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Invoice Clinton: a chief executive of contradictions. He was a Rhodes Scholar and a Yale Legislation Institution graduate, but he was also a fatherless child from rural Arkansas. He was one of the very most talented politicians of his era, but he encouraged enmity of such intensity that his competitors would stop at nothing to destroy him. He was the first Democrat since Franklin Roosevelt to gain two successive presidential elections, but he was also the first chief executive since Andrew Johnson to be impeached. Within this incisive biography of America's 42nd chief executive, Michael Tomasky examines Clinton's eight years in office, a time often referred to as one of peace and prosperity, however in reality a time of sociable and political upheaval, as the culture wars grew ever more intense amid the surge of the web (and with it, online journalism and blogging); military activities in Somalia, Iraq, Bosnia, and Kosovo; standoffs at Waco and Ruby Ridge; home terrorism in Oklahoma City; and the surge of al-Qaeda. It was a time when Republicans needed control of Congress and a land offer gone bad converted into a constitutional turmoil, as lurid information on a sitting president's intimate activities became the concentration of public argument. Tomasky's clear-eyed diagnosis of Clinton's presidency offers a fresh point of view on what took place, what it all meant, and what aspects continue steadily to identify American politics even today. In lots of ways, we are still living in the age of Clinton.
