Bill Clinton
Author | : Nigel Hamilton |
Publisher | : Ballantine Books |
Total Pages | : 818 |
Release | : 2003 |
ISBN-10 | : 0812970543 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780812970548 |
Rating | : 4/5 (548 Downloads) |
Download or read book Bill Clinton written by Nigel Hamilton and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fabled success of the scholarship boy would be marred by the decisions he came to make regarding Vietnam and military service-choices that haunt him to this day. We watch with a mixture of alarm, fascination, and awe as Bill Clinton does so much that is right-and so much that is wrong. He sets his cap for the star student at Yale, young Hillary Rodham, seducing her with his dreams of a better America and an aw-shucks grin. Wherever he goes, he charms and disarms-young and old, men and women...and more women. He becomes a law professor straight out of college; he contests a congressional election in his twenties-and almost wins it. He becomes attorney general of his state and within two years is set to become the youngest-ever governor of Arkansas, at only thirty-two. Yet, always, there is a curse, a drive toward personal self-destruction-and with that the destruction of all those who are helping him on his legendary path. His affair with Gennifer Flowers strains his marriage and later nearly.