St Martin's Press Bill Clinton (English, Paperback, Tomasky Micha...

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The president of larger-than-life ambitions and appetites whose term defined America at the close of the twentieth century. Bill Clinton - A president of contradictions. He was a Rhodes Scholar and a Yale Law School graduate, but he was also a fatherless child from rural Arkansas. He was one of the most talented politicians of his age, but he inspired enmity of such intensity that his opponents would stop at nothing to destroy him. He was the first Democrat since Franklin Roosevelt to win two successive presidential elections, but he was also the first president since Andrew Johnson to be impeached. In this incisive biography of America�s forty-second president, Michael Tomasky examines Clinton�s eight years in office, a time often described as one of peace and prosperity, but in reality a time of social and political upheaval, as the culture wars grew ever more intense amid the rise of the Internet (and with it, online journalism and blogging), military actions in Somalia, Iraq, Bosnia and Kosovo, standoffs at Waco and Ruby Ridge, domestic terrorism in Oklahoma City and the rise of al - Qaeda. It was a time when Republicans took control of Congress and a land deal gone bad turned into a constitutional crisis. Tomasky�s clear-eyed assessment of Clinton�s presidency offers a new perspective on what happened, what it all meant and what aspects continue to define American politics to this day. In many ways, we are still living in the Age of Clinton., About the Author : Michael Tomasky is a special correspondent for The Daily Beast and the editor in chief of Democracy, as well as a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. He was previously executive editor of The American Prospect and the founding editor of Guardian America. He is the author of Left for Dead - The Life, Death and Possible Resurrection of Progressive Politics in America and Hillary�s Turn - Inside Her Improbable, Victorious Senate Campaign. He lives outside Washington, D. C.