--- title: Hillary Clinton Teases Her Book, and a 2016 Bid description: Clinton’s much-anticipated book is due out early next month, but early glimpses haven't given away much canonical: https://time.com/119405/hillary-clinton-book-hard-choices-2/ author: Jay Newton-Small article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-27T17:31:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-07-21T07:15:10.658Z article:section: Politics og:title: Hillary Clinton Teases Her Book, and a 2016 Bid og:description: Clinton’s much-anticipated book is due out early next month, but early glimpses haven't given away much og:url: https://time.com/119405/hillary-clinton-book-hard-choices-2/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt95912edc07d553da/698690f3adae445f8954343f/hillary-clinton-book.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Hillary Rodham Clinton og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hillary Clinton Teases Her Book, and a 2016 Bid twitter:description: Clinton’s much-anticipated book is due out early next month, but early glimpses haven't given away much twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt95912edc07d553da/698690f3adae445f8954343f/hillary-clinton-book.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The 5 Least Mind-Blowing Things About Hillary Clinton’s Book Tease  by [Jay Newton-Small](/author/jay-newton-small/)  ## Jay Newton-Small May 27, 2014 5:31 PM CUT  Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaking in Washington on May 14, 2014. Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaking in Washington on May 14, 2014.Cliff Owen—AP  by [Jay Newton-Small](/author/jay-newton-small/)  ## Jay Newton-Small May 27, 2014 5:31 PM CUT Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock with no media access for the last month, you’ll be well aware that former First Lady, former Secretary of State and the once-and-potentially-future presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has a book coming out next month. _Vogue_ readers got a first glimpse of _Hard Choices_ in [Mother’s Day excerpts](http://www.vogue.com/magazine/article/hillary-clinton-book-hard-choices/http://www.vogue.com/magazine/article/hillary-clinton-book-hard-choices/ "undefined") which drummed up a million advance purchases of the book, but Clinton revealed more about the memoir in an author’s note on Tuesday. In it, she explores her reasons for wanting to write her eleventh tome — if you count some of her more academic early offerings — this one on her tenure as Secretary of State. But the [sneak peak ](http://www.hillaryclintonmemoir.com/excerpt "undefined")doesn’t give away much about what the book actually contains — and what was included is hardly surprising. Here are five key things she was either bound to mention, or decided to skip: **1\. Not mentioned: Monica** The book is called _Hard Choices_, she says, because of all the hard choices in life that make us who we are, whether that’s a parent, a politician or a world leader. Though she mentions the choice of “whether to get married—or stay married,” she avoids mention of a certain former White House intern who made waves with [an interview of her own](http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2014/05/monica-lewinsky-speaks "undefined") this month, Monica Lewinsky. And, anyway, the book is about Clinton’s time as secretary of state, so despite referencing her early choices in life in the tease, she quickly moves on to focus on her choices in office. **2\. Mentioned: Osama Bin Laden** Not unsurprisingly, the lead choice is the decision to kill Osama bin Laden, which Clinton pushed for behind the scenes. Given its prominence in the teaser, it would seem this will be her top hard choice—and a very successful one at that—in her book. **3\. Not mentioned: Benghazi** Some of Clinton’s less successful hard choices go unmentioned, including her response to the attack in Benghazi, Libya that claimed the lives of Amb. Chris Stevens and two other Americans. She does mention some regrets, though. “As is usually the case with the benefit of hindsight, I wish we could go back and revisit certain choices,” she says. We’ll all have to wait until the book’s release on June 10 to find out what those choices were. **4\. Mentioned: Hatred for the press** In recent weeks [much](http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/hillary-clinton-media-105901.html "undefined") has been [written](http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/06/02/140602fa%5Ffact%5Fauletta "undefined") about Clinton’s potential 2016 bid, including the fact her biggest hitch is having to deal with the media she loathes. That comes through in her teaser. --- > “” --- **5\. Mentioned: A tantalizing hint** For anyone hoping and dreaming that Clinton will run for president in 2016, she gives yet another vague hint that she’s leaning that way. She signs off the letter: “One thing that has never been a hard choice for me is serving our country. It has been the greatest honor of my life.” So, perhaps the choice to serve again isn’t so agonizing after all? ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/119405/hillary-clinton-book-hard-choices-2/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/119405/hillary-clinton-book-hard-choices-2/"},"headline":"The 5 Least Mind-Blowing Things About Hillary Clinton’s Book Tease","datePublished":"2014-05-27T17:31:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-07-21T07:15:10.658Z","description":"Clinton’s much-anticipated book is due out early next month, but early glimpses haven't given away much","url":"https://time.com/119405/hillary-clinton-book-hard-choices-2/","keywords":["2016 Election","Hillary Clinton","2016 Election topic","2016","Benghazi","Osama Bin laden","book","TIME 100","secretary of state"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt95912edc07d553da/698690f3adae445f8954343f/hillary-clinton-book.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jay Newton-Small","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/jay-newton-small/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt95912edc07d553da/698690f3adae445f8954343f/hillary-clinton-book.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Hillary Rodham Clinton","caption":"Hillary Rodham Clinton","creditText":"Cliff Owen—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/119405/hillary-clinton-book-hard-choices-2/","name":"The 5 Least Mind-Blowing Things About Hillary Clinton’s Book Tease"}}]}] ```