PanThe NationI’d say American Canto is a sad and bizarrely told story about a motherless girl who technically did have a mother well into adulthood, and a daddy’s girl whose sanitation worker father did his best but could not protect her from her abusive, alcoholic mother ... Oh, also: This is really a book about Donald Trump ... [A] sad book ... These deeply disturbed people are our journalistic elites, my friends. And you wonder why our democracy is hanging by a thread?
Hillary Rodham Clinton
PositiveThe Nation...the book is mostly a lively, unflinching read ...struck by the criticism that she’s not criticizing herself ... While it was painful to relive some of it...I can imagine writing the book has been cathartic for her. As Clinton repeatedly tells us, she replays all of this pretty much every day ...argue that the media’s hostility to this book stems partly from the fact that Clinton is pretty unforgiving in examining the role of the media ... By far the most controversial sections of the book will be where she lays out the evidence for Russian meddling in the election, and the possibility that figures in the Trump campaign colluded. Clinton finds no smoking gun, but I find her evidence convincing — and disturbing.
