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Who Is Newsweek's 'Most Powerful Woman in American History'?

Who Is Newsweek's 'Most Powerful Woman in American History'?

If you thought Newsweek’s transition from print to all digital meant that they would stop producing provocative covers, you thought wrong.

Here’s this week’s:

From the article:

And now, as of this week, Hillary Rodham Clinton becomes something she has not been in two decades: a private citizen. A mind-boggling thought, really, rich in amusingly prosaic implications. Will she drive a car? Is she going to pop up at the Safeway (you’re supposed to bring your own bags now, Madame Secretary!) or be found standing in line at the Friendship Heights multiplex? She’ll still have Secret Service protection, and she has more than enough money to send other people out on a CVS run. But even so, she is now, for the first time in a very, very long time, just one of us.

The images amuse because, of course, she’s not just one of us. She’s been the most famous and admired woman in America for 20 years. A December Gallup poll had her as the most admired woman in the world, and No. 2 on the list (Michelle Obama) wasn’t remotely close. Not everyone is in on this love-fest, as we well know, by a long shot. But even the seething hatred has, over the years, embroidered her legend -- debates about Clinton have somehow always ended up really being about us as a nation, who we are and who we want to be, in such a way that even those who dislike her are implicitly acknowledging that, yes, she is the touchstone.

Fun fact (via BuzzFeed’s Andrew Kaczynski): Hilary's departure from the State Department marks the first time in nearly 30 years that a Clinton has not held public office.

You can read Newsweeks’s full article here.

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Featured image courtesy Newsweek.

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