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Chargement... Bill Clinton: Mastering the Presidencypar Nigel Hamilton
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Although it is not Nigel Hamilton's fault, his Clinton biography suffers from the fact that there is a limit to the kind of sources a researcher has access to. Most of the story's key characters have yet to write their memoirs. A lot of official documents will remain classified for years to come. So it rarely gets really juicy. We are never flies on the wall. It is a good read though and we do get a good idea of how Clinton failed miserably in the first year or so simply by not running a tight ship; Clinton's indecision during the all important transition period is well described. Once in the White House he failed to control his wife Hillary who had come barging in demanding the vice president Al Gore's office - great stuff!! It was only when the Democrats lost the congressional elections in 1992 that Clinton finally gained the initiative and in turn defeated the Gingrich revolution. I look forward to the third volume of Hamilton's Clinton trilogy. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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A decade and a half after William Jefferson Clinton first took the oath of office, biographer Nigel Hamilton tells the riveting story of what was possibly the greatest self-reinvention of a president in office in modern times. The Clinton presidency began disastrously and deteriorated in a series of fiascoes. How Bill Clinton faced up to his failures and refashioned himself in the White House thereafter is the focus of this hitherto unwritten story. With his landslide win in the 1996 presidential election, Clinton began his second term as the undisputed, tremendously popular leader of the Western world. In vivid prose, this riveting narrative charts Clinton's dramatic reversal of fortune and his ultimate triumph over himself and his foes, a powerful reminder of what a great president can accomplish. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Again, quoting my remarks after reading the first of these books, I hoped that I would end up with an understanding of the 'big ideas' of the Clinton Presidency: I did.
I would apologise to Mr. Hamilton for only awarding part one three and a half stars. When the two books are dovetailed, the effect is a thorough understanding of Bill Clinton the man, and the President. ( )