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The American Presidents Series
BILL CLINTON
Tomasky looks at the 1990s through the prism of Clinton's presidency to provide a new perspective on what happened, what it all meant, and what aspects continue to define American politics to this day.
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 who never forgot his hardscrabble upbringing. He was one of the most talented speakers and politicians of his age, but he inspired enmity of such intensity that political 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, with 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 over Congress for the first time in two generations and a time when a land deal gone bad turned into a constitutional crisis, as details of a sitting president's sexual activities became public knowledge and talk-show fodder.
Michael Tomasky is a special correspondent for The Daily Beast and the editor in chief of Democracy.
He is also a contributing editor for The American Prospect and a regular contributor to The New York
Review of Books. He was previously a columnist for New York magazine, executive editor of The
American Prospect, and the founding editor of Guardian America. He is the author of Left for Dead: The
Life, Death, and Possible Resurrection of Progressive Politics in America and Hillary's Turn: Inside Her Improbable, Victorious Senate Campaign. He lives outside Washington, D.C.
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, with 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 over Congress for the first time in two generations and a time when a land deal gone bad turned into a constitutional crisis, as details of a sitting president's sexual activities became public knowledge and talk-show fodder.
Michael Tomasky is a special correspondent for The Daily Beast and the editor in chief of Democracy.
He is also a contributing editor for The American Prospect and a regular contributor to The New York
Review of Books. He was previously a columnist for New York magazine, executive editor of The
American Prospect, and the founding editor of Guardian America. He is the author of Left for Dead: The
Life, Death, and Possible Resurrection of Progressive Politics in America and Hillary's Turn: Inside Her Improbable, Victorious Senate Campaign. He lives outside Washington, D.C.
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Published 2017-01-01 by Henry Holt |