The Clinton tapes wrestling history with the president /
While still a sitting president, Bill Clinton initiated a project to preserve for historians an unfiltered record of presidential experience. Clinton talks intimately over seven years to his long-time friend, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, about what it's like to be president, highlighting...
| Main Author: | Branch, Taylor. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, N.Y. :
Simon & Schuster,
2009.
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| Physical Description: |
x, 707 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, photographs ; 25 cm. |
| Edition: | 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Twin recorders
- Reunion
- Truman balcony
- Culture clashes: from Bosnia to a haircut
- Passages: NAFTA, China, Whitewater
- Mother's death and the special prosecutor
- Clinton and the press
- Missiles in Baghdad
- Supreme Court choices
- Foreign travels
- Hillary's dream
- Haiti: the brink of war
- Yeltsin and the Gingrich revolution
- Tirades: "I really let them have it"
- Bailout, bombs, and recovery
- Oklahoma City
- Girding for showdown
- Pope John Paul II: "Tell me how you see the world"
- Murder of Rabin
- Triumph and fury: "You live to have only a few days like that"
- Family feuds: from Greenspan to Saddam Hussein
- Primary season
- Terrorism, welfare reform, and the Chicago convention
- Reelection 1996
- Bittersweet renewal
- Whitewater tapes: on the high wire
- "I think they're pretty good rumors"
- Jones case
- Chinese land mines
- Buddy and Socks
- Lewinsky
- Impeached
- Trial
- Kosovo, Columbine, and Kashimir
- To the Millennium: peacemakers and treason
- On to New Hampshire
- Camp David
- Jerusalem and the three Ps
- Deadlock 2000: "This election is tight as a tick"
- Farewell.