First Ladies & Families - Biography, Presidents of the United States - Biography, U.S. Politics & Government - 1992-2001

Hillary: Her True Story

Name: Hillary: Her True Story
Author: Norman King
ISBN: 9781559721875

by Norman King

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Here is the first complete, up-to-date story of Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has forever changed the role of the First lady. In the words of Maureen Dowd of the New York Times, "Hillary Clinton is the most openly empowered presidential wife in American history." For the first time, a highly educated, independent career woman stands at the President's side. Described as one of America's top legal minds, she is the first woman to enter the White House after having established a successful career in law. She has played key roles in all of her husband's victorious campaigns, initially as governor of Arkansas and later as President of the United States. The personification of the woman of the nineties, Hillary Rodham Clinton is her husband's peer and is able to deftly juggle career and family. Hillary: Her True Story describes the significant events, forces, and people who shaped her life from her childhood to the present and discusses the influence she will have in national decisions and policies. It is all here: growing up in a typical midwestern suburb as a Goldwater Republican; her years at Yale Law School, where she and her fellow student, Bill Clinton, joined together in their first contest arguing a case in moot court, which they lost; her ambivalence over her career and future as a lawyer; her love for Bill, which ultimately caused her to follow him to Arkansas; Bill as a reluctant suitor and then his whirlwind courtship; her life as the wife of the governor of Arkansas while becoming one of the state's premier lawyers and at the same time raising Chelsea; her groundbreaking contribution to the way the law should view children; her indispensable aid to her husband's successful campaign to bring educational reform to one of America's in most backward states; why her marriage to Bill almost floundered and how she saved it; her intimate, changing role in Bill Clinton's victorious run for the presidency; their triumph together and Hillary Clinton's elevation as t

With Hillary Clinton in the White House, the role of the First Lady will be changed forever. For the first time, a highly-educated, independent career woman will stand by the President's side. This book describes the significant events that shaped Hillary's life and discusses the influence she is likely to have on national decisions and policies. Photographs.