Hillary Clinton Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===''It Takes a Village'' and other writings=== In 1996, Clinton presented a vision for American children in the book ''[[It Takes a Village|It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us]]''. In January 1996, she went on a ten-city book tour and made numerous television appearances to promote the book,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/17/style/chronicle-075248.html | title=Chronicle | last=Brozan | first=Nadine | newspaper=[[The New York Times]] | date=January 17, 1996 | access-date=July 28, 2007|quote= "It takes a village to raise a child"}}</ref> although she was frequently hit with questions about her involvement in the [[Whitewater (controversy)|Whitewater]] and [[Travelgate]] controversies.<ref name="nyt011496">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/18/us/on-book-tour-first-lady-courts-public.html | title= On Book Tour, Mrs. Clinton Defends Herself | first=Doreen | last=Carvajal | newspaper=[[The New York Times]] | date=January 14, 1996 | access-date=July 28, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04E5DA1139F934A25752C0A960958260 | title= With Resolve, First Lady Lays Out Defense | author=Purdum, Todd S. | newspaper=[[The New York Times]] | date=January 17, 1996 | access-date=July 28, 2007| author-link= Todd S. Purdum }}</ref> The book spent 18 weeks on the [[New York Times Best Seller list|''New York Times'' Best Seller List]] that year, including three weeks at number one.<ref>See results of [https://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/?action=click&contentCollection®ion=TopBar&WT.nav=searchWidget&module=SearchSubmit&pgtype=Homepage#/%22it+takes+a+village%22+%22best+sellers%22+week/since1851/allresults/1/allauthors/oldest/ this New York Times archive search]. On list January 28 through May 26, 1996. At number one February 4, 11 and 18.</ref> By 2000, it had sold 450,000 copies in hardcover and another 200,000 in paperback.<ref name="wapo-prep">{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2000/10/04/white-house-welcome/2be3bfdd-e26b-420b-a7f0-f9df48cc373b/ | title=White House Welcome | author=Roberts, Roxanne | newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] | date=October 4, 2000}}</ref> Clinton received the [[Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album]] in 1997 for the book's audio recording.{{sfn|Bernstein|2007|p=446}} Other books published by Clinton when she was the first lady include ''[[Dear Socks, Dear Buddy|Dear Socks, Dear Buddy: Kids' Letters to the First Pets]]'' (1998) and ''[[An Invitation to the White House|An Invitation to the White House: At Home with History]]'' (2000). In 2001, she wrote an afterword to the children's book ''[[Beatrice's Goat]]''.<ref name="auto">{{Cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=eyAiAAAAIBAJ&pg=2745,3345580 |title=Read a Book, Buy a Goat |author=Apuzzo, Matt |newspaper=[[The Day (New London)|The Day]] |date=November 16, 2005}}</ref> Clinton also published a weekly [[Print syndication|syndicated]] newspaper column titled "Talking It Over" from 1995 to 2000.<ref>{{cite news |publisher=[[BuzzFeed]] |first=Christopher |last=Massie |date=April 21, 2015 |url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/christophermassie/r-kelly-big-bird-and-28-other-highlights-from-hillary-clinto |title=R. Kelly, Big Bird, And 28 Other Highlights From Hillary Clinton's First Lady Columns}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.creators.com/opinion/hillary-clinton.html |title=Hillary Rodham Clinton – Talking It Over |publisher=[[Creators Syndicate]] |access-date=August 24, 2007}}</ref> It focused on her experiences and those of women, children and families she met during her travels around the world.<ref name="Whitehouse.gov"/> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page