42 - 9780801456893

42Inside the Presidency of Bill Clinton\nAuthor(s): Michael Nelson, Barbara A. Perry, Russell L. Riley\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9780801456893, 978-0801456893\nSynopsis\nThis book uses hundreds of hours of newly opened interviews and other sources to illuminate the life and times of the nation's forty-second president, Bill Clinton. Combining the authoritative perspective of these inside accounts with the analytic powers of some of America's most distinguished presidential scholars, the essays assembled here offer a major advance in our collective understanding of the Clinton White House. Included are path-breaking chapters on the major domestic and foreign policy initiatives of the Clinton years, as well as objective discussions of political success and failure. \n\n 42 is the first book to make extensive use of previously closed interviews collected for the Clinton Presidential History Project.