The Best of Times: America in the Clinton Years - Hardcover

Johnson, Haynes

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151004455 ISBN 13: 9780151004454

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2001

Synopsis

A sweeping social history of the 1990s by the best-selling author of Sleepwalking Through History draws on interviews with some of the decade's most prominent players to re-create some of the best and worst episodes of the era and explores the stories and personalities behind some of key events of the time. 150,000 first printing. BOMC & History Main.

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Review:

PRAISE FOR "THE" "BEST OF TIMES"
"Informed, balanced and . . . gripping. A vivid and reliable reminder of what we have been through."--"The New York Times"
"Drawn with insight, care, and an excellent eye for detail . . . Johnson is among the most brilliant chroniclers of our times, and he scores again here."--"The Boston Globe"
"A magnetic book that every thoughtful American will want to read."--"Publishers Weekly"
"Beautifully written . . . As full of juicy tidbits as a cherry cake. [Johnson shows] how witty, perceptive and morally grown up American political journalism can be at its best.""--The Economist"
PRAISE FOR "THE""BEST OF TIMES"

"Informed, balanced and . . . gripping. A vivid and reliable reminder of what we have been through."--"The New York Times"

"Drawn with insight, care, and an excellent eye for detail . . . Johnson is among the most brilliant chroniclers of our times, and he scores again here."--"The Boston Globe"

"A magnetic book that every thoughtful American will want to read."--"Publishers Weekly"

"Beautifully written . . . As full of juicy tidbits as a cherry cake. [Johnson shows] how witty, perceptive and morally grown up American political journalism can be at its best.""--The Economist"
PRAISE FOR"THE""BEST OF TIMES"

"Informed, balanced and . . . gripping. A vivid and reliable reminder of what we have been through."--"The New York Times"

"Drawn with insight, care, and an excellent eye for detail . . . Johnson is among the most brilliant chroniclers of our times, and he scores again here."--"The Boston Globe"

"A magnetic book that every thoughtful American will want to read."--"Publishers Weekly"

"Beautifully written . . . As full of juicy tidbits as a cherry cake. [Johnson shows] how witty, perceptive and morally grown up American political journalism can be at its best.""--The Economist"
PRAISE FOR "THE""BEST OF TIMES"
"Informed, balanced and . . . gripping. A vivid and reliable reminder of what we have been through."--"The New York Times"
"Drawn with insight, care, and an excellent eye for detail . . . Johnson is among the most brilliant chroniclers of our times, and he scores again here."--"The Boston Globe"
"A magnetic book that every thoughtful American will want to read."--"Publishers Weekly"
"Beautifully written . . . As full of juicy tidbits as a cherry cake. [Johnson shows] how witty, perceptive and morally grown up American political journalism can be at its best.""--The Economist"
PRAISE FOR THE BEST OF TIMES
"Informed, balanced and . . . gripping. A vivid and reliable reminder of what we have been through."--The New York Times
"Drawn with insight, care, and an excellent eye for detail . . . Johnson is among the most brilliant chroniclers of our times, and he scores again here."--The Boston Globe
"A magnetic book that every thoughtful American will want to read."--Publishers Weekly
"Beautifully written . . . As full of juicy tidbits as a cherry cake. [Johnson shows] how witty, perceptive and morally grown up American political journalism can be at its best."--The Economist

About the Author:

Haynes Johnson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of the bestsellers Sleepwalking Through History and The Bay of Pigs. He is a regular television commentator on NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and lives in Washington, D.C.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0151004455
• ISBN 13: 9780151004454
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 610