I knew it was a bad idea when Hilary Clinton became the leader of the Democratic party - smacked of succession rather than democracy, she hadn't had such a stellar outing as Secretary of State, and both she and her husband left the White House in the '90s with more than a whiff of ordure trailing them.  

What were those Americans thinking? I thought.  It was another sign that there was something seriously wrong in the world's oldest modern democracy.  I had little idea of what was coming - I could never have imagined Trump as a serious contender for president, and still recoil when I think of it.  But a lot of his win had to do with Clinton as his opponent.  

Publishing a self-justifying book about her loss (who does that??) does not cast her in a better light, whatever Ms. Renzetti says.