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Title

Hillary's choice / Gail Sheehy.

Author

Sheehy, Gail

Publication

New York : Ballantine Books, c2000.

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Details

Description

xvi, 426 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

"Can the most controversial First Lady in American history remake herself again? The author of the American classic, Passages, illuminates the life changes of a public woman known the world over, but rendered here in her full humanity for the first time. From her childhood with a father who was impossible to please, to her life as the ambitious political wife who faced a public impossible to please, Hillary Clinton has persevered. Now, the first First Lady to have faced down a federal Grand Jury and survived her husband's Presidential impeachment is undergoing a "race for redemption" as she runs on her own for the United States Senate." "This epic journey of a modern American woman is also the story of a marriage and the drama of a presidency. Why did she choose to abandon her own promising career to help Bill Clinton to become President? Why did she stay with him through repeated betrayals and even through the Monica Lewinsky scandal? Why did she choose to run for the Senate seat of a state in which she has never lived?"--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

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

Genre/Form

Biographies

Note

• Originally published: New York : Random House, 1999.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-407) 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 Coupie 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 Girleriend -- 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.

ISBN

0345436563

LCCN

^^^00702925^

OCLC

• 44909629
• SCSB-12506580

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library