But on the corner of Bennett and Eliot Streets opposite the hotel, two young men were fomenting fresh conflict. Resting a United States flag over a shoulder, they were surrounded by a series of handwritten anti-Clinton posters.
“Do you know where Bill is?” one read.
“Liar, liar, pantsuit on fire,” another chided.
One of the two protestors, Boston resident Eric Cambell, argued with a series of women leaving the signing, memoir in hand.
“I just don’t like the woman,” he said as countless copies of the senator’s face passed him on the sidewalk, toted by hundreds of smiling fans.
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—Staff writer Nathan J. Heller can be reached at heller@fas.harvard.edu.