Hillary Clinton's friends say her new book will shock you

Hillary Clinton is, naturally, working on a new book, this one a collection of essays reflecting primarily on her loss in the 2016 election. The tome is scheduled to drop in September — it's currently listed on Amazon without final cover art as "Untitled Memoir" — and Clinton's friends are already hyping its "bombshell" revelations.

Clinton "really believes" Russian meddling and the email investigation of fired FBI Director James Comey are "why she lost, and she wants to explain why in no uncertain terms," an unnamed Clinton ally told The Hill. "She wants the whole story out there from her own perspective. I think a lot of people are going to be really surprised by how much she reveals."

This will not be the first time Clinton has publicly reflected on her loss. At a speech in May, she bounced back and forth between highlighting external factors and accepting blame herself. "Of course I take absolute personal responsibility. I was the candidate. I was the person on the ballot," Clinton said then, adding, "I was on the way to winning before a combination of [James] Comey's letter on Oct. 28 and Russian WikiLeaks raised doubts in the minds of people inclined to vote for me but got scared off."

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Other high-profile Democrats have increasingly targeted failures of messaging as their primary problem in 2016.