num_pages: 352
description: Working behind the scenes for the 18 months following Bill Clinton's election, conducting hundreds of interviews with administration insiders &amp; other key officials, &amp; gaining access to confidential internal memos, diaries &amp; meeting notes, Bob Woodward has discovered how the Clinton White House really works. Clinton's pledge for a new economic deal was the cornerstone of his 1992 campaign, &amp; fulfilling it has been his central ambition &amp; enterprise as president. By focusing on Clinton's efforts to pass a comprehensive economic recovery plan, Woodward takes us not only to the highest level meetings, the hard-fought debates &amp; the most difficult decisions but also to the very hear of this presidency--&amp; of this man. With its day-by-day, often minute-by-minute account, it's one of the most intimate portraits of a sitting president ever published. Clinton is shown as he debates, scolds, pleads, celebrates, &amp; rages in anger &amp; frustration. What emerges also is a group portrait of Clinton's innermost circle of advisers in action-- including his wife, Hillary; Vice President Al Gore; Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen &amp; the economic team; George Stephanopoulos &amp; David Gergen &amp; the White House staff; James Carville, Paul Begala, &amp; the other outside political strategists; Congressional leaders; &amp; Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan. Using his proven research method--returning time &amp; again to key sources &amp; relying on the paper trail of internal documentation--Woodward has assembled an extensive archive of the early Clinton presidency. This microscopic examination of the Clintons &amp; this administration, working under pressure on the nation's most important task, reveals the deep &amp; still unsettled conflicts among Clinton's advisers &amp; within himself. The questions about the federal deficit, health care, welfare reform, taxes, jobs, government spending, interest rates, the roles &amp; responsibilities of the middle class, the wealthy, &amp; the poor are of lasting importance. How they are being answered affects each person in the country.
language: English
title: The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House
titlecomplete: The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House
characters: Paul Begala, George Stephanopoulos, James Carville, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, Lloyd Bentsen, Alan Greenspan, David Gergen, Bill Clinton
genres: Biography, Politics, Political Science, Presidents, Nonfiction, American History, Economics, Us Presidents, Journalism, History
ratings_count: 1205
publisher: Simon & Schuster