Research Catalog

Title

Hillary's choice / Gail Sheehy.

Author

Sheehy, Gail

Publication

New York : Random House, c1999.

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Details

Description

xv, 389 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

• "Why does she stay with him? Where does she go from here? The author who revealed a generation's Passages now answers all the questions about the most talked-about First Lady in American history. In Hillary's Choice, Hillary Clinton is rendered fully human for the first time. Here is the life of a woman that is also the story of a marriage--and the drama of a presidency. From her childhood with a demanding father and frustrated mother to her life as a professional wife determined to elect her husband president ... from the sexual betrayals that nearly broke her to the national scandal that remade her ... this is the epic journey of a modern American woman, a saga that begins in passivity, moves through self-punishment, and ends in power. Who was the one "other woman" who posed a serious threat to their marriage? What was the real reason for the health care failure? How did Hillary escape the snare of Kenneth Starr? How has she managed, through it all, to be a good mother? No matter what her future, the mysteries about Hillary Clinton's past have been fully resolved by Hillary's Choice, a stunning achievement from a master chronicler of our times."--Publisher's website.
• A portrait of Hillary Rodham Clinton focuses on her marriage to the president, following their relationship from their first meeting through the impeachment battle and analyzing the private dynamic of a political and public partnership.

Subject

• Clinton, Hillary Rodham
• Clinton, Hillary Rodham > Marriage
• Clinton, Bill, 1946-
• Presidents' spouses > United States > Biography

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Into the Flames. Cleaning Out Closets -- The Dress Rehearsal -- The Need to Know and the Fear of Knowing -- Let the War Begin -- The Family That Denies Together -- Sleeping Through the Revolution. Keeping the Bubble in the Center -- Finding Ways to Be Noticed -- Better Dead than Red in Park Ridge -- A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall -- Waking Up -- The Budding Politician -- "I Wonder Who Is Me?". What Is Happiness? -- Fighting the Inner Dictator -- The Wonk Group -- Choosing an Identity -- "My February Depression" -- The "Radicalization" of Hillary Rodham -- The Killing of the King -- A Ring by Spring? -- First Love. The Revolution Is Us! -- Getting Serious -- Weekends in the Country -- Prude Meets Passion. Movement Girl -- Losing Control -- Running with Bill -- Moving In--With Doubts -- Southern Exposure -- A Couple of Favors -- Crazy Dreams? -- The Hot Springs Kid. Will-o'-the-Wisp -- Constructing an Airtight Box -- The Invention of Bill Clinton -- First Praise -- Everything's Slick --^
• Hillary's Leap of Faith -- The College Girlfriend -- War Room -- Arkansas Diamonds and Denim -- How Hillary Won Bill and Bill Won Hillary -- The Hill Woman -- Superwoman -- Chelsea Morning -- Taking Care of "Baby" -- The Rodham Regency in Arkansas. Teaching Bill to Fight Back -- A Calculated Metamorphosis -- Something in Common -- Retaliation in the Bushes -- Hillary Goes Arkansas -- Runnin' and Gunnin' -- Hillary's Blind Spot -- Money Business. Calling E.F. Hutton -- The Odd Couple -- A Thorn at the Rose -- Hillary's Armor -- King of the Mountain -- Betsey's Black Book -- Divorce or Rededication?. A Woman Different from All the Others -- Hillary's Addiction -- The Re-seduction of Bill Clinton -- Back in the Game -- Hillary's Brilliant Choice -- Two for the Price of One. The Enablers -- Insulating Herself from Hurt -- Just My Bill -- Fighting Gennifer with Jennifer -- The Lockdown -- Running Mates -- The Real Honeymoon -- Victory -- Things Fall Apart. The Ascendance --^
• The First Six Hundred Days -- With Friends Like These ... -- Losing the Last Protector -- Down Hill. Hard Choices -- God, Why Me? -- Bottom of the Hill -- Tuning In to Eleanor. Saving Bill--Again -- The Eleanor Channel -- Skunk at the Garden Party -- Going Flat Out -- First Woman of the World. "That Lovely Memo" -- Keeping the Closet Locked -- All Alone at the Top -- Gliding Across Country -- Open Necks -- Ignoring Middle Age -- Everything There Is to Know. Friendly Flings -- Splitting -- Hillary's War -- The Summer of Her Discontent -- Chelsea Evening -- How Could He? -- Holiday from Hell -- The Unrepentant -- The Deep Freeze -- Humiliation Abroad -- Now Is the Time for Turning -- The Rebirth of Hillary Rodham. Opening Up -- Why Not New York? -- Let Him Wait -- Negative Space -- The Race for Redemption -- Out of the Gate -- Hillary's Hidden Hand in Kosovo -- The Couple Crossover -- Queen Hillary Hits the Streets -- The Road Not Yet Traveled.

ISBN

0375503447 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^99052279^

OCLC

• 42667937
• SCSB-13360515

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library