The Clinton tapes
Subtitle: wrestling history with the president
By: Taylor Branch
Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 707
ISBN-13: 9781416543336; 9781416594345
Subjects: Politics and government; Politik; Reporters and reporting; Presidents; Interviews; Biography; Political and social views
Description: While still a sitting president, Bill Clinton initiated a project to preserve for historians an unfiltered record of presidential experience. Clinton talks intimately over seven years to his long-time friend, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, about what it's like to be president, highlighting major events from Clinton's two terms, including war in Bosnia, the anti-deficit crusade, health reform failure, anti-terrorist strikes, peace initiatives, the 1996 re-election campaign, and Whitewater investigations culminating in his 1999 impeachment trial.--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Twin recorders; title: Reunion; title: Truman balcony; title: Culture clashes: from Bosnia to a haircut; title: Passages: NAFTA, China, Whitewater; title: Mother's death and the special prosecutor; title: Clinton and the press; title: Missiles in Baghdad; title: Supreme Court choices; title: Foreign travels; title: Hillary's dream; title: Haiti: the brink of war; title: Yeltsin and the Gingrich revolution; title: Tirades: "I really let them have it"; title: Bailout, bombs, and recovery; title: Oklahoma City; title: Girding for showdown; title: Pope John Paul II: "Tell me how you see the world"; title: Murder of Rabin; title: Triumph and fury: "You live to have only a few days like that"; title: Family feuds: from Greenspan to Saddam Hussein; title: Primary season; title: Terrorism, welfare reform, and the Chicago convention; title: Reelection 1996; title: Bittersweet renewal; title: Whitewater tapes: on the high wire; title: "I think they're pretty good rumors"; title: Jones case; title: Chinese land mines; title: Buddy and Socks; title: Lewinsky; title: Impeached; title: Trial; title: Kosovo, Columbine, and Kashimir; title: To the Millennium: peacemakers and treason; title: On to New Hampshire; title: Camp David; title: Jerusalem and the three Ps; title: Deadlock 2000: "This election is tight as a tick"; title: Farewell.