Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty
by Hillary Rodham Clinton
View on GoodreadsHillary Clinton's 2024 essay collection — written after she'd left active electoral politics — across topics from marriage and faith to climate, AI, and the state of democracy, with an older and less defensive voice than her earlier books.
Core ideas
- The book reads as a deliberate departure from candidate posture — Clinton writes about her marriage with more candor about its difficulty, about Bill Clinton's relationship to MeToo with more critical distance, about her own missteps with less litigation.
- The democracy chapters return to themes from What Happened with the benefit of seven additional years' perspective — less defensive about 2016, more concerned about the structural trajectory.
- The book's most-cited material is the AI and climate-future writing, where Clinton engages substantively with the policy questions rather than performing positioning.
Published2024
Pages324
ISBN9781668017234
ReadJan 2025
