The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House - Hardcover

Woodward, Bob

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0671864866 ISBN 13: 9780671864866

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd, 1994

Synopsis

Working behind the scenes for the eighteen months following Bill Clinton's election, conducting hundreds of interviews with administration insiders and other key officials, and gaining access to confidential internal memos, diaries, and meeting notes, Bob Woodward has discovered how the Clinton White House really works. Clinton's pledge for a new economic deal was the cornerstone of his 1992 campaign, and fulfilling it has been his central ambition and enterprise as president. By focusing on Clinton's efforts to pass a comprehensive economic recovery plan, Woodward takes us not only to the highest level meetings, the hard-fought debates, and the most difficult decisions but also to the very hear of this presidency -- and of this man. With its day-by-day, often minute-by-minute account, it is one of the most intimate portraits of a sitting president ever published. President Clinton is shown as he debates, scolds, pleads, celebrates, and rages in anger and frustration. What emerges also is a group portrait of Clinton's innermost circle of advisers in action -- including his wife, Hillary; Vice President Al Gore; Treasure Secretary Lloyd Bentsen and the economic team; George Stephanopoulos and David Gergen and the White House staff; James Carville, Paul Begala, and the other outside political strategists; Congressional leaders; and Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. Using his proven research method -- returning time and again to key sources and relying on the paper trail of internal documentation -- Woodward has assembled an extensive archive of the early Clinton presidency. This microscopic examination of the Clintons and this administration, working under pressure onthe nation's most important task, reveals the deep and still unsettled conflicts among President Clinton's advisers and within himself. The questions about the federal deficit, health care, welfare reform, taxes, jobs, government spending, interest rates, the roles and responsibilities of the middle class, the wealthy, and the poor are of lasting importance. How they are being answered affects each person in the country.

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Review

"A compulsive, Grisham-like read."

-- "The New York Times Book Review"

"A compulsive, Grisham-like read."

-- "The New York Times Book Review"

"A triumph of the reporter's art."

-- "The Washington Post Book World"

"A triumph of the reporter's art."
-- "The Washington Post Book World"

"A compulsive, Grisham-like read."
-- "The New York Times Book Review"

""The Agenda" is a great read.... The pace is fast, the quotes are crisp, and the scenes are often dramatic.... Spellbinding political drama."
-- "The Philadelphia Inquirer"

"A triumph of the reporter's art."
-- The Washington Post Book World

"A compulsive, Grisham-like read."
-- The New York Times Book Review

"As always, Woodward...displays an amazing ability to get his sources to say things they shouldn't."
-- BusinessWeek

"The Agenda is a great read.... The pace is fast, the quotes are crisp, and the scenes are often dramatic.... Spellbinding political drama."
-- The Philadelphia Inquirer

About the Author

Bob Woodward is the Assistant Managing Editor for investigations at The Washington Post. Over the last twenty years, he has authored or co-authored six number-one national bestsellers. Woodward and Carl Bernstein, in their Pulitzer Prize-winning work for The Washington Post and their two books, All the President's Men and The Final Days, set the standard for White House reporting. Since then Woodward has tackled the Supreme Court in The Brethren, the Hollywood drug culture in Wired, the CIA in Veil, and the Pentagon in The Commanders. In The Agenda, he returns to the White House drama, producing one of the most illuminating books on the modern presidency.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0671864866
• ISBN 13: 9780671864866
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352