A review by mrogows
It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us by Hillary Rodham Clinton
3.0
Overall I genuinely enjoyed this book.
As for drawbacks, there were a few points I don't agree with Hillary on. Although I do agree that the media is too flooded with violence and sex, I don't think there should be regulations against it. This is especially true with her stance on Video Games. We are indeed seeing the fallout of the violence our media has given us young kids growing up, but I believe a bigger onus is on the media at large, a topic Hillary did touch upon and I applaud her for doing so.
Other than that one area, the book was extremely well written, well researched, and well executed. It does suffer just a bit from the time it was published, and is dated. But reading it at the end of 2018 was a very strange combination of nostalgia from the 1990s, prophetic warnings (some good, some bad, and many seeing fruition), and a celebration of where we have come from and where we were going.
As I started 2018 with Hillary's last book, it only seemed fitting to end it with her first book. A great way to wrap up 2018 and begin 2019.
As for drawbacks, there were a few points I don't agree with Hillary on. Although I do agree that the media is too flooded with violence and sex, I don't think there should be regulations against it. This is especially true with her stance on Video Games. We are indeed seeing the fallout of the violence our media has given us young kids growing up, but I believe a bigger onus is on the media at large, a topic Hillary did touch upon and I applaud her for doing so.
Other than that one area, the book was extremely well written, well researched, and well executed. It does suffer just a bit from the time it was published, and is dated. But reading it at the end of 2018 was a very strange combination of nostalgia from the 1990s, prophetic warnings (some good, some bad, and many seeing fruition), and a celebration of where we have come from and where we were going.
As I started 2018 with Hillary's last book, it only seemed fitting to end it with her first book. A great way to wrap up 2018 and begin 2019.