Bill and Hillary : the politics of the personal / William H. Chafe.
2012
E886 .C47 2012 (Mapit)
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Title
Bill and Hillary : the politics of the personal / William H. Chafe.
Author
Chafe, William H., 1942-
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780809094653 (alk. paper)
0809094657 (alk. paper)
0809094657 (alk. paper)
Imprint
New York : Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2012.
Language
English
Description
x, 387 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
E886 .C47 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
973.929092/2 B
Summary
In previous works the author has written powerfully about the relationship between personality and politics. This book represents the culmination of this approach to political history. Having written widely on civil rights and women's history, the author brings the themes of all his scholarship together in this book about the Clintons' "co-presidency," two people committed to both sex and race equality. From the beginning, he argues, the personal chemistry between the Clintons shaped definitively their political careers. She was instrumental in his triumphs as Arkansas governor and "saved" his presidential candidacy by standing with him during the Gennifer Flowers sex scandal. He responded by delegating presidential powers to her that no other First Lady had ever exercised. Often tempestuous, their relationship had as many lows as it did highs, but the trajectory of the Clintons' political lives can only be understood through the prism of their personal relationship. Full of insights about health care, Kenneth Starr, and welfare reform, this work gives texture and depth to the Clintons' lives, including the extent to which the Lewinsky scandal finally freed Hillary to become a politician in her own right and return to the consensus reformer she had been in college and law school.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Bill Clinton: the early years
Hillary Rodham: the early years
Oxford and the draft: a test of character
Hillary and Bill at Yale: two destinies intersect
The Arkansas years, part one: 1973-1980
The Arkansas years, part two: 1980-1991
"There is a place called Hope"
The first year
The health care debacle and the emergence of Kenneth Starr
Comeback number three
The roller coaster plummets
Survival and a new beginning
What if?
Hillary Rodham: the early years
Oxford and the draft: a test of character
Hillary and Bill at Yale: two destinies intersect
The Arkansas years, part one: 1973-1980
The Arkansas years, part two: 1980-1991
"There is a place called Hope"
The first year
The health care debacle and the emergence of Kenneth Starr
Comeback number three
The roller coaster plummets
Survival and a new beginning
What if?