42 : Inside the Presidency of Bill Clinton.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (345 pages)
- Miller Center of Public Affairs Bks. .
- Miller Center of Public Affairs Bks. .
42 -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Bill Clinton's Road to the White House -- Introduction: History and Bill Clinton -- Part I: Politics -- 1. Redividing Government: National Elections in the Clinton Years and Beyond -- 2. Triangulation: Position and Leadership in Clinton's Domestic Policy -- Part II: Domestic and Economic Policy -- 3. Compromise and Confrontation: Clinton's Evolving Relationship with Congress -- 4. Root Canal Politics: Economic Policy Making in the New Administration -- 5. The Broken Places: The Clinton Impeachment and American Politics -- 6. Clinton and Welfare Reform: An Oral History -- 7. Hillary Rodham Clinton: Recasting the Role of First Lady -- Part III: Foreign Policy -- 8. The Reluctant Grand Strategist at War: Diplomacy and Force in Bosnia and Kosovo -- 9. Peacemaker's Progress: Bill Clinton, Northern Ireland, and the Middle East -- Conclusion: Clinton's Legacy for Politics and Government -- Appendix 1: Interviewees for the William J. Clinton Presidential History Project -- Appendix 2: Interviewers for the William J. Clinton Presidential History Project -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index.
This book uses hundreds of hours of newly opened interviews and other sources to illuminate the life and times of the nation's forty-second president, Bill Clinton. 42 provides a multidimensional portrait of Bill Clinton's administration, drawing largely on the observations of those who knew it best.
9781501706202
United States--Politics and government--1993-2001--Congresses.