Bill Clinton

by Hamilton, Nigel

• ISBN13: 9781586485160
• ISBN10: 1586485164
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-07-09
• Publisher: Public Affairs

Summary

A decade-and-a-half after President 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 disastrouslykicking off with the worst transition in living memory and deteriorating through a series of fiascos, from gays in the military to Hillary Clinton's failed health care reform. How Bill Clinton faced up to his failures and refashioned himself in the White House thereafter is an epic, hitherto unwritten storya story that climaxes with the trouncing of Bob Dole in the landslide presidential election in 1996. Clinton began his second term as the undisputed and tremendously popular leader of the Western world. In vivid prose, Hamilton charts Clinton's dramatic reversal of fortune and his ultimate triumph over himselfand his foes.Bill Clinton: Mastering the Presidencyis a riveting narrative of American politics, an incisive character portrait, and powerful reminder of what a great president can accomplish.

Author Biography

Nigel Hamilton is the author of Monty, an award-winning three-volume biography of World War II commander Bernard Montgomery, of JFK: Reckless Youth, a bestselling narrative of the early life President John F. Kennedy, and Bill Clinton: An American Journey. He is a Fellow of the McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston.

Table of Contents

Prologue	p. xiii
Paradise Lost
The Freshman	p. 3
Inauguration	p. 5
Investment or Deficit Reduction?	p. 17
A Perilous Transition	p. 23
Attorney General	p. 41
Gays in the Military	p. 46
Camp David I	p. 54
Camp David II	p. 67
Hillary's Mess	p. 72
Addressing the Nation	p. 76
The Clash of Civilizations	p. 83
The World Trade Center Is Bombed	p. 85
Waco	p. 90
Eisenhower Republican?	p. 93
Reducing the Deficit	p. 99
The Red Queen	p. 113
Star Wars	p. 115
Politics as a spectator Sport	p. 129
Lani Guinier	p. 134
A Shrinking President	p. 143
Vince Foster	p. 147
Mending the Economy	p. 157
The Economic Bill	p. 159
An Indian Summer	p. 173
Addressing Health Care Reform	p. 181
A Ship of Fools	p. 185
Black Hawk Down	p. 187
The Harlan County Fiosco	p. 194
Troopergate	p. 199
Inspector Jackson	p. 201
Harry and Louise	p. 219
NAFTA Passes	p. 228
Conspiracy	p. 231
Shaming the President	p. 233
A New Era of Voyeurism	p. 245
Low Tide	p. 249
The Black Pen	p. 257
The Swing to the Right	p. 259
Pandora's Box	p. 268
Proximity to Disgrace	p. 277
An American Platonov	p. 281
The President Never Adjourns	p. 286
The Fury of An Aroused Democracy	p. 289
Drawing the Line	p. 291
McLarty Is Replaced	p. 295
Exit Health Care Reform	p. 300
War in Haiti	p. 305
Expressions of Personal Hatred	p. 307
Clinton's War	p. 310
The Junta's Time Is Up	p. 315
The Contract with America	p. 331
Newt Gingrich	p. 333
Blueprint for the Neo-Reaganite Future	p. 341
Midterm Meltdown	p. 349
The Funk	p. 357
At the Crossroads	p. 359
Wooing the DLC	p. 368
In the Tiger's Den	p. 379
Veering Right	p. 383
Paradise Regained
A Comeback Fellow	p. 393
A President's Epiphany	p. 395
Mexico: The First Crisis of the Twenty-first Century	p. 400
Dying by the Sword	p. 406
The General's Doorbell	p. 410
A New Strategy	p. 413
State of the Union 1995	p. 417
The Turning Point	p. 430
Oklahoma City	p. 435
The Plot Against America	p. 437
His Finest Hour	p. 441
In the Aftermath of Oklahoma	p. 447
Turning the Battleship	p. 457
Triangulating Morris	p. 459
First Veto	p. 471
Endgame	p. 480
Commander-In-Chief	p. 487
Srebrenica	p. 489
Operation Deliberate Force	p. 494
Affirmative Actions	p. 498
Peace in Bosnia	p. 511
A Historic Power Struggle	p. 519
The Full Clinton	p. 529
In the Pinching Cave	p. 531
Achilles' Heel	p. 535
Standards of Behavior	p. 539
Cease-Fire	p. 547
King Billy	p. 553
Theater of the Absurd	p. 559
A Gift from Heaven	p. 561
The Second Suicide	p. 567
A Winner Emerges	p. 573
Monica, Act II	p. 581
Dole's Faustian Bargain	p. 583
Inquisition	p. 587
Bound to Blab	p. 590
Beating Republicans at Their Own Game	p. 596
Exit Monica	p. 599
Getting Rid of the Clutch	p. 601
The Death of Ron Brown	p. 608
The Summer Of '96	p. 611
A Darker Challenge	p. 613
Outflanking Dole	p. 623
The Fall of Morris	p. 628
The Debates	p. 635
Dole's Prayers Are Not Answered	p. 637
A Question of Character	p. 645
Acknowledgments	p. 657
Notes	p. 661
Bibliography	p. 721
Index	p. 729
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