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Inside the Presidency of Bill Clinton

De: Michael Nelson, Barbara A. Perry, Russell L. Riley

Narrado por: Kirk O. Winkler

This book uses hundreds of hours of newly opened interviews and other sources to illuminate the life and times of the nation's 42nd president, Bill Clinton. Included are path-breaking chapters on the major domestic and foreign policy initiatives of the Clinton years, as well as objective discussions of political success and failures.

This is the first book to make extensive use of previously closed interviews collected for the Clinton Presidential History Project. Interviewees offered political and leadership lessons they had gleaned as eyewitnesses to and shapers of history. Their spoken recollections provide invaluable detail about the inner history of the presidency in an age when personal diaries and discursive letters are seldom written.

The authors producing this volume had first access to more than 50 of these cleared interviews, including sessions with White House chiefs of staff Mack McLarty and Leon Panetta, Secretaries of State Warren Christopher and Madeleine Albright, National Security Advisors Anthony Lake and Sandy Berger, and a host of political advisors who guided Clinton into the White House and helped keep him there. This book thus provides a multidimensional portrait of Bill Clinton's administration, drawing largely on the observations of those who knew it best.

©2016 Cornell University (P)2016 Redwood Audiobooks

Reseñas de la Crítica

"This book makes an original and significant contribution to presidency studies and American politics with its comprehensive assessment of the Clinton presidency...presents a complete and informative evaluation of the Clinton presidency." (Meena Bose, Hofstra University)