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Bill and Hillary Clinton: The White House Years
Random House
November 2007
On Sale: October 23, 2007
Featuring: President Bill Clinton; Hillary Clinton
608 pages
ISBN: 1400063248
EAN: 9781400063246
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
During their eight years in the White House, Bill and
Hillary Clinton worked together more closely than the public
ever knew. Their intertwined personal and professional lives
had far-reaching consequences–for politics, domestic policy,
and international affairs–and their marital troubles became
a national soap opera. Based on unparalleled access to
scores of Clinton insiders–cabinet officers, top
administration officials, close personal friends–and skilled
analysis of a vast written record, including previously
unavailable private papers, For Love of Politics is
the first book to explain the dynamics of Bill and Hillary’s
relationship, showing that they are two halves of a unique
whole and that it is impossible to understand one Clinton
without factoring in the other.
Sally Bedell Smith,
acclaimed author of Grace and Power: The Private World of
the Kennedy White House, offers intimate scenes
from the Clinton marriage, with new details and insights
into how a passion for politics sustained Bill and Hillary
through one crisis after another. With clarity and depth,
Smith examines the origins of an unconventional
copresidency, explains the impact of the Clintons’ tensions
as well as their talents, and reveals how Hillary shifted
from openly exercising power in the first two years to
acting as a “hidden hand,” advising her husband on a range
of foreign and domestic issues as well as decisions on
hiring and firing.
Smith describes for the first
time the inner workings of a White House with an
unprecedented “three forces to be reckoned with”–Bill,
Hillary, and Al Gore–and shows how the First Lady’s rivalry
with the Vice President played out in the West Wing and even
more profoundly during the 2000 campaign. As Hillary seeks
to follow in her husband’s footsteps, this riveting book
will leave readers marveling at what they never knew about
Bill’s intensely covered presidency–and wondering what it
would be like to have two presidents, both named Clinton,
living in the White House.
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