The Clinton tapes wrestling history with the president

While still a sitting president, Bill Clinton initiated a project to preserve for historians an unfiltered record of presidential experience. Clinton talks intimately over seven years to his long-time friend, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, about what it's like to be president, highlighting...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Branch, Taylor (-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York [etc.] : Simon & Schuster 2009
Edición:1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed
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Acceso en línea:Acceso a las primeras páginas
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b32611031*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Twin recorders
  • Reunion
  • Truman balcony
  • Culture clashes: from Bosnia to a haircut
  • Passages: NAFTA, China, Whitewater
  • Mother's death and the special prosecutor
  • Clinton and the press
  • Missiles in Baghdad
  • Supreme Court choices
  • Foreign travels
  • Hillary's dream
  • Haiti: the brink of war
  • Yeltsin and the Gingrich revolution
  • Tirades: "I really let them have it"
  • Bailout, bombs, and recovery
  • Oklahoma City
  • Girding for showdown
  • Pope John Paul II: "Tell me how you see the world"
  • Murder of Rabin
  • Triumph and fury: "You live to have only a few days like that"
  • Family feuds: from Greenspan to Saddam Hussein
  • Primary season
  • Terrorism, welfare reform, and the Chicago convention
  • Reelection 1996
  • Bittersweet renewal
  • Whitewater tapes: on the high wire
  • "I think they're pretty good rumors"
  • Jones case
  • Chinese land mines-- Buddy and Socks
  • Lewinsky
  • Impeached
  • Trial
  • Kosovo, Columbine, and Kashimir
  • To the Millennium: peacemakers and treason
  • On to New Hampshire
  • Camp David
  • Jerusalem and the three Ps
  • Deadlock 200: "This election is tight as a tick"
  • Farewell.