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1) My life
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IL: UG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 92
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English
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President Bill Clinton's my life is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided early in life to devote his intellectual and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for hard work, to serving the public. This is his story.
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"In 1971, Hillary Rodham is a young woman full of promise. Life magazine covered her Wellesley commencement speech, she's attending Yale Law School, and she's on the forefront of student activism and the women's rights movement. Then she meets a fellow law student named Bill Clinton. A charismatic Southerner, Bill is already laying the groundwork for his political career. In each other, Hillary and Bill find a profound intellectual, emotional, and...
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"Delves into [what Klein sees as] the rocky relationship between the Obamas and the Clintons ... [positing] just how deep the rivalry between the Obamas and the Clintons runs, with details on closed-door meetings buttressed by hundreds of interviews"--Amazon.com.
They are the two most powerful Democratic families in the country-- allies by circumstance, rivals in fact, and enemies by personal animosity. Klein delves into what he sees as the rocky...
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William Jefferson Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States is undoubtedly the greatest American enigma of our age--a dark horse that captured the White House, fell from grace and was resurrected as an elder statesman whose popularity rises and falls based on the day's sound bytes. John Gartner's In Search of Bill Clinton unravels the mystery at the heart of Clinton's complex nature and why so many people fall under his spell.
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Encyclopedia of presidents volume 42
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Presents a biography of the Arkansas governor who became the forty-second president of the United States.
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English
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Go beyond the headlines of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal and revisit the story of Monica Lewinsky in this authorized biography from Andrew Morton, the basis for the FX miniseries Impeachment.
Monica Lewinsky. You know her name, you know her face, and you think you know her story: the pretty young intern who began an illicit affair with the President of the United States-- a liaison that ignited an unprecedented political scandal and found Bill Clinton...
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While serving as a Secret Service Officer, Gary Byrne protected President Bill Clinton and the First Family in the White House and outside the Oval Office. There, he saw the political and personal machinations of Bill and Hillary Clinton and those who were fiercely loyal to them. Now Byrne provides a firsthand account of the scandals -- known and unknown -- and daily trials ranging from the minor to national in scale.
9) Bill Clinton
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
770L
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English
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"This biography introduces readers to Bill Clinton including his early political career and key events from Clinton's administration including the North American Free Trade Agreement, 2000 Camp David Summit, and his impeachment by the House of Representatives. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included."--
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In No One Left to Lie To, a New York Times bestseller, Christopher Hitchens casts an unflinching eye on the Clinton political machine and offers a searing indictment of a president who sought to hold power at any cost.
With blistering wit and meticulous documentation, Hitchens masterfully deconstructs Clinton's abject propensity for pandering to the Left while delivering to the Right, and he argues that the president's personal transgressions were...
12) Living history
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.9 - AR Pts: 42
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English
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Hillary Rodham Clinton tells her life story, describing her dedication to social causes, her relationship with her husband, and her accomplishments and difficult periods as First Lady.
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
950L
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English
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A thorough, illustrated biography discussing the childhood, career, family, and term of William (Bill) Clinton, forty-second president of the United States. Includes a table of contents, time line, phonetic glossary, sources for further research, an index, and detailed captions and sidebars to aid in comprehension.
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The author dismantles the president's defenses, brick by evasive brick, and analyzes the meaning of the Clinton scandals: why they matter, what the public reaction to them means, and the social and political damage they have already inflicted on America. The most persuasive public arguments made by the president's supporters wither under the clear light of moral reason and common sense. The book exposes the fallacious and demeaning logic that argues...
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The definitive account of one of the most accomplished, controversial, and polarizing figures in American history
Bill Clinton is the most arresting leader of his generation. He transformed American politics, and his eight years as president spawned arguments that continue to resonate. For all that has been written about this singular personality–including Clinton’s own massive autobiography–there...
The definitive account of one of the most accomplished, controversial, and polarizing figures in American history
Bill Clinton is the most arresting leader of his generation. He transformed American politics, and his eight years as president spawned arguments that continue to resonate. For all that has been written about this singular personality–including Clinton’s own massive autobiography–there...
16) Because he could
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English
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Who is Bill Clinton? A man whose presidency was disgraced by impeachment -- yet who remains one of the most popular presidents of our time. A man whose autobiography, My Life, was panned by critics as a self-indulgent daily diary -- but rode the bestseller lists for months. A man whose policies changed America at the close of the twentieth century -- yet whose weakness left us vulnerable to terror at the dawn of the twenty-first. No one better understands...
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An evaluation of the post-presidential life of Bill Clinton draws on interviews with friends, associates, and adversaries to address questions about how he has adjusted to a life of reduced power, the nature of his relationship with Hillary, and the state of his health.
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Joe Klein, best-selling author of Primary Colors and one of our most brilliant political analysts, now tackles the subject he knows best: Bill Clinton. Astute, even-handed, and keenly intelligent, The Natural is the only book to read if you want to understand exactly what happened-to the military, to the economy, to the American people, to the country-during Bill Clinton's presidency, and how the decisions made during his tenure affect all of us today....
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"A veteran political journalist chronicles the post-presidential achievements and adventures of Bill Clinton, drawing on interviews with dozens of the former President's colleagues, friends, supporters and family members to examine his philanthropic work, the charges of corruption levied against him and the ways he continues to inspire and infuriate the world"--NoveList.
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R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., Editor-in-Chief of The American Spectator, traces the formative influences on the young, fatherless Clinton by the hustlers and rogues who populated his boyhood hometown of Hot Springs, Arkansas. Tyrrell shows how the influence-peddlers who dominated Arkansas politics served as Clinton's real political models, and explains how these factors combined with Clinton's '60s-era radicalism to create a new, more dangerous type of...
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