“When Bill and Hillary Clinton walked out of the White House for the last time on January 20, 2001,

Publishers were just as interested. Simon and Schuster paid Hillary an eight million dollar advance for her memoir Living History, which arrived in June of 2003 with a first printing of one million copies and became an instant bestseller. Alfred A. Knopf paid Bill a reported fifteen million dollars for his own memoir, My Life, published in June of 2004 at nearly nine hundred pages and with a first print run of one and a half million copies. By the time Hillary’s Senate financial disclosure forms were filed for 2004, the legal obligations that had defined their departure from Washington were gone entirely. The speed of the reversal was striking even to people who had watched the Clintons closely for years. Two people who had spent their professional lives in public service, who had never accumulated meaningful personal wealth through politics, had left the most powerful residence in the world carrying a burden that would have stopped most people completely and turned it around in less than four years by doing what they had always done best, which was work, and talk, and write.”