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Scribner
April 2004
On Sale: April 1, 2004
592 pages ISBN: 0743222253 EAN: 9780743222259 Paperback
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Non-Fiction Biography
Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions
of people around the world. Yet few beyond her close friends
and family have ever heard her account of her extraordinary
journey. She writes with candor, humor and passion about her
upbringing in suburban, middle-class America in the 1950s
and her transformation from Goldwater Girl to student
activist to controversial First Lady. Living History
is her revealing memoir of life through the White House
years. It is also her chronicle of living history with Bill
Clinton, a thirty-year adventure in love and politics that
survives personal betrayal, relentless partisan
investigations and constant public scrutiny. Hillary
Rodham Clinton came of age during a time of tumultuous
social and political change in America. Like many women of
her generation, she grew up with choices and opportunities
unknown to her mother or grandmother. She charted her own
course through unexplored terrain -- responding to the
changing times and her own internal compass -- and became an
emblem for some and a lightning rod for others. Wife,
mother, lawyer, advocate and international icon, she has
lived through America's great political wars, from Watergate
to Whitewater. The only First Lady to play a major role
in shaping domestic legislation, Hillary Rodham Clinton
traveled tirelessly around the country to champion health
care, expand economic and educational opportunity and
promote the needs of children and families, and she
crisscrossed the globe on behalf of women's rights, human
rights and democracy. She redefined the position of First
Lady and helped save the presidency from an
unconstitutional, politically motivated impeachment.
Intimate, powerful and inspiring, Living History
captures the essence of one of the most remarkable women of
our time and the challenging process by which she came to
define herself and find her own voice -- as a woman and as a
formidable figure in American politics.
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