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WATCH: Lynn Sweet on Hillary Clinton’s memoir

By Sun-Times staff

With Hillary Clinton’s new memoir, “Hard Choices,” scheduled to be released in a few weeks, it’s another in a long line of political memoirs to hit the book shelves.

Why are they so popular? Lynn Sweet says it gives politicians a legal way to pay for a book tour, which essentially is like a political campaign.

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