more honest with his aide s than with voters ー and soldiers: "l've come tO the conclusion that there's no way tO win the war,: ” Nixon said. "But we can't say that, ofcourse. ln fact, we have tO seem tO say the opposite, just t0 keep some degree ofbargaining leverage. " The war would last another seven years. HAL KUSHNER, a medic WhO was held in captivity for five years by the Viet Cong, is among the film's memorably affecting figures. His voice catching, tears coming, Kushner describes his 1973 release: "There was an Air Force brigadier general ⅲ class A uniform. He looked magnificent. I looked at him, and he had breadth, he had thickness that we didn't have. He had on a garrison cap and his hair was plump and moist, and our hair was like straw. lt was dry, and we were skinny. And I went out and I saluted him, which was a courtesythat had been denied us for so many years. And he saluted me, and I shook hands with him, and he hugged me —he actually hugged me. And he said, 'Welcome home, MaJOr. We're glad tO see you, Doctor. ' The tears were streaming down his cheeks. ” ln the 61m Kushner tells this storywith Ray Charles' "America the Beautiful" playing softly in the background. To write about it risks making the presentation ofKushner's release seem hOkey, but it is not. Far from it. TO me, the Kushner sequence is perhaps the most powerful moment in the entire series, not least because 0fthe newly freed POW's sense ofdimension and Size. The magnificence ofthe offlcer who greeted him, the "breadth ” and "thickness ” and the ' plump ” and "moist" hair: it's as though the scraggly and sapped Kushner saw the general as the embodiment ofthe 01d America, the invincible America, the victorious America— an America that didn't really exist anymore, or at least not in Southeast Asia. One cold winter morning after Christmas 1984 ー I was 15 , the same age my son is now—my FRONTLINE father and I took a trip to Washington. Like a lot of SNAPSHOTS other veterans, he had been skeptical ofthe plans Jere Meacham, above 厄 0 れ砒 r for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, thinking the in Vietnam with unusual de sign in a gently sloping hill in the shadow Other members 0 工 of the monuments to Lincoln and Washington the U.S. Army's suggested a lack ofrespect. Seeing it changed his Fourth ⅲ以 mind. He said nothing as we walked along the wall Division. He sent ofthe dead. Coming to the years ofhis service, he the images tO his stopped, searching for a familiar name. He found SO 〃 1999 it, and it happened tO be within reach. He ran a finger over the letters, turned, stepped back, and we moved on. ln his letter t0 me with the photographs of Vietnam 15 years later, my father was relatively terse about his thoughts in-country. "I wanted; ” he wrote, "to get back to life. ” My father is dead now, but for the warriors still among us, Ken Burns has at last charted a path back toward life, and toward home. ロ limited but effective interviews and powerful still and moving imagery—The e 加 am Ⅳ may well have an even larger cultural impact than his land- mark Civil War project of 1990. (CoIin PoweIl, then Chairman 0fthe J0int Chiefs of Staff, gave Presi- dent George H. W. Bush videotapes ofthat docu- mentary t0 watch in the run-up t0 the GulfWar. ln his audiotaped diary, the President recounted how the moving accounts Ofthe travails Of ordinary sol- diers helped reinforce his determination to avoid a long land war ⅲ the Middle East. ) l've always thought about what it would have been like for vet- erans ofthe cataclysm 0f 1861 ー 65 to experience Burns' treatment oftheir war. With the new docu- mentary we don't have tO wonder, for the warriors of the Vietnam era, many now in their 70S , will be able tO relive those momentous, disorienting days. Vietnam and Watergate were decisive events in the erosion oftrust in government with which we still live, and both Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon admitted in private what they would not say in public. "The great trouble l'm under—a man can fight ifhe can see daylight down the road : somewhere,' J0hnson told Senator Richard Russell in a tape-recorded conversation in March 1965 , early ⅲ thejourney. "But there ain't no daylight in Vietnam. ” During the ' 68 campaign Nixon was 41

that could redirect traffc tO less congested routes. ln Florida, evacuations were wisely ordered. Three days before lrma hit, it was alre ady packing 180 Ⅱ 1. p. h. WindS and was 0 Ⅱ a direct course for Miami. AISO figuring intO the decision was the storm's murderous romp through the Caribbean, which woke a lot ofpeople up t0 its power. The effort to keep Florida's lights on—or at least get them back on when they failed—was another exercise in planning, one that benefited from a kindness-of-strangers collegiality that has developed among states and localities across the country as catastrophic storms have become more common. ln the week before lrma hit, Florida Power & Light, the state's biggest electricity provider, sent out an appealto Other states for "restoration forces"—utility trucks, tree trimmers, linemen and Other personnel from power companies. Ultimately, that appeal produced a force 0f nearly 20 , 000 people, many 0f Whom were on loan from utility companies as far away as California, Wisconsin and 28 Other states. AS they streamed southwe st, gas -tanker trucks were stationed along the interstates tO facilitate refueling. 第← "ltwas truly a military-grade operation," says R0b Gould, a vice president of Florida Power & Light, wh0 is, incidentally, a former member Of the Air Force. "You're moving people, you re moving equipment, and you have t0 have it all ready t0 deploy. ” Thatkindofall-hands generosityevenmore deeply informs the work ofthe neighborhood nonprofits and faith-based groups. ln Houston, where local offcials more with getting by as the city flooded, this was especially ⅲ evidence. ln the city 0fKaty, just outside Of Houston, Kristel Meadows, a stay-at-home mother the street 仕 om her had been slogging by in the same soggy, muddy clothes for days. SO she marched over f00d and basic supplies and share hazard warnings. tO the firehouse late one evening—bre aking curfew— G0ing forward, ofcourse, U. S. policyhas t0 be built and offered to bring their clothes to her house and on more than heroic first responders, courageous launder them. They accepted the 0ffer. communities and generous corporations scrambling The next day, she, her husband and others set up a tO meet storm after storm as climate change makes barbecue in a parking 10t ofthe Katy Elks L0dge and hurricanes more powerful and more deadly. There are encouraged friends t0 bring their grills and smokers. only SO many D-Day mobilizations a country has ⅲ it. Over the course offive days, they made 15 , 000 meals The answer instead must be a suite Of policies for first responders and neighbors whO were out that bOth fortify coasts and cities against storms and of food and water. "I can't rescue anybody; ” says discourage rebuilding in places that are tOO exposed Meadows. "But I can COOk a meal, I can dO laundry. tO protect. AISO important is knowing when tO quit. During Harvey and lrma, consumers and locals Piet Dircke, a program director for water management benefited even more directly from public-spirited at the global consultancy firmArcadis, often offers his companies. Home Depot makes it a practice offreez- clients the simple wisdom, "Give room tO the river. ing its prices where a state ofemergency is declared. ln other words, don't build your home ⅲ places As lrma closed in on Florida, JetBlue 0ffered flat $ 99 you're likely to drown. For homeowners, the federal fares for anyone trying t0 leave the state before the government has become the principal issuer offlood airports were shut down. The National Business insurance after private insurers largely abandoned Emergency Operations center, an increasingly ef- the market. The National F100d lnsurance Program, fective consortium Of big companies and business however, makes little distinction between good risks associations, works tO coordinate the shipment Of 28 TIME September 25 , 2017 What must 也 Making changes now will prepare us fO 「 the future: Strengthen 0 題 r infrastructure National infrastructu including power lines, dams, seawalls and levees need repairs and upgrades in order to withstand strong storms. Address c 取ー a change Warmer water and atmospheric temperatures are fueling extreme weather conditions. CIimate-friendIy policies can counter this trend.

こ物みの曇 」に洋を、第第を = A HURRICANE IS A MONSTER WITH TWO ORDERS Of magnitude. lt is a weapon Of mass destruction— an atmospheric daisy cutter that descends on a re- gion and claws away whOle cities at a time. And it's a precision-targeted weapon tOO—a disturbance that begins in the sky, travels across an ocean and, when it arrives, picks Offits victims one at a time: the child swept under by the onrushing flood, the first re- sponder WhO saves a life and perishes in the process. Hurricane lrma inflicted both kinds ofhorror. ln the Caribbean, the storm carpet-bombed islands that have few if any defenses. lt damaged or destroyed more than 90% Of the structures on b0th Barbuda and St. Martin. lt wrecked more than 130 schools acros s multiple islands including Anguilla, the Virgin lslands and Turks and Caicos, affecting 2.4 million children. lt shuttered hospitals, made food scarce, demolished infrastructure. More intimately, there were the individuallosses of individual souls. At least eight people from a Broward County nursing home died after the facility was le 代 without p ower for days after lrma. Three people in a single home died 0f carbon-monoxide poisoning from a generator they were using when the power failed. Another Florida man was killed when high winds blew him offhis ladder as he tried to put TO - OW 取 storm protection over windows. coor 臧 i 取 a せ 0 取 ln all, lrma has so far claimed at least 30 Some 64 , 000 people in the U. S. and at least 44 people across the federal personnel Caribbean, though the number will surely go up as have been the floodwaters recede. And yet the undeniable fact dispatched to affected is that things could have been worse—much worse. ofluck, as the storm veered slightly west, confining areas, FEMA is lrma was the most powerful hurricane recorded its most direct hit tO the state's Gulf Coast, though coordinating with in the open Atlantic in the satellite era: it spent a flooding parts of the Atlantic Coast all the same. c stakeholders, record three consecutive days as a Category 5 storm Still, 12 years after Americans watched ⅲ shock and unaffected and maintained wind speeds 0f at least 185 m. p. h. as Hurricane Katrina swallowed New 0 rleans and states are chipping in support. ( 298 km/h) for a record 37 hours. lt made landfall in killed some 1 , 800 people, the system held. lndeed, the mainland U. S. in a state that is home to more than it held twice. lrma took its bead on Florida ⅲ the 20 million people with more than $ 1.5 trillion worth immediate aftermath ofHurricane Harvey's assault ofvulnerable property 0 Ⅱ its two southern coasts. on Houston—even as the nation prepared to confront The Sunshine State didn't break; its cities didn't hurricanes Jose and Katia, churning in waters not tumble. Yes, roughly 12 million Floridians lost power; far away. yes, up tO 7 million were evacuated or dislocated; "We mobilized over 30 , 000 federal government yes, up tO 600 shelters had tO open across the state. forces down tO Harvey, says Brock Long, director But the shelters did open—fast; the people ⅲ harm's of the FederaI Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). "And 34 , 000 were deployed to lrma. " way did evacuate; and the first responders were there when they needed to be there. Florida did have a bit That's no accident. Senior White House offcials 24 TIME September 25 , 2017 What we 臧ー臧 ⅵ ht The 「 oots of an effective emergency- response e 幵 0 ・ ニ壟こ働

credit the smooth operation tO veteran emergency Agency (EPA), which deployed to the affected cities managers whO witnessed the failures Ofthe response to establish pop-up hospitals with hundreds ofbeds Big 一れ e Key, tO Katrina as well as Hurric ane Rita and Superstorm each and tO test the floodwater for contaminants. The 0. Sandy. "You can't buy that kind ofexperience,: ” says Department 0f Defense mobilized quickly and agilely FEMA search- Tom Bossert, President Trump's homeland security t00. Nearly 21 , 000 military personnel deployed t0 and-rescue and counterterrorism adviser. the lrma-affected region. They coordinated with teams at work in 0 neighborhood The teamwork has been bipartisan. Before the the states, which coordinated with the counties and ⅲ BigPine Key. Obama Administration le 仕 town in January, it briefed cities, which coordinated with police departments, The Keys were the incoming White House on all manner ofpossible fire departments, schOOls and businesses. hit especially emergencies, especially hurricanes, WhiCh were la- President Trump's infamous impatience was alSO hard beled "high-impact, high-likelihood ” events. "lt was in some ways a boon, especially When it came tO a real education for us,: ” said one participant. deploying soldiers and sailors. "The President's point The lessons were evidently well-learned. At the ofview on all this has been, Why wait? Deploy your federal level, not only did FEMA rise to the new resources; says Bossert. Days before lrma reached challenges, but so did the Department ofHealth and the U. S. Virgin lslands, Trump ordered his team to Human Services and the Environmental Protection prepare the military. PREVIOUS PAGES: SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL/AP; THESE PAGES: SAM HODGSON—THE NEW YORK TIMES/REDUX; ILLUSTRATIONS BY BROWN BIRD DESIGN FOR TIME 25

Nation 叩 e ′ e 0 lOt 0 need 0 t there. Rob SoIomon, GoFundMe CEO St ′ 0 れ ge ′ s す H E K ー N 0 N E S S 0 ド B Y M E ー S S A C H A N AS HURRICANE HARVEY'S FLOODWATERS POURED intO his family's Houston home on Aug. 28 , lsiah Courtney slung sacks 0f clothing over his shoulder, lifted his 85- lb. pit bull in his arms and led his wife and two young children t0 safety. Two days later, the 28-year-01d father reversed that trek, returning home for the first time since the storm slammed through Texas, causing an es- timated $ 150 billion ⅲ damage and leaving more than 70 people dead. Courtney and his wife found their three-bedroom house in shambles. Their l-year-old daughter's crib was soaked, mold cov- ered the cabinets, and nearly every appliance they owned was destroyed. Courtney, WhO works as a coordinator at an Oil company, had no flOOd insurance and nowhere near enough savings tO pay for repairs. At a moment when all of Houston was hurting, friends and relatives could contribute only SO much. SO Courtney decided tO seek support from strangers. He started a GOFundMe page asking for $ 40 , 000 t0 repair his home and replace lost appliances and furniture. "Anything will help; ” he wrote, below a news photo that showed his family wading through floodwaters. More than 900 people were moved tO contribute over $ 32 , 000. "I needed to get the help in order to get every- thing back t0 normab ” Courtney t01d TIME. "The GoFundMe account really helped. I don't even know how to describe what I would have had to do [with- out it]. lt's really a blessing. Courtney is Just one Of thousands Of Americans who have turned to sites like GoFundMe and YouCaring in recent weeks in the hopes that sharing details of personal plights will stir strangers to help. ln the first five days after Hurricane Harvey struck, more than 850 campaigns on GOFundMe brought ⅲ more than $ 4.5 million for causes ranging from diapers for evacuated families t0 f00d for rescued pets. A 3-year-01d girl wh0 was found clinging t0 her mother's lifeless body ⅲ Houston's f100ds received more than $ 175 , 000 for her education, while a Texas family struggling to bury s ⅸ relative s whO drowned in the storm drew over $ 47 , 000. YouCaring hosted more than 6 , 000 campaigns that raised about $ 44 million, led by NFL player JJ Watt ofthe Houston Texans, who posted a plea to 'come together and collectively help rebuild ” after Harvey. Watt raised a record $ 32 million from more than 200 , 000 donors. "lt's the largest crowdfunding campaign of all time,' says YouCaring CEO Dan Saper, wh0 j0ined the organization in 2014 after leavmg the investment industry. "We had never seen such an outpouring 0f support. ” Crowdfunding—the practice 0f raising small amounts Of money from a large number Of donors online—was once the province Of startups and PO- litical camp aigns. But over the p ast five years, it has ballooned into a multibillion-dollar charity industry, with donations going not tO gadgets or causes but tO individual people. As Americ ans watch the devasta- tion ofHarvey and lrma unfold in real time, they can now give directly tO those whO are suffering. Since GoFundMe launched in 2010 , more than 40 million individual donors have raised over $ 4 billion, with education the fastest- growing request category. YouCaring has raised over $ 800 million since 2011 , largely for medical causes. According tO a 2016 Pew Research Center survey, 22 % Of Americans have donated tO such crowdfunding appeals. This growth is fueled by the generosity of ordi- nary people j0ined t0 the intimate immediacy 0fS0- cial media—but it's also driven by structural gaps that have le 仕 t00 many Americans one piece Of bad luck away from financial hardship. More than 40 % 0f Americans are not prepared to handle a sudden expense 0f $ 400 or more, be it replacing a broken car engine, visiting an emergency room without in- surance or repairing a flooded home, according tO a recent report by the Federal Reserve. "People need help; ” says GoFundMe CEO Rob Solomon, whO le 仕 his jOb as a partner in a venture- 30 TIME September 25 , 2017

DATA WHERE AMER ℃ ANS GET THEIR #NEWS Two-thirds ( 67 % ) Of Americans get atleast some oftheir news on SOCial media, accordingto a n ew Pew S u rvey, risingto 78 % Of those under the age Of 50. Here, the percentages ofU. S. adults whO say they get their news from each major social-media platform: 0 MEXICO MOURNS A wake is held in 」 uchitän de Zaragoza, Mexico, on Sept. 9 f0「」 uan 」 iménez, a municipal police officer killed in a building collapse during an 8. l-magnitude earthquake tWO days earlier,. The death tO 旧 n Mexico's strongest quake in a century had risen tO 96 by Sept. 11. Residents Ofthe badly hit state ofOaxaca are nowworkingto rebuild their homes and lives. Photograph by Brett Gundlock—・ The New 洳「 k Times/Redux SPILLOVER THREAT MaJOr powers in the region The referendum vote that also oppose the referendum. Neighboring states like Turkey and lran worry that the vote could could fracture lraq galvanize Kurdish separatists within their own borders. A yes vote might provide a model for IRAQ'S NORTHERN KURDISH REGION IS SET TO Other Kurds seeking autonomy across the region— hold a vote on independence on Sept. 25 , giving such as in Syria, where U. S. -backed Kurdish hope t0 nearly 30 million Kurds in lraq, lran, Syria militias already enjoy de facto control over much and Turkey WhO aspire tO self-determination. of the country. But the central government opposes the referendum, putting it on a collision TROUBLE BREWING The U. S. is also course With an ever more powerful against holding the independence separatist movement: VOte. 0価 . CialS are concerned the referendum will tear apart DRAWING LINES The vote key allies in the coalition repre sents a challenge fighting ISIS, just as the to Baghdad by lraqi militant group is on the brink Kurdistan's regional Of defeat as a conventional governme nt ove r control Of army. The Kurdish public is areas claimed by both sides. widely expected t0 vote for At the center 0f the dispute independence, but there is no is Kirkuk, home to a million chance Baghdad will recognize Arabs, Kurds and Turkomans, the outcome, potentially and the heart of lraq's oil wealth. p ropelling lraq toward another Kurdish authorities tOOk control round Of civil strife. ofthe city after lraqi troops fled advancing ISIS forces in 2014. —JARED MALSIN WORLD WHERE THE KURDS LIVE RUSSIA : 、 BIack Sea TU R KEY ` Caspian Med 、 : ; ・ Sea AN SYRIA Snapchat IRAQ SAUDi ARABtA 7

0 - 第当を : を第 capital firm t0 take over the company ⅲ 2015. people fee tO donors. YouCaring, in contrast, charges only lsiah Courtney want tO be empowered tO help each other out. There's the credit-card fee and is supported by donations. stands in thefront a lOt Of need out there. ” Neither company releases financial information, but yard 可ん s Houst0 れ the $ 4.5 million that GOFundMe raised in the first home with his days after Harvey would mean $ 225 , 000 ⅲ fees for ONLINE CROWDFUNDING BEGAN as a way tO serve wife, Danielle, much less personal causes. lndiegogo and Kickstarter, the company. SO 〃 Bryson, which launched ⅲ 2008 and 2009 , respectively, While no one disputes that this new fundraising daughterAubree allowed entrepreneurs and small businesses to get model has helped hundreds ofthousands ofpeople, 0 れ d dog Bruce funding for inventions and projects like the coolest it's not without its challenges. The most successful C001er—a high-tech drink container with a built-in crowdfunding campaigns convey a dramatic story blender, waterproof BIuetooth speaker and USB of heartbreak or hope, complete with photos and charger—and a movie rebOOt Ofthe beloved Veronica personal details. But many people in need don't have Mars television series. a story that fits neatly intO a compelling narrative, Sites like GoFundMe and YouCaring saw a chance or the digital savvy or time to package it that way. t0 tap this impulse and built user-friendly inter- And then there's the randomness ofwhat the lnternet faces that seemed more like social networks than elevates and discards. For every case like Courtney's, traditional charity websites, with trending topics which raised tens of thousands of dollars, there are and C010r ん 1 video s. GoFundMe 's founde rs , Brad dozens Of campaigns that never catch on, leaving Damphousse and Andrew BaIIester, had previously people struggling ・ founded Paygr, a site on which neighbors could buy Crowdfunding is still dwarfed by traditional and sell items or services, and their new company ex- charities, which bring ⅲ hundreds of billions of tended the support of neighbors t0 a much broader dollars each year in the U. S. But mainstays like the community. One Of GoFundMe's early successes American Red Cross and Salvation Army are taking came after the BOSton Marathon bombing in 2013 , note Of the medium's appeal tO a younger genera- 箋 when more than 34 , 000 donors raised over $ 2 mil- tion Of donors, especially those whO are concerned lion for those who were seriously injured. about the higher overhead costs of established GOFundMe's founders also saw a business op- charities. As direct-mail and telethon contribu- portunity. The site takes 5 % 0fwhat every campaign tors age, and with some younger donors prefer- raises and alSO passes along a credit-card processing ring tO give directly tO those in need, century-old

Courtney carries his dog through fioodwaters ⅲ this れ ews photograph 市砒 sparked an outpouring 可 support ' e 響 were bas 0 S ー 0 ′ t 題 0 0 れ 徊′ their Jeremiah Richard, Hurricane Harvey victim nonprofits are seeing an opportunity tO draw new digital funding streams from crowdfunding sites. "We wouldn't have been here this long if we didn't continue tO adapt and evolve; ” says Jennifer Elwood, vice president Of consumer marketing and fundraising at the Red Cross, which has worked with CrowdRise, a site acquired by GoFundMe last year. CrowdRise's supporters are 0 Ⅱ average 45 to 55 years 01d , while the donors who respond to the Red Cross's direct-mail campaigns are 70 tO 80 years Old. "Part ofour DNA is meeting people where they're at and making sure we're relevant; ” Elwood says. After Hurricane Harvey, the Red Cross raised more than $ 211 million, including nearly $ 6 million through its CrowdRise p artnership. The SaIvation Army, which collected at least $ 20 million for Harvey relief, is also taking a closer look at crowdfunding. When flooding hit Louisiana last summer, damaging thousands Of homes and businesses, donors gave $ 4 million tO the Salvation Army's reliefefforts, which the organization said was not enough tO meet the needs on the ground. ln con- trast, GoFundMe users raised over $ 11 million for more than 6 , 000 campaigns related t0 the f100d. The disparity was enough t0 prompt the Salvation Army tO consider using crowdfunding campaigns in the ん - ture, according tO Ron Busroe, the group's national secretary for community relations and development, but SO far the organization has not done so. Charitable donations in the U. S. have steadily increased since 2010 , reaching a record high Of $ 390 billion in 2016 , a figure that includes dona- tions given tO traditional charities and some crowd- funding campaigns, according t0 the Giving USA Foundation. That's a dramatic increase from the roughly $ 134 billion raised ⅲ 1976 , a number ad- justed for inflation, as well as the $ 307 billion raised in 2009. "There is a very significant role that crowdfund- ing is playing, says Una Osili, associate dean for research and international programs at the lndi- ana University Lilly Family School ofPhilanthropy, which works with Giving USA to track charita- ble giving. "lt's increasing the overall amount, but it's also broadening whO is participating. lt has the potential tO draw new donors and make giving more inclusive. STILL, CROWDFUNDING COMES with risks that aren't present when giving t0 an established nonprofit. Jeremiah Richard, a 31-year-01d Houston father of two, created a GOFundMe page after his family lost everything they owned ⅲ Harvey's floods and had to be airlifted out Oftheir apartment complex—a rescue captured by a local television news station. Speaking tO a reporter, Richard counted his blessings in an interview that was widely shared. Soon afterward, he was alarmed t0 see other pages popping up on the crowdfunding site, created by people he'd never met, purporting t0 collect money for him. "lt said I was the organizer. They were basically using our situation for their gain,' Richard says. The tWO accounts he spotted have since been removed from the site. GoFundMe says it verifies the identity 0f all campaign organizers and employs a team to monitor the platform for fraud. Campaigns involv- ing a misuse offunds make up less than one-tenth Of 1 % ofall funding requests on the site, and when they d0 happen, the money is returned in んⅡ to every donor, the company says. Crowdfunding also raises thorny tax questions. Unlike donations to traditional charities, donations to individuals are not tax-deductible. And while the IRS says those whO receive money from crowd- funding can claim it as an untaxed gift, a handful of crowdfunders report receiving tax bills anyway. Money raised from crowdfunding can also affect a family 's eligibility for public assistance. For lsiah Courtney, the benefits of crowd- funding far outweighed any potential risks. The $ 32 , 000- plus that he has received will go toward ま repairing hiS house, including removing ruined Sheetrock and replacing furniture and carpeting. ln the dffcult days following the storm, he has been heartened by the support he's received from people he's never met, many ofwhom praised him for car- rying his family's pit bull through waist-deep water to ・ dry land. "You are an AMAZING person,' one donor wrote on his page. Just when my faith ⅲ humanity had bottomed out after seeing tons ofpets stranded and tie d tO tree s, your picture surfaced this morn- ing and gave me new hope. ” ロ 32 TIME September 25 , 2017

Essay The Pursuit Of Happy-ish HiIIary C linton write s th e first draft of her history By Susanna Schrobsdorff HILLARY CLINTON HAS SPENT 40 YEARS TRYING TO BE liked. ln her new memoir, What Happened, she describes the myriad ways she has tried to modulate herselfto fit our expectations 0f her, which is a tidy but long list of a11 the usual impossible standards women face. She changed her name, her clothing and her demeanor in response tO criticism and rejection. She spent what adds up tO a month Oftime on the 2016 campaign trail having her hair and makeup done; if she showed up without having those things done, she got slammed. She even hired a linguistics expert so she could le arn tO rev up a crowd by shouting while not sounding tOO high-pitched. (That, she concludes in the book, turned out t0 be impossible. ) Some people might view these studied alterations as signs Of inauthenticity. But judging from What 丑 0 〃 e れ ed , the most candid ofher three memoirs, it seems t0 be the price she paid t0 be "likable ” t0 a country that was not, in the end, ready for Hillary. Unfortunately, likability is tOO Often a woman's most valuable currency, trumping competence and worthiness. A hint Of unlikability can undermine a woman's success like nothing else. Studies show that the higher you aim, the harder it is to be seen as likable ifyou're a woman. And what's higher than the presidency? Sure, this woman is admired and even loved by millions. But the forces on the other side ofthat equation proved stronger and louder. For many, just the sight ofher sparks a kind of rage that can't be explained in the usual political terms. And yet time after time, Clinton stepped up t0 face rejection and unimaginably cruel comments about her b0dy and soul. ln What をを e れ ed , she describes the decision tO run for President again as like going back in front of a firing squad. People often ask her why she wanted to go through all that. She writes that nobody questions a man's desire tO win, SO why question hers? Men also don't get the utterly personal hatred that a woman does when she dares tO aim tOO high. I'M STARTING TO THINK that Clinton iS like an avatar in a video game in which the goal is t0 slay sexism. She has explored the extreme boundaries oflikability and female ambition, living out some Of our best hopes and worst fears, in one year. Take her attendance at Donald Trump's lnauguration. She had tO stand with the previous president, whom she feels she let down profoundly by losing, while facing thousands 0f people wh0 despised her on a scarily personal level for daring t0 run in the first place. As she writes, the crowd could have started tO chant "lock her up as they did at almost every Trump rally. And it was entirely 0 0 Clinton's white pantsuit became c ⅱ 0 れ ca 〃 0m0 g women possible that the new President would egg them on as he had before. I WOULDN'T HAVE RISKED that kind ofpublic rejec- tion for anything except my kids. But l'm not Clinton. I don't know ifwatching her resilience makes it harder for a woman tO imagine running for President or easler now that she's publicizing the realities Ofour sexism. Then there's the guilt. Clinton is clearly devastated to have let down the girls at her rallies, her campaign staff, the very 01d ladies who were born before women's suffrage and finally got t0 vote for a woman, and even her now gone parents. She writes about hOW she'd test her father's unconditionallove as a kid by asking him ifhe'd love her even ifshe did something bad or failed. He always said he'd love her no matter what, but in the dark days after the election she imagines asking him, "Well, Dad, what ifl lose an election I should have won and let an unqualified bully become President ofthe United States? Would you still love me then? ” lt is a Greek tragedy, and an utterlyAmerican one, that the first female presidential candidate nominated by a maJOr party came SO close tO an empirical win but in the end lost entirely. And what a personal reckoning. "I have come t0 terms with the fact that a 10t ofpeople— millions and millions ofpeople—decided theyjust didn't like me; ” she writes. Yet the b00k itselfis proof she's still willing to confront the firing squad. Maybe this time they'll put down their weapons and listen. Clinton writes that she plans tO stay alive tO see the first woman become President. When I read that, I envisioned her at age 80 , back on that lnaugural podium ⅲ a white pantsuit. But I don't imagine she'll be worried about hateful chants. This time, maybe all those women and girls from all those marches will be back to cheer on the first female president as well as the first woman WhO almost was. ロ 51