Author: Carl Bernstein
Translator: Il-joon Cho
Publisher: Hyeonmun Media
Hardcover | 736 pages | 223*152mm
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About This Book
Carl Bernstein's stunning portrait of Hillary Rodham Clinton shows us,
as nothing else has, the true trajectory of her life and career with its
zigzag bursts of risks taken and safety sought. Marshaling all the
skills and energy that propelled his history-making Pulitzer Prize
reporting on Watergate, Bernstein gives us the most detailed,
sophisticated, comprehensive, and revealing account we have had of the
complex human being and political meteor who has already helped define
one presidency and may well become, herself, the woman in charge of
another.
We see the shaping of Hillary as a self-described "mind conservative and
heart liberal" ?her ostensibly idyllic Midwestern girlhood (her mother a
nurturer, but her father a disciplinarian, harsher than she has
acknowledged); her early development of deep religious feelings; her
curiosity fueled by dedicated teachers, by exposure to Martin Luther
King Jr., by the ferment of the sixties, and, above all, by a desire to
change the world. At Wellesley, we watch Hillary, a Republican turned
Democrat, thriving in the new sky's-the-limit freedom for women, already
perceived as a spokeswoman for her generation, her commencement speech
celebrated in Life magazine. And the book takes us to Yale Law School as
Hillary meets and falls in love with Bill Clinton and cancels her dream
to go her own way, to New York or Washington, tying her fortune,
instead, to his in Arkansas.
Bernstein clarifies the often amazing dynamic of their marriage, shows
us the extent to which Hillary has been instrumental in the triumphs and
troubles of Bill Clinton's governorship and presidency, and sheds light
on her own political brilliance and her blind spots, especially her
suspicion and mishandling of the press and her overt hostility to the
opposition that clouded her entry into the capital. He untangles her
relationship to Whitewater, Troopergate, and Travelgate. He leads us to
understand the failure of her health care initiative.
In the emotional and political chaos of the Lewinsky affair we see
Hillary, despite her immense hurt and anger, standing by her husband,
evoking a rising wave of sympathy from a public previously cool to her.
It helps carry her into the Senate, where she applies the political
lessons she has learned. It is now her time. As she decides to run for
president, her husband now her valued aide, she has one more chance to
fulfill her ambition for herself, to change the world.
In his preparation for A Woman in Charge, Bernstein reexamined
everything pertinent written about and by Hillary Clinton. He
interviewed some two hundred of her colleagues, friends, and enemies and
was allowed unique access to the candid record of the 1992 presidential
campaign kept by Hillary's best friend, Diane Blair.
He has given us a book that enables us, at last, to address the
questions Americans are insistently, even obsessively, asking about
Hillary Clinton: What is her character? What is her political
philosophy? Who is she? What can we expect of her?
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