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Publisher: Premium Press America
ISBN: 9780963773333
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Author: Ernest Dumas
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 9781610751018
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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This collection of anecdotal stories by the people who know them best introduces Bill and Hillary to the nation as only friends can. The essays collectively place the Clintons into proper social, historical, and geographical context for anyone who wants to know the former First Family on a more personal level.

Author: Brenda Blagg
Publisher: Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
ISBN: 9781935106555
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Political Magic is the story of how Bill Clinton's lifelong friends--the Arkansas Travelers--helped the governor of a small state become president of the United States. This engaging and amusing story tells how the Travelers personalized politics and made a difference in Bill Clinton's election and also went to work for Hillary Clinton in her 2008 bid for president.

Author: Meredith L. Oakley
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
ISBN: 9780895264930
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 628

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Before Bill Clinton became president, no reporter in America knew him better than Little Rock reporter Meredith Oakley. Time and again she watched him make campaign promises, break them, then lie to save face. Now, in this biography based on 12 years of personal files, Oakley presents the first factual, critical answer to the question, "What makes Bill Clinton tick?"

Author: Jim McDougal
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
ISBN: 1627797548
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369

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Until his recent death in federal prison, Jim McDougal was the irrepressible ghost of the Clintons' Arkansas past. As Bill Clinton's political and business mentor, McDougal - with his knowledge of embarrassing real estate and banking deals, bribes, and obstructions of justice - has long haunted the White House. Jim McDougal's vivid self-portrait, completed only days before his death and coauthored by veteran journalist Curtis Wilkie, takes on the rich particularity of character and plot to reveal the hidden intersections of politics and special interests in Arkansas and the betrayals that followed. It is the story of how ambitious men and women climbed out of rural obscurity and "how friendships break down and lives are ruined."

Author: Daryl A Carter
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 155728699X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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“This book is a fascinating analysis of race and class in the age of President Bill Clinton. It provides much-needed clarity in regards to the myth of the ‘First Black President.’ It contributes much to our understanding of the history that informs our present moment!” —Cornel West As President Barack Obama was sworn into office on January 20, 2009, the United States was abuzz with talk of the first African American president. At this historic moment, one man standing on the inaugural platform, seemingly a relic of the past, had actually been called by the moniker the “first black president” for years. President William Jefferson Clinton had long enjoyed the support of African Americans during his political career, but the man from Hope also had a complex and tenuous relationship with this faction of his political base. Clinton stood at the nexus of intense political battles between conservatives’ demands for a return to the past and African Americans’ demands for change and fuller equality. He also struggled with the class dynamics dividing the American electorate, especially African Americans. Those with financial means seized newfound opportunities to go to college, enter the professions, pursue entrepreneurial ambitions, and engage in mainstream politics, while those without financial means were essentially left behind. The former became key to Clinton’s political success as he skillfully negotiated the African American class structure while at the same time maintaining the support of white Americans. The results were tremendously positive for some African Americans. For others, the Clinton presidency was devastating. Brother Bill examines President Clinton’s political relationship with African Americans and illuminates the nuances of race and class at the end of the twentieth century, an era of technological, political, and social upheaval.

Author: David Maraniss
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439128359
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 975

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Who exactly is Bill Clinton, and why was he, of all the brilliant and ambitious men in his generation, the first in his class to reach the White House? Drawing on hundreds of letters, documents, and interviews, David Maraniss explores the evolution of the personality of our forty-second president from his youth in Arkansas to his 1991 announcement that he would run for the nation's highest office. In this richly textured and balanced biography, Maraniss reveals a complex man full of great flaws and great talents. First in His Class is the definitive book on Bill Clinton.

Author: Charles Flynn Allen
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Carol Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Reveals the character and accomplishments of Clinton, based on four years of research and interviews.

Author: Mara Leveritt
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781515049852
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 494

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Two Arkansas teenagers are run over by a train. The state medical examiner rules they smoked themselves into "a marijuana-induced stupor" before lying down, side by side on the tracks. He rules the deaths accidental. Case closed. Except that when the parents of one get the bodies exhumed, new autopsies point to murder. That launches the mom of one of the boys on a journey that will lead her into a dark world of drugs and political corruption. In 2001, after this book's release, a U.S. court of appeals wrote: "The record in this case reads like a John Grisham novel." Shockingly, this story is true.

Author: Gene L. Martin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780936389318
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Recounts the life and political career of Bill Clinton.