Living History
Michael Thompson (Front jacket photograph) New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xi, [3], 562 pages. Illustrations. Index. DJ is price clipped. Author's Note. Illustrations. Acknowledgments. Key to Photographs. Index. Signed by the author on the title page. Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions of people around the world. Yet few beyond her close friends and family have ever heard her account of her extraordinary journey. She writes with candor, humor and passion about her upbringing in suburban, middle-class America in the 1950s and her transformation into student activist to controversial First Lady. Living History is her revealing memoir of life through the White House years. It is also her chronicle of a thirty-year adventure in love and politics that survives betrayal, partisan investigations and public scrutiny. She charted her own course through unexplored terrain -- responding to the changing times and her own internal compass -- and became an emblem for some and a lightning rod for others. She has lived through America's political wars, from Watergate to Whitewater. The only First Lady to play a major role in shaping domestic legislation, Hillary Rodham Clinton traveled tirelessly around the country to champion health care, expand economic and educational opportunity and promote the needs of children and families, and she crisscrossed the globe on behalf of women's rights, human rights and democracy. Intimate, powerful and inspiring, Living History captures the essence of one of the most remarkable women of our time and the process by which she came to define herself and find her own voice -- as a woman and as a formidable figure in American politics. Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26, 1947) is an American politician, diplomat, and former lawyer who served as the 67th United States Secretary of State for President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, as a United States senator representing New York from 2001 to 2009, and as First Lady of the United States as the wife of President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the party's nominee for president in the 2016 presidential election, becoming the first woman to win a presidential nomination by a major U.S. political party; Clinton lost the Electoral College vote, thereby losing the election to Donald Trump. She earned a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School in 1973. After serving as a congressional legal counsel, she moved to Arkansas and married future president Bill Clinton in 1975. In 1977, Clinton co-founded Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families. She was appointed the first female chair of the Legal Services Corporation in 1978 and became the first female partner at Little Rock's Rose Law Firm the following year. The National Law Journal twice listed her as one of the hundred most influential lawyers in America. Clinton was the first lady of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and again from 1983 to 1992. In 1994, her major initiative—the Clinton health care plan—failed to gain approval from Congress. In 1997 and 1999, Clinton played a leading role in advocating the creation of the State Children's Health Insurance Program, the Adoption and Safe Families Act, and the Foster Care Independence Act. Clinton advocated for gender equality at the 1995 UN conference on women. In 2000, Clinton was elected as the first female senator from New York and became the first First lady to simultaneously hold elected office, and then the first former First lady to serve in the Senate. She was re-elected in 2006 and chaired the Senate Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee from 2003 to 2007. During her Senate tenure, Clinton opposed the surge of U.S. troops in 2007. Clinton was U.S. Secretary of State in the first term of the Obama administration from 2009 to 2013. During her tenure, Clinton established the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review. Clinton helped to organize a diplomatic isolation and a regime of international sanctions against Iran in an effort to force it to curtail its nuclear program; this effort eventually led to the multinational JCPOA nuclear agreement in 2015. Clinton made a second presidential run in 2016, winning the Democratic nomination, and ran in the general election with Virginia senator Tim Kaine as her running mate. Clinton lost the presidential election to Republican opponent Donald Trump in the Electoral College. Following her loss, she wrote her third memoir, What Happened. Condition: Very good / Very good.
Keywords: Chelsea Clinton, Bill Clinton, Democratic Party, Feminism, Vince Foster, Health Care Reform, Virginia Kelley, Jim McDougal, Susan McDougal, Secret Service, Rose Law, Whitewater Investigation, Kenneth Starr, Webster Hubbell, Terrorism, Maggie Williams
ISBN: 0743222245
[Book #85172]
Price: $750.00