| Descript |
1 online resource (xi, 496 p., [16] p. of plates) : ill. |
| Contents |
Pt. I. Local hero, 1946-1987. Small town boy: Hope, Arkansas -- A big city (pop. 29,397): Hot Springs -- Positive, positive, positive, positive: Georgetown -- Man of the world: Oxford and Yale -- On the move: an Arkansas politician -- Too much, too soon, too bad: rookie governor -- Out of the woodshed: exile and return -- Busy, busy, busy: governor again -- Comfort level: Bill and Black Arkansas -- Not bad, but...: potential unfulfilled -- pt. II. Rising star, 1987-1992. National Democrat: moving toward the White House -- Going for it: candidate -- Near-death experience: New Hampshire, 1992 -- All roads lead to Madison Square Garden: nominee -- A bubba, not a bozo: President-elect -- pt. III. Stumble, 1993-1994. Not an admiral: transition -- Bedlam at birth: getting started -- Bill asks, Colin tells: the President, the gays, the military -- New kid in town: permanent Washington greets the Clintons -- Debt on arrival: recharting an economic course -- A casino for Jesus: the budget bill -- The Yanks are coming: navigating a post-Cold War world -- Trade war: passing NAFTA -- Heroic measures: the fight to reform health care -- Stand-up guys: Bill, Boris, Jiang, Fidel -- Action, inaction: Somalia and Rwanda -- No way to run a railroad: fixing a dysfunctional White House -- From humiliation to celebration: Haiti -- Picturing peace: the Oslo signing -- Something is rotten in the State of Arkansas: Whitewater, the scandal begins -- Golfing with Willie Mays: Bill among friends -- Rebuke: the 1994 midterm election -- |
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Pt. IV. Recovery, 1995-1996. Picking up the pieces: the aftermath -- Relevant: Newt versus Clinton -- Pastor to the nation: Oklahoma City -- End of an era: the road back -- This town ain't big enough: shutdown showdown -- Shalom, chaver: the death of Yitzhak Rabin -- I'll show you mine if...: the big mistake -- A commander in chief (finally) commands: Bosnia, solved -- Ballot-box missionary: Irish troubles, Irish votes -- A deal with the devil? Ending welfare as we know it -- Slippery or steadfast? Shapeshifter -- Piece of cake: reelection -- pt. 5. Humiliation, 1997-2000. Reckless, stupid, human: wasting a precious gift -- Big bucks bedroom: scandal of the year, 1997 -- Nailed! Linda and Lucianne -- Pants on fire: the Jones deposition -- The bombshell wears a beret: enter Monica -- Scandal? What scandal? Compartmentalization -- The puritan and the pol: Starr versus Clinton -- Respite: a tour of Africa -- Today's word is 'is': the Grand Jury -- Speech defect: an unapologetic apology -- Sine qua non: Ulster's peacemaker -- Softcore: the Starr report -- For mature audiences only: a committee, a TV show -- DeLayed reaction: the midterms and the Majority Whip -- Impeach the rapist! Fifty boxes, four articles -- Amazing: a speech in Gaza -- Bad guys: going after Bin Laden and Saddam -- The hypocrisy police: Bob Livingston, porn star -- It's official: impeached -- It's about sex: the trial -- Seventy-eight days: Kosovo -- Down to the wire: Camp David and the Clinton ideas -- In denial: Bill Clinton and the election of 2000 -- Citizen Clinton, 2001- . Parting shots: leaving the White House -- Convening power: the Clinton Foundation -- Chasing a buck: making multimillions multinationally -- Bill in a China shop: Hillary for President, 2008 -- Unintended consequences: Clinton-era deregulation and the financial crisis of 2008-2009 -- Envoy: a visit to North Korea -- And now? The future of Bill Clinton -- Closing argument. |
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Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU |
| ISBN |
9780300168884 (e-book) |
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0300168888 (e-book) |
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9780300121308 |
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030012130X |
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