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The Sum of All Tears
by Matthew Continetti
September 7, 2018

…What I want to tell you about Wendy [Sherman’s] story [Not for the Faint of Heart: Lessons in Courage, Power, and Persistence] is that it’s embarrassing, both self-pitying and self-congratulatory, and proves exactly the opposite lesson that it intends. The year is 2015. The scene is the Palais Coburg Hotel in Vienna. “I thought I’d be home in short order,” Sherman writes. “By day 25 I had barely left the hotel and eaten only 1 meal outside the Coburg.” The poor dear! Confined in this shack, this madhouse, this roach motel!…What’s striking is that Sherman considers her account an example of “the art of the deal.” If so, what is the lesson? To have a fit when negotiations reach an impasse? READ MORE