First Partner: Hillary Rodham Clinton - Hardcover

Joyce Milton

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0788199676 ISBN 13: 9780788199677

Publisher: Morrow, William, & Co., 1999

Synopsis

Milton examines the First Lady s character, her values & her career. She goes behind the scenes at the Clinton White House & explores the First Lady s involvement in Travelgate, Filegate, the Health Care Task Force fiasco & fund-raising for the 1996 presidential campaign, showing how these controversies grew out of the tensions in her political partnership with Bill Clinton. Follows her through her years as a student activist at Wellesley & as a children s rights advocate at Yale, where she met Bill Clinton; her first Washington experience, as a legal staffer during the Watergate investigation; & as a corporate attorney & the first lady of the state of Arkansas. A keen new understanding of this complex woman.

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Review:

"Milton provides a contextual clarity that will deepen the understanding of veteran Hillary-watchers...[Her] refreshing efforts to set the record straight are indeed spirit-lifting...Fascinating detail."--"Washington Times"Milton chronicles Mrs. Clinton's lifelong capacity to reinvent herself with devastating accuracy."--"National Review"""The First Partner...is well-written and may be the single best compendium of every charge of malfeasance, true or false, that's ever been hurled at the Clintons."--"Washington Post"The most ravenous curiousity about Bill and Hillary Clinton's marriage is likely to be satisfied by this gossipy, well-written, and finally devastating biography of the woman in the White House."--"People

About the Author:

Joyce Milton is the author of Tramp: The Life of Charlie Chaplin and several other books. She is also the coauthor of The Rosenberg File. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Morrow, William, & Co.
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0788199676
• ISBN 13: 9780788199677
• Binding: Hardcover