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Bill Clinton

Mastering the Presidency

Nigel Hamilton author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cornerstone

Published:3rd Jul '08

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The second volume in the critically acclaimed biography of Bill Clinton

Charts the experience of Bill Clinton, the 42nd President as he took presidential oath of office - and how he fared thereafter in the piranha pool of Washington DC. This title describes what was possibly the greatest disaster and re-reinvention of a president in office in modern times.

Nigel Hamilton's account of Bill Clinton's early life and career - Bill Clinton: An American Journey - drew widespread praise. Now, in Bill Clinton: Mastering the Presidency, Nigel Hamilton charts the experience of the 42nd President as he took presidential oath of office- and how he fared therafter in the piranha pool of Washington D.C.

Hamilton charts what was possibly the greatest disaster and re-reinvention of a president in office in modern times. How Bill Clinton faced up to his failures, and refashioned himself in the White House is an epic story. With a thriving U.S. economy and hard-won wisdom in international affairs and in combating the rise of terrorism, Clinton would begin his second term as the undisputed, immensely popular leader of the Western world - aware, however, that terrors ant treason within America loomed as large as dangers abroad.

Insightful, balanced, prodigiously researched and a joy to read, Bill Clinton: Mastering the Presidency is set to become, alongside its prequel, the classic story of Clinton's extraordinary effort to be a modern president, in a modern world-and a chronicle one of the most extraordinary reversals of fortune in modern American politics.

This book is impressive, displaying great intelligence * Mail on Sunday *
Written with verve, researchd with diligence, this is already the best and deepest assessment of Bill Clinton * Observer *

ISBN: 9780099461340

Dimensions: 197mm x 129mm x 34mm

Weight: 534g

784 pages