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Author Branch, Taylor.

Title The Clinton tapes : wrestling history with the president / Taylor Branch.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : Simon & Schuster, 2009.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  973.929 C617Bbr 2009    ---  Available
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Non-Fiction  973.929 Bra    ---  Available
Edition 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Description x, 707 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations, photographs ; 25 cm
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Note Includes index.
Summary While still a sitting president, Bill Clinton initiated a project to preserve for historians an unfiltered record of presidential experience. Clinton talks intimately over seven years to his long-time friend, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, about what it's like to be president, highlighting major events from Clinton's two terms, including war in Bosnia, the anti-deficit crusade, health reform failure, anti-terrorist strikes, peace initiatives, the 1996 re-election campaign, and Whitewater investigations culminating in his 1999 impeachment trial.--Publisher description.
Contents Twin recorders -- Reunion -- Truman balcony -- Culture clashes: from Bosnia to a haircut -- Passages: NAFTA, China, Whitewater -- Mother's death and the special prosecutor -- Clinton and the press -- Missiles in Baghdad -- Supreme Court choices -- Foreign travels -- Hillary's dream -- Haiti: the brink of war -- Yeltsin and the Gingrich revolution -- Tirades: "I really let them have it" -- Bailout, bombs, and recovery -- Oklahoma City -- Girding for showdown -- Pope John Paul II: "Tell me how you see the world" -- Murder of Rabin -- Triumph and fury: "You live to have only a few days like that" -- Family feuds: from Greenspan to Saddam Hussein -- Primary season -- Terrorism, welfare reform, and the Chicago convention -- Reelection 1996 -- Bittersweet renewal -- Whitewater tapes: on the high wire -- "I think they're pretty good rumors" -- Jones case -- Chinese land mines-- Buddy and Socks -- Lewinsky -- Impeached -- Trial -- Kosovo, Columbine, and Kashimir -- To the Millennium: peacemakers and treason -- On to New Hampshire -- Camp David -- Jerusalem and the three Ps -- Deadlock 2000: "This election is tight as a tick" -- Farewell.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Clinton, Bill, 1946- -- Political and social views.
Clinton, Bill, 1946- -- Interviews.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1993-2001.
Presidents -- United States -- Interviews.
Reporters and reporting -- United States.
ISBN 9781416543336 (hardback)
1416543333 (hardback)
9781416594345 (ebook)
1416594345 (ebook)

 
    
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