The Clinton Tapes

The Clinton Tapes
Author: Taylor Branch
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 730
Release: 2009-09-29
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1416543333

Former President Bill Clinton speaks intimately over seven years to his long-time friend, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, about what it's like to be president. Providing illuminating commentaries on major issues, these conversations depict Clinton as a principled man with a restless intellect. b&w photographs.

The Politics Presidents Make

The Politics Presidents Make
Author: Stephen Skowronek
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 592
Release: 1997-03-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780674689374

This study aims to demonstrate that presidents are persistent agents of change, continually disrupting and transforming the political landscape. The politics of the "third way" is also discussed in relation to Bill Clinton's political strategies.

First In His Class

First In His Class
Author: David Maraniss
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 975
Release: 2008-06-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1439128359

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.