First In His Class
A Biography Of Bill Clinton
1st Edition
Published on 30. June 2008
512 pages
978-1-4391-2835-0 (ISBN)
Description
Who exactly is Bill Clinton, and why was he, of all the brilliant and ambitious men in his generation, the first in his class to reach the White House?
Drawing on hundreds of letters, documents, and interviews, David Maraniss explores the evolution of the personality of our forty-second president from his youth in Arkansas to his 1991 announcement that he would run for the nation's highest office.
In this richly textured and balanced biography, Maraniss reveals a complex man full of great flaws and great talents. First in His Class is the definitive book on Bill Clinton.
Drawing on hundreds of letters, documents, and interviews, David Maraniss explores the evolution of the personality of our forty-second president from his youth in Arkansas to his 1991 announcement that he would run for the nation's highest office.
In this richly textured and balanced biography, Maraniss reveals a complex man full of great flaws and great talents. First in His Class is the definitive book on Bill Clinton.
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David Maraniss is an associate editor at The Washington Post and a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt University. He has won two Pulitzer Prizes for journalism and was a finalist three other times. Among his bestselling books are biographies of Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Roberto Clemente, and Vince Lombardi, and a trilogy about the 1960s-Rome 1960; Once in a Great City (winner of the RFK Book Prize); and They Marched into Sunlight (winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Prize and Pulitzer Finalist in History).
Content
- Cover page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Prologue: Washington, D.C., 1963
- Chapter One Hope And Chance
- Chapter Two In All His Glory
- Chapter Three The Road Ahead
- Chapter Four He Was On Fire
- Chapter Five The Back Room Boys
- Chapter Six All Hell Broke Loose
- Chapter Seven The Great Escape
- Chapter Eight The Dreaming Spires
- Chapter Nine Feeling The Draft
- Chapter Ten The Torment
- Chapter Eleven The Lucky Number
- Chapter Twelve The Grand Tour
- Chapter Thirteen Law And Politics At Yale
- Chapter Fourteen Rodham And Clinton
- Chapter Fifteen Texas Days
- Chapter Sixteen Home Again
- Chapter Seventeen And Not To Yield
- Chapter Eighteen Running With The Boy
- Chapter Nineteen Governor-In-Waiting
- Chapter Twenty Great Expectations
- Chapter Twenty-One The Only Track
- Chapter Twenty-Two The Permanent Campaign
- Chapter Twenty-Three Relationships
- Chapter Twenty-Four Saying The Words
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Index
- Photo Credits
