It is also her chronicle of living history with Bill Clinton, a thirty-year adventure in love and politics that survives personal betrayal, relentless partisan investigations and constant public scrutiny. Living History is her revealing memoir of life through the White House years. She writes with candor, humor and passion about her upbringing in suburban, middle-class America in the 1950s and her transformation from Goldwater Girl to student activist to controversial First Lady. Yet few beyond her close friends and family have ever heard her account of her extraordinary journey. Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions of people around the world.
The Phenomenal #1 Worldwide Bestseller-With a New Afterword Illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs and political cartoons, this is a must-have biography about a woman who has fascinated-and divided-the public, who continues to push boundaries, and who isn't afraid to reach for one more goal.Author of the Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller What Happened In Hillary Rodham Clinton: A Woman Living History, critically acclaimed author Karen Blumenthal gives us an intimate and unflinching look at the public and personal life of Hillary Rodham Clinton. Now, she aspires to a bigger role: her nation's first woman president.
Despite intense criticism, Hillary has remained committed to public service and dedicated to health-care reform, children's issues, and women's rights. For all her accomplishments, scrutiny and scandal have followed this complex woman since she stepped into the public eye from her role as First Lady of Arkansas to First Lady of the United States to becoming the first female U.S. In a life on the front row of modern American history, she has always stood out-whether she was a teen campaigning for the 1964 Republican presidential candidate, winning recognition in Life magazine for her pointed words as the first student commencement speaker at Wellesley College, or working on the Richard Nixon impeachment case as a newly minted lawyer. Bob Schieffer, CBS News As a young girl, Hillary Diane Rodham's parents told her she could be whatever she wanted-as long as she was willing to work for it. For young people who are just beginning to be interested in politics, or any of us who want a better understanding of Hillary Clinton, this book is an excellent place to start.
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