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 has been no comprehensive, nonpartisan
overview of the Clinton presidency.
Few writers are as qualified and equipped to tackle this vast
subject as the award-winning veteran Washington Post correspondent
John F. Harris, who covered Clinton for six of his eight years in
office-as long as any reporter for a major newspaper. In The
Survivor, Harris frames the historical debate about President
William Jefferson Clinton, by revealing the inner workings of the
Clinton White House and providing the first objective analysis of
Clinton's leadership and its consequences.
Harris shows Clinton entering the Oval Office in 1993 primed to
make history. But with the Cold War recently concluded and the
country coming off a nearly uninterrupted generation of Republican
presidents, the new president's entry into this maelstrom of events
was tumultuous. His troubles were exacerbated by the habits,
personal contacts, and the management style, he had developed in
his years as governor of Arkansas. Clinton's enthusiasm and temper
were legendary, and he and Hillary Rodham Clinton-whose ambitions
and ordeals also fill these pages-arrived filled with mistrust
about many of the characters who greeted them in the "permanent
Washington" that often holds the reins in the nation's capital.
Showing surprising doggedness and a deep-set desire to govern from
the middle, Clinton repeatedly rose to the challenges; eventually
winning over (or running over) political adversaries on both sides
of the aisle-sometimes facing as much skepticism from fellow
Democrats as from his Republican foes. But as Harris shows in his
accounts of political debacles such as the attempted overhaul of
health care, Clinton's frustrations in the war against terrorism,
and the numerous personal controversies that time and again
threatened to consume his presidency, Bill Clinton could never
manage to outrun his tendency to favor conciliation over clarity,
or his own destructive appetites.
The Survivor is the best kind of history, a book filled with major
revelations-the tense dynamic of the Clinton inner circle and
Clinton's professional symbiosis with Al Gore to the imprint of
Clinton's immense personality on domestic and foreign affairs-as
well as the minor details that leaven all great political
narratives. This long-awaited synthesis of the dominant themes,
events, and personalities of the Clinton years will stand as the
authoritative and lasting work on the Clinton Presidency.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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