Hillary Rodham Clinton signed copies of her new memoir, “Hard Choices,” at a Barnes & Noble in New York on Tuesday. Credit Chang W. Lee/The New York Times
Source: New York Times
JUNE 10, 2014
Andre Morales, a 36-year-old from Brooklyn, arrived before 3 a.m. Tuesday and planned to ask Hillary Rodham Clinton how it felt to work for President Obama after he had defeated her in the 2008 Democratic primary.
Donna Gabriel, a 65-year-old retiree, said she wanted to be the first one in line on Monday afternoon. Jacquelyn Corsentino, 21, a college student, is writing her senior thesis on why Mrs. Clinton would make a good president. She took a train from New Jersey and, starting at 6 a.m., waited in line for more than five hours on an overcast morning outside the flagship Barnes & Noble in Union Square in Manhattan.
Finally, after a carefully scripted rollout that included high-profile television interviews and planned leaks to the news media, Mrs. Clinton arrived just after 11 a.m. for her first book signing on a nationwide tour to promote her new memoir, “Hard Choices.” Wearing a hot-pink blazer and a splashy silver necklace, she waved and thanked the crowd of more than 1,000 people, many of whom had slept outside the store. They bought their $35 hardcover copies in advance at 30 percent off and snaked through the ropes set up on the fourth floor of the bookstore.
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