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Living history / Hillary Rodham Clinton.
LIBRA - Special E887.C55 A3 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clinton, Hillary Rodham.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Clinton, Hillary Rodham.
- United States. Congress. Senate.
- Presidents' spouses--United States--Biography.
- Presidents' spouses.
- United States.
- Legislators--United States--Biography.
- Legislators.
- United States. Congress. Senate--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xi, 562 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, [2003]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- An American Story 1
- University of Life 16
- Class of '69 27
- Yale 44
- Bill Clinton 52
- Arkansas Traveler 62
- Little Rock 76
- Campaign Odyssey 101
- Inauguration 117
- East Wing, West Wing 130
- Health Care 143
- The End of Something 156
- Vince Foster 165
- The Delivery Room 182
- Whitewater 193
- Independent Counsel 211
- D-Day 228
- Midterm Break 243
- Conversations with Eleanor 258
- Silence Is Not Spoken Here 268
- Oklahoma City 287
- Women's Rights Are Human Rights 298
- Shutdown 311
- A Time to Speak 325
- War Zones 338
- Prague Summer 353
- Kitchen Table 363
- Second Term 378
- Into Africa 397
- Vital Voices 409
- Third Way 422
- Soldiering On 439
- Imagine the Future 449
- August 1998 464
- Impeachment 471
- Waiting for Grace 484
- Dare to Compete 495
- New York 508.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0743222245
- OCLC:
- 52343577
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