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Branch, Taylor.
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Clinton, Bill, 1946- -- Interviews.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
Politicians -- United States -- Biography.
Reporters and reporting -- United States.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1993-2001.
United States -- History -- 1969- -- Biography.
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Branch, Taylor.
Clinton, Bill, 1946- -- Interviews.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
Politicians -- United States -- Biography.
Reporters and reporting -- United States.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1993-2001.
United States -- History -- 1969- -- Biography.
MARC Display
The
Clinton
tapes
:
wrestling
history
with the
president
/ Taylor Branch.
by
Branch, Taylor.
Simon & Schuster, 2009.
Call #:
973.929 C641br
Subjects
Clinton
, Bill, 1946- -- Interviews.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
Politicians -- United States -- Biography.
Reporters and reporting -- United States.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1993-2001.
United States --
History
-- 1969- -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781416543336
1416543333
Edition:
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Description:
x, 707 p. ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Twin recorders -- Reunion -- The Truman balcony -- Culture clashes: from Bosnia to a haircut -- Passages: NAFTA, China, Whitewater -- A mother's death and the special prosecutor --
Clinton
and the press -- Missiles in Baghdad -- Supreme Court choices -- Foreign travels -- Hillary's dream -- Haiti: the brink of war -- Yeltsin and the Gingrich revolution -- Tirades: "I really let them have it" -- Bailout, bombs, and recovery -- Oklahoma City -- Girding for showdown -- Pope John Paul II: "Tell me how you see the world" -- Murder of Rabin -- Triumph and fury: "You live to have only a few days like that" -- Family feuds: from Greenspan to Saddam Hussein -- Primary season -- Terrorism, welfare reform, and the Chicago convention -- Reelection 1996 -- Bittersweet renewal -- Whitewater
tapes
: on the high wire -- "I think they're pretty good rumors" -- The Jones case -- Chinese land mines-- Buddy and Socks -- Lewinsky -- Impeached -- Trial -- Kosovo, Columbine, and Kashimir -- To the Millennium: peacemakers and treason -- On to New Hampshire -- Camp David -- Jerusalem and the three Ps -- Deadlock 200: "This election is tight as a tick" -- Farewell.
Summary:
While still a sitting
president
, Bill
Clinton
initiated a project to preserve for historians an unfiltered record of presidential experience.
Clinton
talks intimately over seven years to his long-time friend, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, about what it's like to be
president
, highlighting major events from
Clinton
's two terms, including war in Bosnia, the anti-deficit crusade, health reform failure, anti-terrorist strikes, peace initiatives, the 1996 re-election campaign, and Whitewater investigations culminating in his 1999 impeachment trial.
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