In the paperback edition of Hillary’s Choice, Sheehy writes that she re-interviewed a dozen of Clinton's classmates, including former Wellesley president Ruth Adams.

Eleanor D. Acheson, one of Clinton's closest cohorts, said, "I never saw him in our whole four years at Wellesley.” Some people quoted in the book said Sheehy represented their words inaccurately or changed the meaning of their words by taking them out of context: Sheehy blamed some of the criticism of her book on the "Clinton attack machine".

Ben Smith, in his Politico blog, observed that some of Sheehy's scoops on Clinton had been picked up by other journalists and used in their work.

Smith wrote that "almost everything attempting to take a personal look at Hillary seems to go back to Sheehy ... [I]t may not be your sort of book but, for all its flaws, it does seem to be holding up."

Carl Bernstein, in his 2007 biography A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton, supposedly relied on some of Sheehy's reporting (on her interview with Clinton's mother and on some letters she sent to an old high school friend while in college).