The Clinton tapes : wrestling history with the president

Branch, Taylor.

Book 2009

While still a sitting president, Bill Clinton initiated a project to preserve for historians an unfiltered record of presidential experience. Clinton talks intimately over seven years to his long-time friend, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, about what it's like to be president, highlighting major events from Clinton's two terms, including war in Bosnia, the anti-deficit crusade, health reform failure, anti-terrorist strikes, peace initiatives...

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ISBN:

9781416543336
1416543333

Edition:

First Simon and Schuster hardcover edition

Description:

x, 707 pages ; 25 cm

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Publisher, pagination and printing dates may vary
Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Twin recorders
Reunion
Truman balcony
Culture clashes: from Bosnia to a haircut
Passages: NAFTA, China, Whitewater
Mother's death and the special prosecutor
Clinton and the press
Missiles in Baghdad
Supreme Court choices
Foreign travels
Hillary's dream
Haiti: the brink of war
Yeltsin and the Gingrich revolution
Tirades: "I really let them have it"
Bailout, bombs, and recovery
Oklahoma City
Girding for showdown
Pope John Paul II: "Tell me how you see the world"
Murder of Rabin
Triumph and fury: "You live to have only a few days like that"
Family feuds: from Greenspan to Saddam Hussein
Primary season
Terrorism, welfare reform, and the Chicago convention
Reelection 1996
Bittersweet renewal
Whitewater tapes: on the high wire
"I think they're pretty good rumors"
Jones case
Chinese land mines-- Buddy and Socks
Lewinsky
Impeached
Trial
Kosovo, Columbine, and Kashimir
To the Millennium: peacemakers and treason
On to New Hampshire
Camp David
Jerusalem and the three Ps
Deadlock 200: "This election is tight as a tick"
Farewell

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716062

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