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Living History

By Hillary Rodham Clinton

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| Paperback | 9780743222259

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The Phenomenal #1 Worldwide Bestseller

WITH A NEW AFTERWORD

The Phenomenal #1 Worldwide Bestseller

WITH A NEW AFTERWORD

Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions of people around the world. Yet few beyond her close friends and family have ever heard her account of her extraordinary journey. She writes with candor, humor and passion about her upbringing in suburban, middle-class America in the 1950s and her transformation from Goldwater Girl to student activist to controversial First Lady. Living History is her revealing memoir of life through the White House years. It is also her chronicle of living history with Bill Clinton, a thirty-year adventure in love and politics that survives personal betrayal, relentless partisan investigations and constant public scrutiny.

Hillary Rodham Clinton came of age during a time of tumultuous social and political change in America. Like many women of her generation, she grew up with choices and opportunities unknown to her mother or grandmother. She charted her own course through unexplored terrain -- responding to the changing times and her own internal compass -- and became an emblem for some and a lightning rod for others. Wife, mother, lawyer, advocate and international icon, she has lived through America's great political wars, from Watergate to Whitewater.

The only First Lady to play a major role in shaping domestic legislation, Hillary Rodham Clinton traveled tirelessly around the country to champion health care, expand economic and educational opportunity and promote the needs of children and families, and she crisscrossed the globe on behalf of women's rights, human rights and democracy. She redefined the position of First Lady and helped save the presidency from an unconstitutional, politically motivated impeachment. Intimate, powerful and inspiring, Living History captures the essence of one of the most remarkable women of our time and the challenging process by which she came to define herself and find her own voice -- as a woman and as a formidable figure in American politics.

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The throne behind the power

Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton 562pp, Headline, £20 In spring 2001, Monica Lewinsky was interviewed for a TV special in New York. Asked whether she regretted that her affair with the president had wounded his wife, Lewinsky tossed her hair ... (read full critics)

guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

Loyal to a fault

Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton Headline £20, pp528 The instant frothings, of course, have been all about Monica, Bill, and Hillary's terrible fury: her 'gulping, crying and yelling', her 'devastation and shock' over this 'stinging betrayal' ... (read full critics)

guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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If she becomes the president of US, perhaps the world could be a bit more sensible place! The candidate for the US president has developed or naturally had the strong sense of social responsibility since her early childhood as well as the strong debate skills which she admits to have.
She soun ... (continue)

If she becomes the president of US, perhaps the world could be a bit more sensible place! The candidate for the US president has developed or naturally had the strong sense of social responsibility since her early childhood as well as the strong debate skills which she admits to have.
She sounds even wise when she writes on Monika Lewinsky topic.

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