The Hillary Trap ; Looking for Power in All the Wrong Places

by Laura Ingraham

In The Hillary Trap, journalist and media personality Laura Ingraham turns a razor sharp eye on this view of Hillary and questions her status as a metaphor for the modern empowered woman. Ingraham suggests that if anything, Hillary's mix of opportunism, acquiescence, and dependency has set women back rather than leading them forward. This is the Hillary Trap.

Genres: Nonfiction

Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Laura Ingraham is the most-listened-to woman in America on political talk radio. The Laura Ingraham Show is ranked in radio's Top 10. Laura is the Editor-in-Chief and Co-Founder of the website LifeZette.com, a cultural and political web destination for conservatives and independents. She is a regular Contributor on the Fox News Channel, a former white-collar defense attorney, and a Supreme Court law clerk, Laura is a cancer survivor and advocates for increased domestic and international adoption. She resides in Washington, DC with her three children.

Reviews

[Joan · Rating 3 out of 5]

By page 50 I realized two important concepts- first the author thinks her opinions are always right, and second, when she wrote Hillary Clinton, she usually meant extremist Democratic party members. Actually I did agree with many of the authors opinions: the chapter on gun control prompted me to make a date with husband to the firing range to learn how to use his guns, but the chapter on education gave me the urge to burn the book (she prefers rote memorization and thinks teaching children to learn as a goal is weak, and then there is the whole voucher thing...) While I will never read this again, it was a good exercise in determining fact from carefully selected examples to prove an extremist point.

[Kristi Miller · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely everyone who thinks that Hillary is good for this country needs to read this book. Verify the research - it's worth it.

[Hannah · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nothing new here. Yes she is a conniving shrew. How many more books can cover that?

[Riley Lynch · Rating 3 out of 5]

Got 3/4 of the way through the book and finally put it down. This basically reads like a handbook of why not to be a liberal woman. Frankly, I found it somewhat convincing at times, but overall it's loosely organized and lacks footnotes/a bibliography, which would lend it more legitimacy.

If Ingraham simply wrote less, and stuck to 3-5 prongs per chapter, this would be a more effective book. That being said, maybe her goal was simply to sell to an existing audience, rather than actually convince anyone of anything.