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A complicated man : the life of Bill Clinton as told by those who know him /
Though Bill Clinton has been out of office since 2001, public fascination with him continues unabated. Many books about Clinton have been published in recent years, but no single-volume biography covers the full scope of Clinton's life from the cradle to the present day; and books on Clinton ha...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. I. Local hero, 1946-1987. Small town boy: Hope, Arkansas
- A big city (pop. 29,397): Hot Springs
- Positive, positive, positive, positive: Georgetown
- Man of the world: Oxford and Yale
- On the move: an Arkansas politician
- Too much, too soon, too bad: rookie governor
- Out of the woodshed: exile and return
- Busy, busy, busy: governor again
- Comfort level: Bill and Black Arkansas
- Not bad, but ... : potential unfulfilled
- pt. II. Rising star, 1987-1992. National Democrat: moving toward the White House
- Going for it: candidate
- Near-death experience: New Hampshire, 1992
- All roads lead to Madison Square Garden: nominee
- A bubba, not a bozo: President-elect
- pt. III. Stumble, 1993-1994. Not an admiral: transition
- Bedlam at birth: getting started
- Bill asks, Colin tells: the President, the gays, the military
- New kid in town: permanent Washington greets the Clintons
- Debt on arrival: recharting an economic course
- A casino for Jesus: the budget bill
- The Yanks are coming: navigating a post-Cold War world
- Trade war: passing NAFTA
- Heroic measures: the fight to reform health care
- Stand-up guys: Bill, Boris, Jiang, Fidel
- Action, inaction: Somalia and Rwanda
- No way to run a railroad: fixing a dysfunctional White House
- From humiliation to celebration: Haiti
- Picturing peace: the Oslo signing
- Something is rotten in the State of Arkansas: Whitewater, the scandal begins
- Golfing with Willie Mays: Bill among friends
- Rebuke: the 1994 midterm election.
- pt. IV. Recovery, 1995-1996. Picking up the pieces: the aftermath
- Relevant: Newt versus Clinton
- Pastor to the nation: Oklahoma City
- End of an era: the road back
- This town ain't big enough: shutdown showdown
- Shalom, chaver: the death of Yitzhak Rabin
- I'll show you mine if ... : the big mistake
- A commander in chief (finally) commands: Bosnia, solved
- Ballot-box missionary: Irish troubles, Irish votes
- A deal with the devil? Ending welfare as we know it
- Slippery or steadfast? Shapeshifter
- Piece of cake: reelection
- pt. 5. Humiliation, 1997-2000. Reckless, stupid, human: wasting a precious gift
- Big bucks bedroom: scandal of the year, 1997
- Nailed! Linda and Lucianne
- Pants on fire: the Jones deposition
- The bombshell wears a beret: enter Monica
- Scandal? What scandal? Compartmentalization
- The puritan and the pol: Starr versus Clinton
- Respite: a tour of Africa
- Today's word is 'is': the Grand Jury
- Speech defect: an unapologetic apology
- Sine qua non: Ulster's peacemaker
- Softcore: the Starr report
- For mature audiences only: a committee, a TV show
- DeLayed reaction: the midterms and the Majority Whip
- Impeach the rapist! Fifty boxes, four articles
- Amazing: a speech in Gaza
- Bad guys: going after Bin Laden and Saddam
- The hypocrisy police: Bob Livingston, porn star
- It's official: impeached
- It's about sex: the trial
- Seventy-eight days: Kosovo
- Down to the wire: Camp David and the Clinton ideas
- In denial: Bill Clinton and the election of 2000
- Citizen Clinton, 2001- Parting shots: leaving the White House
- Convening power: the Clinton Foundation
- Chasing a buck: making multimillions multinationally
- Bill in a China shop: Hillary for President, 2008
- Unintended consequences: Clinton-era deregulation and the financial crisis of 2008-2009
- Envoy: a visit to North Korea
- And now? The future of Bill Clinton
- Closing argument.