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- catalog abstract "Martin Walker's critical biography of Bill Clinton focuses on the president as a classical figure of America's post-World War II meritocracy, a poor boy from the segregated Old South who won scholarships to elite universities and became a lawyer fascinated by the process and the power of government. This president's background is as grittily American as the woeful tales that wail from jukeboxes in bars across the land. Bill Clinton is Bubba with brains, a redneck with a. Rhodes scholarship - America at her most raw - and most cultivated. Martin Walker presents a thorough and insightful account of the tumultuous Clinton administration from the president's foreign policy failures in Bosnia and Somalia to his successes in the Baltic and Northern Ireland, and to the ever-changing role of Hillary Rodham Clinton and her impact on her husband's presidency, beginning with the First Lady's health reform efforts to her involvement in Whitewater. and the travel office controversy. Martin Walker shows us the why, the how, and the future of the Clinton administration, which has been unpredictable, volatile, and continually fascinating.".
- catalog contributor b9924764.
- catalog coverage "United States Politics and government 1993-2001.".
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "Getting there. The making of a candidate ; The making of a political animal ; The making of a governor ; Governing and the making of a party animal ; The 1992 campaign : the primaries ; The 1992 campaign : the general election -- Being there. Transition ; The dreadful start ; Clinton and the media ; The three H problems : Hillary, health, and hubris ; Whitewater -- Staying there. The whole world waiting ; Trade wars ; Clinton's relaunch and the Republican recovery ; The coming of the new consensus.".
- catalog description "Martin Walker's critical biography of Bill Clinton focuses on the president as a classical figure of America's post-World War II meritocracy, a poor boy from the segregated Old South who won scholarships to elite universities and became a lawyer fascinated by the process and the power of government. This president's background is as grittily American as the woeful tales that wail from jukeboxes in bars across the land. Bill Clinton is Bubba with brains, a redneck with a.".
- catalog description "Rhodes scholarship - America at her most raw - and most cultivated. Martin Walker presents a thorough and insightful account of the tumultuous Clinton administration from the president's foreign policy failures in Bosnia and Somalia to his successes in the Baltic and Northern Ireland, and to the ever-changing role of Hillary Rodham Clinton and her impact on her husband's presidency, beginning with the First Lady's health reform efforts to her involvement in Whitewater.".
- catalog description "and the travel office controversy. Martin Walker shows us the why, the how, and the future of the Clinton administration, which has been unpredictable, volatile, and continually fascinating.".
- catalog extent "viii, 360 p., [16] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "President we deserve.".
- catalog identifier "051759871X".
- catalog isFormatOf "President we deserve.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Crown Publishers,".
- catalog relation "President we deserve.".
- catalog spatial "United States Politics and government 1993-2001.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "973.929/092 B 21".
- catalog subject "Clinton, Bill, 1946-".
- catalog subject "E886 .W35 1996".
- catalog subject "Presidents United States Biography.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Getting there. The making of a candidate ; The making of a political animal ; The making of a governor ; Governing and the making of a party animal ; The 1992 campaign : the primaries ; The 1992 campaign : the general election -- Being there. Transition ; The dreadful start ; Clinton and the media ; The three H problems : Hillary, health, and hubris ; Whitewater -- Staying there. The whole world waiting ; Trade wars ; Clinton's relaunch and the Republican recovery ; The coming of the new consensus.".
- catalog title "The president we deserve : Bill Clinton, his rise, falls, and comebacks / Martin Walker.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".