Big Girls Don’t Cry: The Election That Changed Everything for American Women by Rebecca Traister

Traister recaptures many of the unforgettable moments during the 2008 election when Hillary Clinton battled Barack Obama in the democratic primaries.

(Simon & Schuster, 352 pages, $26)

History was destined to be made in 2008, when the Democratic primary pitted the country’s first electable female presidential candidate against its first electable African-American one, said Kate Tuttle in The Boston Globe. But for many older feminists, the battle between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama played like a slow-motion tragedy. “The misogyny Clinton faced on the campaign trail was shocking”—as was the fact that so many younger women opted for Obama. Salon.com’s Rebecca Traister, in her “provocative” new campaign diary, recaptures many of the unforgettable moments that women experienced while watching it all unfold.

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