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HTML:Bill Clinton, forty-second president of the United States, is the quintessential baby boomer: on the one hand blessed with a near-genius IQ, on the other, beset by character flaws that made his presidency a veritable soap opera of high ideals, distressing incompetence, model financial stewardship, and domestic misbehavior. In an era of cultural civil war, the Clinton administration fed the public an almost daily diet of scandal and misfortune. Who is Bill Clinton, though, and how did this baby-boom saga begin? Clinton's upbringing in Arkansas and his student years at Georgetown, Oxford, and Yale universities help us to see his life not only as a personal story but as the story of modern America. Behind the closed doors of the house on the hill above Park Avenue in Hot Springs, the struggle between Clinton's stepfather and mother became ultimately unbearable, causing Virginia to move out and divorce Roger Clinton. Dreading confrontation, Bill Clinton excelled in almost every field save athletics. But the fabled success of the scholarship boy would be marred by the decisions he came to make regarding Vietnam and military serviceâ??choices that haunt him to this day. We watch with a mixture of alarm, fascination, and awe as Bill Clinton does so much that is rightâ??and so much that is wrong. He sets his cap for the star student at Yale, young Hillary Rodham, seducing her with his dreams of a better America and an aw-shucks grin. Wherever he goes, he charms and disarmsâ??young and old, men and women...and more women. He becomes a law professor straight out of college; he contests a congressional election in his twentiesâ??and almost wins it. He becomes attorney general of his state and within two years is set to become the youngest-ever governor of Arkansas, at only thirty-two. Yet, always, there is a curse, a drive toward personal self-destructionâ??and with that the destruction of all those who are helping him on his legendary path. His affair with Gennifer Flowers strains his marriage and later nearly scuttles his bid for the presidency. He is thrown out of the governor's office after only one term and suffers a life-shaking crisis of confidence. Though with the stalwart help of a female chief of staff he regains his crown, it is clear that Bill Clinton's charismatic career is a ceaseless tightrope walk above the forces that threaten to pull him downâ??the most potent of them residing in his own being. Imbued with sympathy, deep intelligence, and the storyteller's art, this extraordinary biography helps us, at last, to understand the real Bill Clinton as he stumbles and withdraws from the 1988 presidential nomination race but enters it four years later, to make one of the most astonishing bids for the presidency in the twentieth century: the climax of this gripping political, social, and scandalous journey. From the Hardc… (lisätietoja)
OK, to start, I am only at the half way point of this substantial biography of Bill Clinton (there is still part two - 'Mastering the Presidency' to go so, anything that I say might be blown out of the water in another seven hundred pages time.
Two hundred pages in to this work, I was wondering how to give this seven, never mind six stars: the portrait of the young Clinton is riveting and something of which I had no idea. I was totally hooked.
The old Bill got the less the book impacted. One would have to have been living upon a different planet not to know about his womanising problems. I accept that this is an important part of the man's make up but, where I was disappointed, was that it seemed to become the only part that Mr. Hamilton wished to discuss. The fact that there is more to Clinton than this, is self evident to an English supporter of the Labour Party. It is widely acknowledged that Clinton was a mentor to Tony Blair and the whole concept of New Labour and yet, Hamilton implies that Clinton was after power with almost no thought of policies. Indeed, were I not to know which party Clinton represented, there is little in this book that would have enabled me to decide. Clinton's work for black and under represented groups is mentioned only as asides to the sexual misdemeanour's.
The main fault with this biography is the antithesis of that of most biographies: you know the sort of thing, a paragraph on early life, two on life outside the arena in which the subject is famed and page after page about the bit of his, or her life that one already knew. The book is saved by the authoritative and well researched nature of the pronouncements. ( )
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
For Emily and David Stavis-Polstein, and their sons, Gus and Harry - with love and gratitude.
Ensimmäiset sanat
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
Few Americans presidents have had so little idea of their family's past as William Jefferson Clinton.
Sitaatit
Viimeiset sanat
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"This is the toughest son of a bitch I've ever seen in my life", James Carville had remarked after the Gennifer Flowers scandal - a born "policy wonk," a political dynamo, a forty-second President of the United States of America, and a cat with nine lives - who, to survive on the next stage of his life's journey, would need all nine.
Biography & Autobiography.
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HTML:Bill Clinton, forty-second president of the United States, is the quintessential baby boomer: on the one hand blessed with a near-genius IQ, on the other, beset by character flaws that made his presidency a veritable soap opera of high ideals, distressing incompetence, model financial stewardship, and domestic misbehavior. In an era of cultural civil war, the Clinton administration fed the public an almost daily diet of scandal and misfortune. Who is Bill Clinton, though, and how did this baby-boom saga begin? Clinton's upbringing in Arkansas and his student years at Georgetown, Oxford, and Yale universities help us to see his life not only as a personal story but as the story of modern America. Behind the closed doors of the house on the hill above Park Avenue in Hot Springs, the struggle between Clinton's stepfather and mother became ultimately unbearable, causing Virginia to move out and divorce Roger Clinton. Dreading confrontation, Bill Clinton excelled in almost every field save athletics. But the fabled success of the scholarship boy would be marred by the decisions he came to make regarding Vietnam and military serviceâ??choices that haunt him to this day. We watch with a mixture of alarm, fascination, and awe as Bill Clinton does so much that is rightâ??and so much that is wrong. He sets his cap for the star student at Yale, young Hillary Rodham, seducing her with his dreams of a better America and an aw-shucks grin. Wherever he goes, he charms and disarmsâ??young and old, men and women...and more women. He becomes a law professor straight out of college; he contests a congressional election in his twentiesâ??and almost wins it. He becomes attorney general of his state and within two years is set to become the youngest-ever governor of Arkansas, at only thirty-two. Yet, always, there is a curse, a drive toward personal self-destructionâ??and with that the destruction of all those who are helping him on his legendary path. His affair with Gennifer Flowers strains his marriage and later nearly scuttles his bid for the presidency. He is thrown out of the governor's office after only one term and suffers a life-shaking crisis of confidence. Though with the stalwart help of a female chief of staff he regains his crown, it is clear that Bill Clinton's charismatic career is a ceaseless tightrope walk above the forces that threaten to pull him downâ??the most potent of them residing in his own being. Imbued with sympathy, deep intelligence, and the storyteller's art, this extraordinary biography helps us, at last, to understand the real Bill Clinton as he stumbles and withdraws from the 1988 presidential nomination race but enters it four years later, to make one of the most astonishing bids for the presidency in the twentieth century: the climax of this gripping political, social, and scandalous journey. From the Hardc
Two hundred pages in to this work, I was wondering how to give this seven, never mind six stars: the portrait of the young Clinton is riveting and something of which I had no idea. I was totally hooked.
The old Bill got the less the book impacted. One would have to have been living upon a different planet not to know about his womanising problems. I accept that this is an important part of the man's make up but, where I was disappointed, was that it seemed to become the only part that Mr. Hamilton wished to discuss. The fact that there is more to Clinton than this, is self evident to an English supporter of the Labour Party. It is widely acknowledged that Clinton was a mentor to Tony Blair and the whole concept of New Labour and yet, Hamilton implies that Clinton was after power with almost no thought of policies. Indeed, were I not to know which party Clinton represented, there is little in this book that would have enabled me to decide. Clinton's work for black and under represented groups is mentioned only as asides to the sexual misdemeanour's.
The main fault with this biography is the antithesis of that of most biographies: you know the sort of thing, a paragraph on early life, two on life outside the arena in which the subject is famed and page after page about the bit of his, or her life that one already knew. The book is saved by the authoritative and well researched nature of the pronouncements. ( )