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作 者:Martin Walker

出 版 社:Crown Publishers,Inc

出版时间:1996 年1月

I S B N:051759871X

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Martin Walker's critical biography of Bill Clinton focuses on the president as a classical figure of America's post-World War II meritocracy, a poor boy from the segregated Old South who won scholarships to elite universities and became a lawyer fascinated by the process and the power of government. Walker, who first met Bill Clinton at Oxford, reveals a private life that has resonated to the rhythmic cliches of a countryand-western song: Clinton's father died in a car wreck before he was born; his mother buried three husbands and married two more; his own marriage tottered under the pain he admitted inflicting upon it. This president's background is as grittily American as the woeful tales that wail from jukeboxes in bars across the land. Bill Clinton is Bubba with brains, a redneck with a Rhodes scholarship--America at her most raw,and most cultivated. Martin Walker presents a thorough and insightful account of the tumultuous Clinton administration from the president's foreign policy failures in Bosnia and Somalia to his successes in the Baltic and Northern Ireland, and to the ever-changing role of HiUary Rodham Clinton and her impact on her husband's presidency, beginning with the First Lady's health reform efforts to her involvement in Whitewater and the travel office controversy. Martin Walker shows us the why, the how,and the future of the Clinton administration,which has been unpredictable, volatile, and continuaUy fascinating. ...
  

作者简介

MARTIN WALKER is the U.S. Bureau Chief for Britain's Guardian and is a regular commentator for CNN, the CBC, National Public Radio,Monitor Radio, and the BBC. He also writes a regular column for the LosAngeles Times and is an occasional contributor to the New York Times and the Washington Post. He is the author of The Cold War.'A History. He lives in Washington, D.C. ...
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目录

acknowledgments
introduction
one getting there
1 the making of a candidate
2 the making of a political animal
3 the making of a governor
4 governing and the making of a party animal
5 the 1992 campaign: the primaries
6 the 1992 campaign: the general election
two being there
7 transition
8 the dreadful start
9 clinton and the media
10 the three h problems: hillary, health, and hubris
11 whitewater
three staying there
12 the whole world waiting
13 trade wars
14 clinton's relaunch and the republican recovery
i5 the coming of the new consensus
.clinton administration chronology
index

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