Living
History
by Hillary Clinton
Hardcover: 576 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster; (June 9, 2003)
ISBN: 0743222245 |
Hell
to Pay : The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton
by Barbara Olson
Hell to Pay is yet another book on Hillary Rodham Clinton, this time
from a conservative lawyer who served as the Republican chief counsel for
the congressional committee investigating the Clintons' involvement in
"Travelgate" and "Filegate." Barbara Olson traces the now familiar biographies
of the president and first lady, contending that Mrs. Clinton is someone
with dangerously liberal, even radical, political beliefs who "now seeks
to foment revolutionary changes from the uniform of a pink suit." (Olson
plays the theme heavily: each chapter of Hell to Pay begins with quotes
from Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, which influenced the young Hillary
Rodham.)
There are some interesting new tidbits scattered throughout the book,
like the fact that after law school Hillary Rodham tried to become a Marine
Corps officer but was turned down; or that she told her high school paper
her ambition after high school was "to marry a senator and settle down
in Georgetown." Olson, attempting to dissect the mystery of the Clinton
partnership, writes, "Most self-respecting women would have left" after
Clinton's repeated infidelities. "Hillary chose to stay. She behaves as
both a desperate lover, and like a frantic campaign manager protecting
a flawed candidate.... Hillary, it seems, long ago accepted Bill Clinton
as someone who could advance her goals, as a necessary complement to her
intellectual cold-blooded pursuit of power." As the Clinton presidency
draws to a close, that pursuit has taken her beyond the White House toward
a bid for her own U.S. Senate seat. Olson predicts the Senate won't be
enough, just the next step toward becoming the first woman president: "Hillary
Clinton seeks nothing less than an office that will give her a platform
from which to exercise real power and real world leadership." While Olson
admits that "Bill Clinton has always excited the greatest passion not among
his supporters, but among his detractors," the same could certainly be
said of his wife--whose supporters will probably consider Hell to Pay a
rehash of a too-familiar story, but whose detractors will no doubt savor
every page. --Linda Killian - Amazon.com
Hardcover - 344 pages 1 edition (November 1999)
Regnery Pub; ISBN: 0895262746
Hell
to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton
by Barbara Olson
Paperback: 344 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.00 x
9.03 x 6.02
Publisher: Regnery Publishing; Revised and Updated edition
(November 2001)
ISBN: 0895261979
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Hillary's
Choice
by Gail Sheehy
Vanity Fair writer Gail Sheehy's engrossing biography of Hillary Clinton
is a refreshing departure from the political hit jobs that have appeared
elsewhere in print. That's not to say Hillary's Choice is a pro-Clinton
book--Hillary herself would probably bristle at reading it, and her husband
("The story of the Clinton presidency has always been the story of the
Clinton marriage," writes Sheehy) comes off as a bright but demented cad.
Yet Hillary's Choice is broadly sympathetic and often nonjudgmental at
crucial moments. Sheehy writes very little about public policy, but includes
plenty of pop psychologizing. She suggests that the president is a sex
addict afflicted by what "a highly qualified mental health professional
who works too close to the White House to be identified" calls "dissociative
identities"--what used to be known as "multiple personalities ... a sum
of various identities that have been split off at some time in the past."
And the president gets away with so much in his personal life because Hillary
has become his unwitting enabler: "Every addict or alcoholic needs one.
The enabler is usually an intimate of the addicted person who allows him
to persist in self-destructive behavior by making excuses or helping him
avoid the consequences of his actions." That describes Sheehy's Hillary
perfectly: a woman apparently ignorant of her husband's several flings
in the White House before Monica Lewinsky came along, and then willfully
deceived by the president's lies until just hours before his momentous
grand-jury testimony. Theirs is a mother-son relationship in which true
love must negotiate its way through astonishingly difficult periods. That's
not a formula for how marriage ought to work, but it has nevertheless helped
this ultimate power couple achieve enormous success. Hillary's Choice is
full of on-the-record and background interviews, all assembled in an absorbing
narrative. Writes Sheehy: "The saga of Bill and Hillary, with its echoes
of Eleanor and Franklin, or Tracy and Hepburn with undertones of Bonnie
and Clyde, is animated by melodrama, high passion, narrow escapes, and
knock-down-drag-outs." And it comes alive in this biography of the most
enigmatic woman of our time. --John J. Miller - Amazon.com
Paperback: 416 pages
Ballantine Books (Trd Pap); ISBN: 0345436563; (August
15, 2000)
Hillary's
Turn: Inside Her Improbable, Victorious Senate Campaign
by Michael Tomasky
Hardcover - 320 pages 1st edition (February 15, 2001)
Free Press; ISBN: 0684873028
An
Invitation To the White House
by Hillary Rodham Clinton, et al
(Hardcover - November 2000)
The
Case Against Hillary Clinton
by Peggy Noonan
(Hardcover - April 2000)
She
Took A Village
by Alan Gottlieb
Paperback: 178 pages
Merril Press; ISBN: 0936783192; (May 1, 1998)
It
Takes a Village and Other Lessons Children Teach Us
by Hillary Rodham Clinton
(Audio Cassette - June 1999)
The
Girls in the Van: Covering Hillary
by Beth J. Harpaz
(Hardcover - October 2001)
The
First Partner Hillary Rodham Clinton: A Biography
by Joyce Milton
(Paperback - May 2000)
Witness
to Genocide: The Children of Rwanda: Drawings by Child Survivors of the
Rwandan Genocide of 1994
by Richard A. Salem (Editor), Hillary Rodham Clinton
(Paperback)
Hillary
Rodham Clinton: A First Lady for Our Time
by Donnie Radcliffe
(Hardcover - September 1993)
The
Clintons of Arkansas: An Introduction by Those Who Know Them Best
by Ernest Dumas (Editor)
(Paperback - April 1993)
Hillary
Clinton: The Inside Story
by Judith Warner
(Mass Market Paperback - August 1999)
The
Rhetoric of First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton: Crisis Management Discourse
(Praeger Series in Political Communication)
by Colleen Elizabeth Kelley
(Hardcover)
The
Hillary Factor: The Story of America's First Lady
by Rex Nelson, Philip Martin
(Paperback - November 1993)
The
First Lady: A Comprehensive View of Hillary Rodham Clinton
by Peter Flaherty, et al
(Paperback - October 1996)
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