Why 2008 Changed Everything for Women
Rebecca Traister followed Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign from its beginnings for Salon magazine. But it wasn’t until Clinton was out of the running – and when John McCain chose Sarah Palin as his running mate – that Traister began to see the story that would become Big Girls Don’t Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women. “What became clear to me was that this was an epic story about women’s history and American politics and the presidency, one that had shadows that extended back to the founding of …
