Hillary And Chelsea Clinton On Trump Impeachment, Emails And 'Gutsy Women' Of History

Here & Now‘s Tonya Mosley speaks with Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton. The pair have just published “The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience.”

Book Excerpt: “The Book of Gutsy Women”

By Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton

Introduction

When CNN published the eye-catching headline “Rare blue pigment found in medieval woman’s teeth rewrites history,” we both read the article, then immediately sent it to each other. It explained that researchers examining burial remains at a women’s monastery in Germany had come across the skeleton of a woman who had died as early as 997 AD. As they looked at the skeleton, they noticed something strange: There were flecks of blue in her teeth. Those blue flecks turned out to be a rare, expensive pigment made from crushed lapis lazuli stones, once as expensive as gold. Only the most talented artists were permitted to use it. So how—in a time when artists were presumed to be men—did it find its way into this