||1:To solve the mystery of what “Hard Choices” is for, think back to those Democratic surrogates being schooled on Benghazi talking-points.||2:This is a briefing book for surrogates, and—beyond them—for the legions of “influencers ” so prized by modern political campaigns: the amateur opinion-formers whose friends, colleagues and relatives listen to their political views, or follow them online.||3:Understood as a briefing book, the memoir’s oddities make more sense.||4:It exists to offer talking points to each possible element of a future Clinton coalition—from folk worried about climate change to women who voted for Mitt Romney, who could imagine voting for Hillary, but whose husbands are obsessed with Benghazi.||5:It never needed to be a good read.