she advocated for a "Republican club" where she was the captain and held multiple different debates to the point one classmate said "she's going to be president one day." During college, she was extremely passionate, however, her heart was leaning towards democrat while her brain was leaning towards republican. Slowly, she became a democrat after seeing no senator caring about what she believed was the most important and most undervalued minority in America: children, as well as meeting her future husband Bill Clinton, who inspired many of her future political campaigns. I would recommend this book because it provides an easy way to explain the life of an important political figure without getting into extremely complicated parts.

希拉里·罗德姆·克林顿成长于美国中西部的一个小镇,拥有一对慈爱的父母。孩提时代,她总是受到鼓励要敢于发声——即便在当时,女性涉足那些需要更高学历和承担更重责任的显要职位,还远未成为一种常态。自幼起,她便深受这句格言的感召:"尽你所能,行一切善。"由于她所在的城镇以共和党支持者居多,她在年少时期也曾是一名共和党人。高中时代,她积极倡导成立了"共和党俱乐部"并担任主席;她组织了多场辩论赛,表现之出色,甚至让一位同学预言道:"她将来一定会当上总统。" 大学期间,希拉里展现出了极大的热情与活力;然而,当时她的情感倾向已偏向民主党,而理性思维却仍倾向于共和党。随着时间的推移,她逐渐转而成为一名民主党人。这一转变的契机在于:她发现没有任何一位参议员真正关注她心中那个在美国最为重要却又最被忽视的弱势群体——儿童;此外,她还结识了未来的丈夫比尔·克林顿,后者在日后对她的许多政治竞选活动产生了深远的影响。 我之所以推荐这本书,是因为它以一种通俗易懂的方式,生动地讲述了一位重要政治人物的生平故事,且并未陷入过于晦涩难懂的细节泥潭之中。