At the moment, Hillary Clinton's "Hard Choices" commands about $100 on eBay for a signed copy...and most of these are signed with just one word: "Hillary."
Oh, it's making a "great gift idea" for a lot of people. It might be more of an investment for some who think she stands a good chance of becoming a Presidential candidate or The President.
Speaking of gifts...what would you get Hillary if you were shopping in a bookstore?
She has a pretty long list of favorite authors: "I will read anything by Laura Hillenbrand, Walter Isaacson, Barbara Kingsolver, John le Carre, John Grisham, Hilary Mantel, Toni Morrison, Anna Quindlen and Alice Walker...
Anybody else? Yes, Janet Evanovich "makes me laugh."
It turns out Hillary's a fan of best-selling authors who keep churning out new volumes in a continuing series:
"I automatically read the latest installments from Alex Berenson, Linda Fairstein, Sue Grafton, Donna Leon, Katherine Hall Page, Louise Penny, Daniel Silva, Alexander McCall Smith, Charles Todd and Jacqueline Winspear."
If you get to talking classics, Hillary will tell you that her favorites include "The Brothers Karamazov," "Pride and Prejudice," and "Schindler's List." You might talk about favorite short stories by Alice Munro, or her choices in classic poets: T.S. Eliot, Pablo Neruda and W.B. Yeats.
So there you are...Hillary is actually very easy to shop for. Your "Hard Choices" would just be finding a new novel by any of the above that she hasn't already snapped up. Well, she can always return the item for something else. That's economics...and probably something she's learned about in reading one of her favorite books on finance..."After the Music Stopped" by Alan Blinder.
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