品牌：
基本信息
·出版社：Crown Publishers/Random House
·页码：360 页码
·出版日：1996年
·ISBN：051759871X
·条码：9780517598719
·版次：1996-09-15
·装帧：精装
·开本：20开 20开
内容简介
Book Description
Martin Walker's critical biography of Bill Clinton focuses on the president as a classical figure of America's post-World War II meritocracy, a poor boy from the segregated Old South who won scholarships to elite universities and became a lawyer fascinated by the process and the power of government.
This president's background is as grittily American as the woeful tales that wail from jukeboxes in bars across the land. Bill Clinton is Bubba with brains, a redneck with a Rhodes scholarship - America at her most raw - and most cultivated. Martin Walker presents a thorough and insightful account of the tumultuous Clinton administration from the president's foreign policy failures in Bosnia and Somalia to his successes in the Baltic and Northern Ireland, and to the ever-changing role of Hillary Rodham Clinton and her impact on her husband's presidency, beginning with the First Lady's health reform efforts to her involvement in Whitewater and the travel office controversy. Martin Walker shows us the why, the how, and the future of the Clinton administration, which has been unpredictable, volatile, and continually fascinating.
Amazon.com
With the harsh partisanship and sensationalism associated with the coverage of American politics, it's perhaps not surprising that it takes a Brit to provide the proper perspective of American politics at the end of the 20th century. Martin Walker, Washington correspondent for Britain's the Guardian newspaper, used the occasion of the 1996 presidential campaign to produce a thorough account of President Bill Clinton and his place in American history. Walker follows Clinton through his development, examining his early life, his college experiences--including tales from Clinton's Oxford classmates who were there when he didn't inhale--on through his presidential performance. Walker focuses on substance rather than the trivialities of personal life, reviewing the president's policies for what they are and objectively placing them in context of America in the 1990s.
FromPublishers Weekly
Bill Clinton, argues Walker, is a genuine New Democrat who wants to revise the liberal reforms of the 1960s, to end welfare dependency, provide universal health insurance, cut the deficit and get tough on crime. Clinton's vision of an activist government involves investment in high-tech industries, creation of an ecology corps and free college education in return for two years of community service. But this ambitious agenda, in Walker's analysis, was largely derailed by budgetary constraints, the Whitewater scandal and a Republican opposition that, ironically, shares many objectives of Clinton's new centrist consensus. Washington correspondent for Britain's Guardian, Walker, an acquaintance of Clinton going back to Oxford, relies heavily on published sources. Nevertheless, this is a kinetic, dramatic political biography of the 42nd president, whom Walker credits with charting for the U.S. a new post-Cold War international course as linchpin of a free-trading global economy. Photos.
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