9781627796767-1627796762-Bill Clinton: The American Presidents Series: The 42nd President, 1993-2001

Bill Clinton: The American Presidents Series: The 42nd President, 1993-2001

ISBN-13: 9781627796767
ISBN-10: 1627796762
Edition: First Edition
Author: Michael Tomasky, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Sean Wilentz
Publication date: 2017
Publisher: Times Books
Format: Hardcover 208 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781627796767
ISBN-10: 1627796762
Edition: First Edition
Author: Michael Tomasky, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Sean Wilentz
Publication date: 2017
Publisher: Times Books
Format: Hardcover 208 pages

Summary

Bill Clinton: The American Presidents Series: The 42nd President, 1993-2001 (ISBN-13: 9781627796767 and ISBN-10: 1627796762), written by authors Michael Tomasky, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Sean Wilentz, was published by Times Books in 2017. With an overall rating of 3.6 stars, it's a notable title among other United States (Historical, State & Local, United States History) books. You can easily purchase or rent Bill Clinton: The American Presidents Series: The 42nd President, 1993-2001 (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used United States books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.58.

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The president of larger-than-life ambitions and appetites whose term defined America at the close of the twentieth century

Bill Clinton: a president of contradictions. He was a Rhodes Scholar and a Yale Law School graduate, but he was also a fatherless child from rural Arkansas. He was one of the most talented politicians of his age, but he inspired enmity of such intensity that his opponents would stop at nothing to destroy him. He was the first Democrat since Franklin Roosevelt to win two successive presidential elections, but he was also the first president since Andrew Johnson to be impeached.

In this incisive biography of America’s forty-second president, Michael Tomasky examines Clinton’s eight years in office, a time often described as one of peace and prosperity, but in reality a time of social and political upheaval, as the culture wars grew ever more intense amid the rise of the Internet (and with it, online journalism and blogging); military actions in Somalia, Iraq, Bosnia, and Kosovo; standoffs at Waco and Ruby Ridge; domestic terrorism in Oklahoma City; and the rise of al-Qaeda. It was a time when Republicans took control of Congress and a land deal gone bad turned into a constitutional crisis, as lurid details of a sitting president’s sexual activities became the focus of public debate.

Tomasky’s clear-eyed assessment of Clinton’s presidency offers a new perspective on what happened, what it all meant, and what aspects continue to define American politics to this day. In many ways, we are still living in the Age of Clinton.

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