42: Inside the Presidency of Bill Clinton
Michael Nelson, Barbara A. Perry, and Russell L. Riley
Abstract
This book uses hundreds of hours of newly opened interviews and other sources to illuminate the life and times of Bill Clinton. Combining the authoritative perspective of these inside accounts with the analytic powers of some of America’s most distinguished presidential scholars, the chapters offer a major advance in our collective understanding of the Clinton White House. Included are chapters on the major domestic and foreign policy initiatives of the Clinton years, as well as objective discussions of political success and failure. This is the first book to make extensive use of previously c ... More
This book uses hundreds of hours of newly opened interviews and other sources to illuminate the life and times of Bill Clinton. Combining the authoritative perspective of these inside accounts with the analytic powers of some of America’s most distinguished presidential scholars, the chapters offer a major advance in our collective understanding of the Clinton White House. Included are chapters on the major domestic and foreign policy initiatives of the Clinton years, as well as objective discussions of political success and failure. This is the first book to make extensive use of previously closed interviews collected for the Clinton Presidential History Project, conducted by the Presidential Oral History Program of the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. These interviews explored officials’ memories of their service with President Clinton and their careers prior to joining the administration. Interviewees also offered political and leadership lessons they had gleaned as eyewitnesses to and shapers of history. Their spoken recollections provide invaluable detail about the inner history of the presidency in an age when personal diaries and discursive letters are seldom written. The authors had first access to more than fifty of these cleared interviews. The book provides a multidimensional portrait of Bill Clinton’s administration, drawing largely on the observations of those who knew it best.
Keywords:
Bill Clinton,
Clinton White House,
domestic policy,
foreign policy,
President Clinton,
leadership lessons,
political lessons
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780801454066 |
| Published to University Press Scholarship Online: January 2017 |
DOI:10.7591/cornell/9780801454066.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Michael Nelson, editor
Rhodes College
Barbara A. Perry, editor
University of Virginia's Miller Center
Russell L. Riley, editor
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