LEADER 07961nam 2200805 450 001 9910786141503321 005 20221227153214.0 010 $a1-299-46378-9 010 $a0-300-16888-8 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300168884 035 $a(CKB)2670000000335049 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH24485967 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000860103 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11559948 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000860103 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10883933 035 $a(PQKB)11432754 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3421191 035 $a(DE-B1597)485672 035 $a(OCoLC)1024025638 035 $a(OCoLC)1029818217 035 $a(OCoLC)1032684365 035 $a(OCoLC)1037967379 035 $a(OCoLC)1041976810 035 $a(OCoLC)1046602859 035 $a(OCoLC)1047005016 035 $a(OCoLC)1049619405 035 $a(OCoLC)1054878420 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300168884 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3421191 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10687943 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL477628 035 $a(OCoLC)923603173 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7024232 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7024232 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000335049 100 $a20221227d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA complicated man $ethe life of Bill Clinton as told by those who know him /$fMichael Takiff 210 1$aNew Haven ;$aLondon :$cYale University Press,$d[2010] 210 4$dİ2010 215 $a1 online resource (448 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-300-12130-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tA Complicated Man --$tFront matter --$tContents --$tAuthor's Note --$tIntroduction: An Endless Argument --$tPart I. Local Hero, 1946-1987 --$t1. Small Town Boy: Hope, Arkansas --$t2. A Big City (pop. 29,307): Hot Springs --$t3. Positive, Positive, Positive, Positive: Georgetown --$t4. Man of the World: Oxford and Yale --$t5. On the Move: An Arkansas Politician --$t6. Too Much, Too Soon, Too Bad: Rookie Governor --$t7. Out of the Woodshed: Exile and Return --$t8. Busy, Busy, Busy: Governor Again --$t9. Comfort Level: Bill and Black Arkansas --$t10. Not Bad, But . . .: Potential Unfulfilled --$tPart II. Rising Star, 1987-1992 --$t11. National Democrat: Moving Toward the White House --$t12. Going for It: Candidate --$t13. Near-Death Experience: New Hampshire, 1992 --$t14. All Roads Lead to Madison Square Garden: Nominee --$t15. A Bubba, Not a Bozo: President-Elect --$tPart III. Stumble, 1993-1994 --$t16. Not an Admiral: Transition --$t17. Bedlam at Birth: Getting Started --$t18. Bill Asks, Colin Tells: The President, the Gays, the Military --$t19. New Kid in Town: Permanent Washington Greets the Clintons --$t20. Debt on Arrival: Recharting an Economic Course --$t21. A Casino for Jesus: The Budget Bill --$t22. The Yanks Are Coming: Navigating a Post-Cold War World --$t23. Trade War: Passing NAFTA --$t24. Heroic Measures: The Fight to Reform Health Care --$t25. Stand-Up Guys: Bill, Boris, Jiang, Fidel --$t26. Action, Inaction: Somalia and Rwanda --$t27. No Way to Run a Railroad: Fixing a Dysfunctional White House --$t28. From Humiliation to Celebration: Haiti --$t29. Picturing Peace: The Oslo Signing --$t30. Something Is Rotten in the State of Arkansas: Whitewater, the Scandal Begins --$t31. Golfing with Willie Mays: Bill Among Friends --$t32. Rebuke: The 1994 Midterm Election --$tPart IV. Recovery, 1995-1996 --$t33. Picking up the Pieces: The Aftermath --$t34. Relevant: Newt versus Clinton --$t35. Pastor to the Nation: Oklahoma City --$t36. End of an Era: The Road Back --$t37. This Town Ain't Big Enough: Shutdown Showdown --$t38. Shalom, Chaver: The Death of Yitzhak Rabin --$t39. I'll Show You Mine If . . .: The Big Mistake --$t40. A Commander in Chief (Finally) Commands: Bosnia, Solved --$t41. Ballot-Box Missionary: Irish Troubles, Irish Votes --$t42. A Deal. With the Devil? Ending Welfare as We Know It --$t43. Slippery or Steadfast? Shapeshifter --$t44. Piece of Cake: Reelection --$tPart V. Humiliation: 1997-2000 --$t45. Reckless, Stupid, Human: Wasting a Precious Gift --$t46. Big Bucks Bedroom: Scandal of the Year, 1997 --$t47. Nailed! Linda and Lucianne --$t48. Pants on Fire: The Jones Deposition --$t49. The Bombshell Wears a Beret: Enter Monica --$t50. Scandal? What Scandal? Compartmentalization --$t51. The Puritan and the Pol: Starr versus Clinton --$t52. Respite: A Tour of Africa --$t53. Today's Word Is Is: The Grand Jury --$t54. Speech Defect: An Unapologetic Apology --$t55. Sine Qua Non: Ulster's Peacemaker --$t56. Softcore: The Starr Report --$t57. For Mature Audiences Only: A Committee, a TV Show --$t58. DeLayed Reaction: The Midterms and the Majority Whip --$t59. Impeach the Rapist! Fifty Boxes, Four Articles --$t60. Amazing: A Speech in Gaza --$t61. Bad Guys: Going After Bin Laden and Saddam --$t62. The Hypocrisy Police: Bob Livingston, Porn Star --$t63. It's Official: Impeached --$t64. It's About Sex: The Trial --$t65. Seventy-Eight Days: Kosovo --$t66. Down to the Wire: Camp David and the Clinton Ideas --$t67. In Denial: Bill Clinton and the Election of 2000 --$tPart VI. Citizen Clinton, 2001 --$t68. Parting Shots: Leaving the White House --$t69. Convening Power: The Clinton Foundation --$t70. Chasing a Buck: Making Multimillions Multinationally --$t71. Bill in a China Shop: Hillary for President, 2008 --$t72. Unintended Consequences: Clinton-Era Deregulation and the Financial Crisis of 2008-2009 --$t73. Envoy: A Visit to North Korea --$t74. And Now? The Future of Bill Clinton --$tEpilogue: Closing Argument --$tSpeakers in A Complicated Man --$tNotes --$tAcknowledgments --$tPhoto Credits --$tIndex 330 $aThough Bill Clinton has been out of office since 2001, public fascination with him continues unabated. Many books about Clinton have been published in recent years, but shockingly, no single-volume biography covers the full scope of Clinton's life from the cradle to the present day, not even Clinton's own account, My Life. More troubling still, books on Clinton have tended to be highly polarized, casting the former president in an overly positive or negative light. In this, the first complete oral history of Clinton's life, historian Michael Takiff presents the first truly balanced book on one of our nation's most controversial and fascinating presidents. Through more than 150 chronologically arranged interviews with key figures including Bob Dole, James Carville, and Tom Brokaw, among many others, A Complicated Man goes far beyond the well-worn party-line territory to capture the larger-than-life essence of Clinton the man. With the tremendous attention given to the Lewinsky scandal, it is easy to overlook the president's humble upbringing, as well as his many achievements at home and abroad: the longest economic boom in American history, a balanced budget, successful intervention in the Balkans, and a series of landmark, if controversial, free-trade agreements. 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