A Woman In Charge - Carl Bernstein

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. 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 world. At Wellesley we watch Hillary a Republican turned Democrat thriving in the new sky s-the-limit freedom for women already perceived as a spokeswoman for her generation her commencement speech celebrated in Life magazine. And the book takes us to Yale Law School as Hillary meets and falls in love with Bill Clinton and cancels her dream to go her own way to New York or Washington tying her fortune instead to his in Arkansas. Bernstein clarifies the often amazing dynamic of their marriage shows us the extent to which Hillary has been instrumental in the t

TITLE: A Woman In Charge

AUTHOR: Carl Bernstein

SKU: 9780091920791

PUBLISHER: Cornerstone

DATE PUBLISHED: 05/06/2007

PLACE PUBLISHED: United Kingdom

PAGES: 640

BINDING: Paperback / softback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 149 mm x 235 mm x 37 mm

WEIGHT: 756 gr