Foreword by Hillary Rodham Clinton

Before there were pink-eared knit protest caps, before a record number of women raised their hands to run for office, there was Hillary Rodham Clinton. For 19 months, starting with Clinton's declaration of her candidacy for president, women and girls dared to believe that experience, hard work, and homework would trump gender - could trump gender - and put a woman in the White House, at last. This is the insider's study of those heady, hard days told through the lens of the photographer always at Clinton's side and the words of those who pulled with her. This is an intimate portrait of one of the most resilient and inspirational leaders in American history.