42 : inside the Presidency of Bill Clinton / edited by Michael Nelson, Barbara A. Perry, and Russell L. Riley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nelson, Michael, 1949- editor.

Perry, Barbara A. (Barbara Ann), 1956- editor.

Riley, Russell L. (Russell Lynn), 1958- editor.

White Burkett Miller Center, associated with work.

Series:

Miller Center of Public Affairs Books

Standardized Title:

42 (Nelson, Perry and Riley)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clinton, Bill, 1946---Congresses.

Clinton, Bill.

United States--Politics and government--1993-2001--Congresses.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Forty-two

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, New York ; London, England : Cornell University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book uses hundreds of hours of newly opened interviews and other sources to illuminate the life and times of the nation's forty-second president, Bill Clinton. Combining the authoritative perspective of these inside accounts with the analytic powers of some of America's most distinguished presidential scholars, the essays assembled here offer a major advance in our collective understanding of the Clinton White House. 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 failure. 42 is the first book to make extensive use of previously closed interviews collected for the Clinton Presidential History Project, conducted by the Presidential Oral History Program of the University of Virginia's Miller Center. These interviews, recorded by teams of scholars working under a veil of strict confidentiality, explored officials' memories of their service with President Clinton and their careers prior to joining the administration. Interviewees also 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword / Kamarck, Elaine

Preface / Nelson, Michael / Perry, Barbara A. / Riley, Russell L.

Bill Clinton's Road to the White House

Introduction: History and Bill Clinton / Riley, Russell L.

Part I. Politics

1. Redividing Government: National Elections in the Clinton Years and Beyond / Nelson, Michael

2. Triangulation: Position and Leadership in Clinton's Domestic Policy / Nesmith, Bruce F. / Quirk, Paul J.

Part II. Domestic and Economic Policy

3. Compromise and Confrontation: Clinton's Evolving Relationship with Congress / Theriault, Sean M. / Hickey, Patrick T. / Moeller, Megan

4. Root Canal Politics: Economic Policy Making in the New Administration / Doherty, Brendan J.

5. The Broken Places: The Clinton Impeachment and American Politics / Rudalevige, Andrew

6. Clinton and Welfare Reform: An Oral History / Nelson, Michael

7. Hillary Rodham Clinton: Recasting the Role of First Lady / Perry, Barbara A.

Part III. Foreign Policy

8. The Reluctant Grand Strategist at War: Diplomacy and Force in Bosnia and Kosovo / Bakich, Spencer D.

9. Peacemaker's Progress: Bill Clinton, Northern Ireland, and the Middle East / Strong, Robert A.

Conclusion: Clinton's Legacy for Politics and Government / Milkis, Sidney M.

Appendix 1: Interviewees for the William J. Clinton Presidential History Project

Appendix 2: Interviewers for the William J. Clinton Presidential History Project

Notes

List of Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780801456893

0801456894

9781501706202

1501706209

OCLC:

953885050