Her Way

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HER WAY
More than three decades ago, in the earliest days of their romance, Bill and Hillary strucit a plan, one that would become both the foundation and the engine of their relationship. They agreed to work together to revolutionize the Democratic Party and ultimately make the White House their home. Once their "twenty-year project" was realized, with Bill's victory in 1992, their plan became even more ambitious: eight years as president for him, then dight years for her. Their audacious pact has remained a secret until now.
While their plan wis hatched together, Hillary had her own ideas about what it would take to achieve victory. She concluded that if she had any chance of winning the ultimate prize of her life, she would need to pursue.it her way. That meant, among other things, carefully crafting a persona and a narrative to present to the American public that knew both so much and so little atout her.
Of course, Hillary Clinton is far from the only politician to... Tovább

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HER WAY
More than three decades ago, in the earliest days of their romance, Bill and Hillary strucit a plan, one that would become both the foundation and the engine of their relationship. They agreed to work together to revolutionize the Democratic Party and ultimately make the White House their home. Once their "twenty-year project" was realized, with Bill's victory in 1992, their plan became even more ambitious: eight years as president for him, then dight years for her. Their audacious pact has remained a secret until now.
While their plan wis hatched together, Hillary had her own ideas about what it would take to achieve victory. She concluded that if she had any chance of winning the ultimate prize of her life, she would need to pursue.it her way. That meant, among other things, carefully crafting a persona and a narrative to present to the American public that knew both so much and so little atout her.
Of course, Hillary Clinton is far from the only politician to exaggerate her past
accomplishments, to stuff the unpleasantness of the past into corners where few look, to
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make mistakes and then pretend not to have done so. She is not the only politician to have said one thing and done another, to have left former friends and allies on the side of the road as she's moved ahead. Yet if a candidate asks us to consider her the smartest and most qualified of the pack, then she should shine brighter than all the rest.
And Hillary Rodham Clinton is unique inlthat never before has such a high-profile candidate occupied the spotlight for so long y|/ithout the public's learning the facts about so much that is crucial to finally understanding lier. For decades, Hillary and Bill Clinton, along with a core group of friends and supporters, have told one story. Now it is time for another.
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She is one of the most influential and recognizable figures in our country, and perhaps the single most divisive individual in our political landscape. She has been the subject of both hagiography and smear jobs. But although dozens of books have been written about her, none of them have come close to uncovering the real Hillary—personal, political, In all her complications.
Now, as she makes her historic run for the presidency, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporters Jeff Gerth and Don Van Nafta Jr. bring us the first comprehensive and balanced portrait of the most important woman in American politics. Drawing upon myriad new sources and previously undisclosed documents. Her Way takes readers from the dorm rooms at Wellesley to the courthouses of Arkansas and Washington; to the White House and Hillaty's role as a First Lady like no other; to the back rooms of the Senate, where she expertly navigates the political and legislative shoals; and to her multimillion-dollar mansion in Washington and her campaign war room.
Her M/ay reveals the secret pact between Hillary and Bill, made in the early 1970s, to capture the White House, and how once Bill was elected right on schedule, the plan was expanded to include a Hillary presidency. Van Natta and Gerth explain her fifteen-year rivalry with Al Gore and her new rivalry with Barack Obama. The book reveals more than a dozen instances in which Hillary apparently violated Senate ethics rules, her consulting a secret energy task force while in the Senate, remarkable new details about questionable legal work in Arkansas, new information about Vince Foster's relationship with Hillary, and her secret role In keeping hidden the true story of her husband's draft record. Gerth and Van Natta take us inside the complicated Clinton marriage, exploring how it has lasted—and why—through both political victories and the dark nights of betrayal. And they reveal, at long last.
versial Iraq War votes.
No one in American history has ever had a life like this—First Lady, senator, and, perhaps, president. Brilliantly reported, Her Way is essential reading for anyone with an opinion about Hillary Rodham Clinton.
JEFF GERTH spent thirty years as an investigative reporter at the New York Times, most of it based in the newspaper's Washington bureau. His groundbreaking stories include Whitewater in 1992 and Osama bin Laden in 1996, and in 1999 he won the Pulitzer Prize for reporting on American technology transfers to China. In 2004, he was a visiting professor at Princeton University. He lives with his wife in Washington, DC, and they have one daughter.
DON VAN NATTA JR. is an investigative reporter at the New York Times. Twice at the Times and once at the Miami Herald, he was a member of reporting teams that were awarded the Pulitzer Prize. He is also the author of First Off the Tee, a national bestseller and a New York limes Notable Nonfiction Book. He lives in northern New Jersey with his wife and their two daughters. Vissza