A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton
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Carl Bernstein's stunning portrait of Hillary Rodham Clinton shows us, as nothing else has, the true trajectory of her life and career with its zigzag bursts of risks taken and safety sought. Marshaling all the skills and energy that propelled his history-making Pulitzer Prize reporting on Watergate, Bernstein gives us the most detailed, sophisticated, comprehensive, and revealing account we have had of the complex human being and political meteor who has already helped define one presidency and maywell become, herself, the woman in charge of another. We see the shaping of Hillary as a self-described "mind conservative and heart liberal"?her ostensibly idyllic Midwestern girlhood (her mother a nurturer, but her father a disciplinarian, harsher than she has acknowledged); her early development of deep religious feelings; her curiosity fueled by dedicated teachers, by exposure to Martin Luther King Jr., by the ferment of the sixties, and, above all, by a desire to change the... The New York Times - Robert Dallek Carl Bernstein presents a—balanced and convincing picture of Mrs. Clinton—He also poses the essential concerns voters will need to confront in deciding whether they will support Mrs. Clinton's 2008 candidacy.
Prologue 9Formation 23A Young Woman on Her Own 66Love and War at Yale 104Making Arkansas Home 149The Prize 320A Transitional Woman 350Inauguration 380Settling In 406Portrait of a First Lady 442A Downhill Path 460Health Care 471The Politics of Meaning...and Family 489The Cruel Season 506Not a Crook, Not a Degenerate 576Truth or Consequences 622Truth or Consequences (2) 709The Longest Season 801A Woman in Charge 889A Note on Sources 917Notes 928Bibliography 1014Acknowledgments 1036
