This is a book aimed at positioning her, at sorting out some niggles that could return to haunt her if she was to run; and at presenting her as statesmanlike, White House material in her own right and not as an aide to Obama or a dutiful First Lady to her husband.
After more than a year of establishing her own political identity in New York, with only five months to go in the Clinton presidency, she was once again doing her dutiful first lady act, performing a downbeat opening routine for her highly oratorical husband.
Indeed, explanations for the existence of such an obedient and dutiful Fourth Estate in the US have been offered for decades.
The Silver Bear for Best First Film went to a Tunisian, Mohamed Ben Attia, whose film Heditells the story of a diffident but dutiful second son, who runs away from a proscribed future into the complicated present.
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, first and best-known book of a four-volume autobiography by Simone de Beauvoir, published in French as Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée in 1958.
Tuna tartare with mustard-sesame vinaigrette seemed merely dutiful at first bite, but then little threads of marinated red cabbage, woven throughout, began speaking up.
The polling firm Public Policy Polling dutifully tracks second-place preferences among the voters it surveys.
Andrew Michael Italian Kitchen, which opened in 2008, is the dutiful and responsible first born.
McDougal: First, dutiful applause rippled through the ballroom followed by dead silence as Norman stepped aside and his blond, blue-eyed hunk of a son bent into the microphone.
Watch below as Rosie brings dutifully feeds the first newborn his or her first meal.
