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AT THE Manhattan Barnes & Noble where Hillary Clinton was dispensing copies of It Takes a Village—And Other Lessons Children Teach Us, there was some Gotham grumbling about the fact that you had to buy a book even to be admitted to the floor where the First Lady was. (“You mean we have to pay to see her?” asked an older woman in a lace collar and a pearl necklace.) The fact that the books had been “signed” with an automatic pen was also not popular.

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Richard Brookhiser

Historian Richard Brookhiser is a senior editor of National Review and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute.

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Barnes & Noble

AT THE Manhattan Barnes & Noble where Hillary Clinton was dispensing copies of It Takes a Village—And Other Lessons Children Teach Us, there was some Gotham grumbling about the fact that you had to buy a book even to be admitted to the floor where the First Lady was. (“You mean we have to pay to see her?” asked an older woman in a lace collar and a pearl necklace.) The fact that the books had been “signed” with an automatic pen was also not popular.