A Woman In Charge

The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton

Carl Bernstein

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Carl Bernstein's acclaimed biography of Hillary Rodham Clinton is the most revealing and balanced portrait yet of the woman poised to become the 44th President of the United States.

A Woman in Charge reveals the true trajectory of Hillary's astonishing life and career. From a staunchly Republican household and apparently idyllic Midwestern girlhood - her disciplinarian father here revealed as harsher than she has acknowledged - we see the shaping of a brilliant girl whose curiosity was fuelled by the ferment of the 1960s and a desire to change the world. During her student years, she was already perceived as a spokeswoman for her generation. Then, at Yale Law School, she met and fell in love with Bill Clinton, cancelling her own dreams to tie her fortunes to his.

Bernstein clarifies the often amazing dynamic of their marriage, charting both her political acumen and her blind spots, and untangling her relationship to the great controversies of Whitewater, Troopergate and Travelgate. And then, in the emotional and political chaos of the Lewinsky affair we see Hillary standing by her husband - evoking a rising wave of sympathy from a public previously cool to her and in effect, Bernstein argues, saving his presidency. It helps carry her into the Senate: her time has come. As she decides to run for President, this self-described 'mind-conservative and heart liberal' has one more chance to fulfill her long-deferred ambitions.

Bernstein has interviewed some 200 of her colleagues, friends and enemies and was given unique access to the candid record of the 1992 presidential campaign kept by Hillary's best friend, Diane Blair. Marshalling all the skills and energy that propelled his history-making Pulitzer prize-winning coverage of Watergate, he gives us a detailed, sophisticated, comprehensive and revealing account of the complex human being and political meteor who has already helped define one presidency and may well become the woman in charge of another.

Published: 15 March 2013
ISBN: 9781448184613
Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
Format: EBook
Pages: 656

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Carl Bernstein

Carl Bernstein won the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Watergate scandal for the Washington Post. His book on the subject, All The President's Men, written with Bob Woodward, became an international bestseller, and was followed by The Final Days. He lives and works in New York City.
Marco Politi, one of Italy's premier journalists, has covered the papacy for the past twenty years and is Vatican correspondent for La Repubblica. He was also a Moscow correspondent for five years. He lives in Rome.

Praise for A Woman In Charge

Of the two Watergate journalists, Bernstein is the brighter, wilder and wittier. His picture of Hillary is a convincing and full one
Sunday Telegraph

A window on the juicy years of political ferment and feminism... it provides some fascinating insights into Hillary's political growth
The Times

A brilliant piece of journalism - impartial but packed with minute, telling details. It's also a fascinating portrait of a marriage: the gloves are very much off, but Hillary still emerges as an exceptional, complicated figure in her own right
Olivia Cole, Independent on Sunday, Books of the Year

The work of a legendary investigative journalist... Bernstein has laboured mightily
Observer

Painstaking, sensitive and elegantly written
Economist

A remarkably revealing portrait
Wall Street Journal

[Carl Bernstein] has not lost his reporter's touch, and A WOMAN IN CHARGE has already refocused serious questions - and supplied new information - about Hillary and Bill Clinton
Washington Post Book World

Stands as a model of contemporary political biography . . . Bernstein has produced an excellent book: thorough, balanced, judicious and deeply reported
Los Angeles Times