Bill Clinton Mastering the Presidency |
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Author:
| Hamilton, Nigel |
ISBN: | 978-1-58648-665-5 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2008 |
Publisher: | PublicAffairs
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $17.95 |
Book Description:
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From best-selling, award-winning biographer Nigel Hamilton, this is an insightful, prodigiously researched, and wonderfully readable account of Bill Clinton's first term in office. It shows how a well-meaning but naïve new president failed to assert true leadership in his first two years, and then illustrates how, in an astonishing act of self-reinvention, the president turned defeat into victory.
Bill Clinton: Mastering the Presidency is a gripping tale of hubris and...
More DescriptionFrom best-selling, award-winning biographer Nigel Hamilton, this is an insightful, prodigiously researched, and wonderfully readable account of Bill Clinton's first term in office. It shows how a well-meaning but naïve new president failed to assert true leadership in his first two years, and then illustrates how, in an astonishing act of self-reinvention, the president turned defeat into victory.Bill Clinton: Mastering the Presidency is a gripping tale of hubris and redemption--and a chronicle of one of the most dramatic reversals of fortune in modern American politics.