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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465915003321

Titolo

42 : inside the Presidency of Bill Clinton / / edited by Michael Nelson, Barbara A. Perry, and Russell L. Riley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, New York ; ; London, England : , : Cornell University Press, , 2016

℗2016

ISBN

1-5017-0620-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (345 p.)

Collana

Miller Center of Public Affairs Books

Disciplina

973.929092

Soggetti

POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Executive Branch

Electronic books.

United States Politics and government 1993-2001 Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword / Kamarck, Elaine -- Preface / Nelson, Michael / Perry, Barbara A. / Riley, Russell L. -- Bill Clinton's Road to the White House -- Introduction: History and Bill Clinton / Riley, Russell L. -- Part I. Politics -- 1. Redividing Government: National Elections in the Clinton Years and Beyond / Nelson, Michael -- 2. Triangulation: Position and Leadership in Clinton's Domestic Policy / Nesmith, Bruce F. / Quirk, Paul J. -- Part II. Domestic and Economic Policy -- 3. Compromise and Confrontation: Clinton's Evolving Relationship with Congress / Theriault, Sean M. / Hickey, Patrick T. / Moeller, Megan -- 4. Root Canal Politics: Economic Policy Making in the New Administration / Doherty, Brendan J. -- 5. The Broken Places: The Clinton Impeachment and American Politics / Rudalevige, Andrew -- 6. Clinton and Welfare Reform: An Oral History / Nelson, Michael -- 7. Hillary Rodham Clinton: Recasting the Role of First Lady / Perry, Barbara A. -- Part III. Foreign Policy -- 8. The Reluctant Grand Strategist at War: Diplomacy and Force in Bosnia and Kosovo / Bakich, Spencer D. -- 9. Peacemaker's Progress: Bill Clinton, Northern Ireland, and the Middle East / Strong, Robert A. -- Conclusion: Clinton's Legacy for Politics and Government / Milkis, Sidney M. -- Appendix 1: Interviewees for the William J. Clinton Presidential History Project -- Appendix 2:



Interviewers for the William J. Clinton Presidential History Project -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book uses hundreds of hours of newly opened interviews and other sources to illuminate the life and times of the nation's forty-second president, Bill Clinton. Combining the authoritative perspective of these inside accounts with the analytic powers of some of America's most distinguished presidential scholars, the essays assembled here offer a major advance in our collective understanding of the Clinton White House. Included are path-breaking chapters on the major domestic and foreign policy initiatives of the Clinton years, as well as objective discussions of political success and failure. 42 is the first book to make extensive use of previously closed interviews collected for the Clinton Presidential History Project, conducted by the Presidential Oral History Program of the University of Virginia's Miller Center. These interviews, recorded by teams of scholars working under a veil of strict confidentiality, explored officials' memories of their service with President Clinton and their careers prior to joining the administration. Interviewees also offered political and leadership lessons they had gleaned as eyewitnesses to and shapers of history. Their spoken recollections provide invaluable detail about the inner history of the presidency in an age when personal diaries and discursive letters are seldom written.