Hillary Clinton’s Memoir Writing Styles Linked to Her Public Perception Problems

Rhetorical Analysis Also Reveals Challenges She Faces Just Because She's Female. Hillary Clinton made a campaign stop at Carnegie Mellon last spring. Political memoirs rarely reveal anything new or noteworthy. However, Carnegie Mellon University's David Kaufer and the University of Maryland's Shawn J. Parry-Giles ' analysis of Hillary Clinton's two political memoirs, "Living History” and "Hard Choices,” discovered links to the U.S democratic presidential candidate's public perception problems. Published in the National Communication Association's Quarterly Journal of Speech , the study identifies two contrasting writing styles with one underlying theme: Clinton's guardedness. Kaufer and Parry-Giles uncovered that both memoirs were written with a future presidential run in mind. They found that the writing styles of the memoirs reveal specific challenges for female political candidates.