There is her long-delayed apology for her vote for the Iraq War, but more often than not the book presents her as a levelheaded decisionmaker, whose foreign policy recommendations were right, even if sometimes unheeded by President Barack Obama, her onetime rival. It is filled with behind-the-scenes tales of meetings with foreign leaders and modestly revelatory insights into the Obama Administration’s inner sanctum. Hillary Clinton’s book isn’t a memoir in the traditional sense, but rather a delicately curated account of her time at the State Department clearly aimed at shoring up her vulnerabilities in preparation for a possible presidential campaign. “The time for another hard choice will come soon enough,” she writes in her book, a copy of which was reviewed by TIME. But Clinton says pay no attention - she has not yet made up her mind. In just about every way, it appears to be the continuation of a campaign that began the moment she left the Obama Administration. In many ways, the next few weeks are just more of the same: there will be lots more public speaking, as well as a campaign-style bus, courtesy of Ready for Hillary, the Clinton-insider sanctioned super PAC laying the groundwork for a campaign.
And there’s of course been the carefully targeted leaks of nuggets from the book and media interviews. But you can also say it began a year ago, when Clinton began hitting the lucrative speaking circuit. It officially begins Tuesday, when her book Hard Choices hits stores and mailboxes across the country by the hundreds of thousands. Sixteen months after leaving the State Department and six months before she decides whether to run for President again, Hillary Clinton is undertaking a rollout worthy of the highest office.
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