Book description
Nigel Hamilton's account of Bill Clinton's early life and career -
Bill Clinton: An American Journey - drew widespread praise.
Now, in Bill Clinton: Mastering the Presidency, Nigel Hamilton
charts the experience of the 42nd President as he took presidential
oath of office- and how he fared therafter in the piranha pool of
Washington D. C.
Hamilton charts what was possibly the greatest disaster and
re-reinvention of a president in office in modern times. How Bill
Clinton faced up to his failures, and refashioned himself in the White
House is an epic story. With a thriving U. S. economy and hard-won
wisdom in international affairs and in combating the rise of
terrorism, Clinton would begin his second term as the undisputed,
immensely popular leader of the Western world - aware, however, that
terrors ant treason within America loomed as large as dangers abroad.
Insightful, balanced, prodigiously researched and a joy to read,
Bill Clinton: Mastering the Presidency is set to become,
alongside its prequel, the classic story of Clinton's extraordinary
effort to be a modern president, in a modern world-and a chronicle one
of the most extraordinary reversals of fortune in modern American politics.
Nigel Hamilton is one of Britain's most distinguished biographers. He
began his career with The Brothers Mann, a life of two of Germany's
greatest 20th century authors. He then won the Whitbread Prize and
Templer Medal for
Monty
, his definitive, three-volume official life of Field Marshal Bernard
Montgomery, following which his
JFK: Reckless Youth
proved an international bestseller. He became the first Professor of
Biography in Britain, at De Montfort University, and currently lives in
Boston, Massachusetts, where he is working on the last part of his
Clinton trilogy.
