Living history

• Main Author: Clinton, Hillary Rodham linton, Hillary Rodham (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Simon & Schuster 2003
• Subjects: Clinton, Hillary Rodham; Presidents' spouses > residents' spouses > Biograph > United States; Legislators > egislators > Biograph > United States; Women legislators > Biograph > omen legislators > United States
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• Item Description: Includes index
• Physical Description: xi, 846pages illustrations 24 cm
• ISBN: 0743262026 (pbk.); 9780743262026 (pbk.)

The most formidably intelligent and high profile woman in American political life tells the story of her eight years as First Lady in an astonishingly candid book that covers both deeply personal and historically significant events. Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions of people around the world. Yet few beyond her close friends and family have ever heard her account of her extraordinary journey. She writes with candor, humor and passion about her upbringing in suburban, middle-class America in the 1950s and her transformation from Goldwater Girl to student activist to controversial First Lady. Living History is her revealing memoir of life through the White House years. It is also her chronicle of living history with Bill Clinton, a thirty-year adventure in love and politics that survives personal betrayal, relentless partisan investigations and constant public scrutiny. Hillary Rodham Clinton came of age during a time of tumultuous social and political change in America. Like many women of her generation, she grew up with choices and opportunities unknown to her mother or grandmother. She charted her own course through unexplored terrain -- responding to the changing times and her own internal compass -- and became an emblem for some and a lightning rod for others. Wife, mother, lawyer, advocate and international icon, she has lived through America's great political wars, from Watergate to Whitewater.