How I Lost By Hillary Clinton
Introduced and annotated by JOE LAURIA
With a foreword by JULIAN ASSANGE
“Politics is like sausage being made. It is unsavory, and it always has been that way … So, you need both a public and a private position.”
—Hillary Clinton speaking privately to a conference of apartment developers
“Clinton lost the 2016 election, Trump didn't win it. How I Lost by Hillary Clinton is a vital rallying call against the type of triangulating politics that may defeat Trump in 2020, but will never defeat Trumpism.” —Bhaskar Sunkara, editor, Jacobin
“Unreconstructed Hillaryites like to greet every outrage from Trump with ‘but her emails, amirite?,’ as if they didn’t matter. Joe Lauria expertly shows why they do—how they reveal what an awful candidate she was, and how we ended up with this dismal regime.”
—Doug Henwood, author of My Turn: Hillary Clinton Targets the Presidency
“Joe Lauria has written an exciting eye-opener, involving the doings of perpetrators and self-serving manipulators—compelling true stories far more gripping than anything that has been fabricated” —Michael Parenti, author of Profit Pathology and Other Indecencies
“Joe Lauria’s book on the perfidy of Hillary Clinton’s public and private career exposes the arrogance of a public figure beyond comprehension and shows her disdain for the majority of the American electorate. Lauria lets Hillary make his case, letting her own words reveal the crassness of the Hillary and Bill Clinton machine.”
—Mike Gravel, former U.S. Senator and 2008 Democratic presidential candidate
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About the Book
Judging by the stance of the leadership of the Democratic Party and much of the media, Hillary Clinton’s devastating loss in the presidential election of November 2016 was all the fault of pernicious Russian leaks, unwarranted FBI investigations and a skewed electoral college. Rarely blamed was the party’s decision to run a deeply unpopular candidate on an uninspiring platform.
At a time of widespread dissatisfaction with business-as-usual politics, the Democrats chose to field a quintessential insider. Her campaign dwelt little on policies, focusing overwhelmingly on the personality of her opponent.
That this strategy was a failure is an understatement. Losing an election to someone with as little competence or support from his own party as Donald Trump marked an extraordinary fiasco.
The refusal of the Democratic leadership to identify the real reasons for their defeat is not just a problem of history. If Democrats persevere with a politics that prioritizes well-off professionals rather than ordinary Americans, they will leave the field open to right wing populism for many years to come.
Drawing on the WikiLeaks releases of Clinton’s talks at Goldman Sachs and the e mails of her campaign chief John Podesta, as well as key passages from her public speeches, How I Lost By Hillary Clinton also includes extensive commentary by award-winning journalist Joe Lauria, and a foreword by Julian Assange, editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks.
It provides, in the words of the Democratic candidate and her close associates, a riveting, unsparing picture of the disastrous campaign that delivered America to President Trump, and a stark warning of a mistake that must not be repeated.
262 pages • Paperback ISBN 978-1-682190-85-2 • E-book 978-1-682190-86-9
About the Contributors
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Joe Lauria is an author and former Wall Street Journal correspondent who has also reported for the Boston Globe and The Sunday Times (London), among other newspapers. |
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Julian Assange is the editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks. He is the author of Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet (OR Books, 2012) and When Google Met WikiLeaks (OR Books, 2014). He is currently a refugee under the protection of the government of Ecuador, and lives in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. |
In the Media
- JOE LAURIA speaks to CHRIS HEDGES about the plight of Julian Assange on RT’s On Contact (11/28/2018)
- JOE LAURIA on the Trump-Putin summit at Loud & Clear (7/19/2018)
- “HOW I LOST puts the spotlight firmly on Clinton.” A review at Morning Star. (8/8/2017)
- “The single best and most interesting book that has so far appeared about the 2016 election.” The Duran on HOW I LOST (8/1/2017)
- “While Trump Jr’s busy spilling the beans, Hillary Clinton makes her own confession.” HOW I LOST in The Canary (7/17/2017)
- “Not necessarily the news.” JOE LAURIA‘s media criticism is cited at RT (7/12/2017)
- “How Hillary Clinton’s Goldman Sachs Speeches Cost Her the 2016 Election.” An excerpt from HOW I LOST at Truthdig (7/11/2017)
- “Hiding US Lies about Libyan Invasion.” JOE LAURIA in Consortium News (7/11/2017)
- “This book tears through the cover-ups to reveal the grisly, bloody reality of our rulers’ sordid sausage factory.” HOW I LOST is reviewed at Socialist Review (7/10/2017)
- JOE LAURIA interviewed at The Monitor on Houston Public Radio (7/3/2017)
- “The anti-Russian frenzy hit depths not seen since the McCarthy witch hunt.” An excerpt from HOW I LOST at Truthdig (6/28/2017)
- “Entertaining, albeit terrifying, reading.” HOW I LOST is reviewed at Socialist Worker (6/20/2017)
- “The Clinton sense of entitlement knew no limits.” HOW I LOST is reviewed at The American Conservative (6/16/2017)
- JOE LAURIA speaks to Scott Horton at the Libertarian Institute on HOW I LOST (6/16/2017)
- “A clear picture of the 1964 Goldwater Girl comes across.” HOW I LOST is reviewed at Dandelion Salad (6/5/2017)
- JOE LAURIA appears on the Catskill Review of Books program on WJFF (5/25/2017)
- JOE LAURIA discusses HOW I LOST on The Peter Collins Show (5/24/2017)
- Hillary Clinton: The Goldman Sachs Speeches in The New York Times (11/17/2016)
- Hillary Clinton: The Goldman Sachs Speeches in In These Times (11/10/2016)
- Hillary Clinton: The Goldman Sachs Speeches in Bustle (11/4/2016)
- Hillary Clinton: The Goldman Sachs Speeches in Stern (11/4/2016)
- “She already got paid for those”: Hillary Clinton: The Goldman Sachs Speeches in TheWrap (11/4/2016)
- “Now we can all profit from learning what the likely future president says behind closed doors”: Julian Assange in The Bookseller (11/4/2016)
- “Clinton’s Goldman Sachs remarks to be published as book”: Boston Globe (11/2/2016)
