No public figure in contemporary life has elicited more polarized reactions than Hillary Rodhan Clinton.The first presidential spouse who pursued a major policy-making role,the belea-guered first lady has been a heroine and role model to her feminist allies—and,to her conservative foes,a malevolent ,power-mad shrew.Is she Bill Clinton's greatest asset,or his greatest liability?
Now David Brock ,America's most controver-sial journalist,has taken on the most controversial first lady in history,producing a boldly incisive yet surprisingly sensitive portrait.The Hillary Rodham who emerges from these pages is not just a fasci-nating and unofficial leader of an activist lib-eral cohortthat was born in the social and civil unrest of the1960s and has risen tothe highest lev-els of Americna goernment .A political biography of the highet order,the Seducion of Hillary Rodham is the story of one strong-willed wonan's struggle tomaintain her personal and political intergrity in the face ofpowerfuly seductive forces：the allure of a religiously inspired progressive ide-olgy that engendered easy certitudes；the tempta-tions of exercising unencrmbered political power in a one-party state；and above all ,the appeal of Bill Clinton,a charismatic,talented,but deeply flawed man who may have been hoth the best and worst thing that ever happened to Hillary Rodham.
With unparalleled depth,Brock profiles Hillary's early mentors；delves into the byzantine world of Arkansan politics；and describes in esplicit detail what Hillary has done to ensure Bill's metoric rise to the top American politics.Along the way,Hillary comes to terms with the straing in her marriage and undergoes multiple makeover for the sake of an unprecedented politi-cal partership.She plays an extensive role in staffing the Clinton White House and shaping its agenda ,but her vaunted health care initiative ends in spectacular collapse and much of the still-brew-ing Whitewater scandal is laid at her door.
Concluding that Hillary is neither the selfless and untarnished icon that her allies would portray nor the scheming Lady MacBeth of conservative demonology,Brock illuminates the character and action of one of America's most poorly under-stood and unfairly maligned public figures.
作者简介
DAVD BROCK'S hard-hitting journalism has cast him as“the BOb Woodward of the right”according to the Washington Post.He is a writer for the American Spectator and the bestselling author of The Real Anite Hill(Free Press,1993).He lives in Washington,D.C. |
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