This book uses hundreds of hours of newly opened interviews and
other sources to illuminate the life and times of the nation's
forty-second president, Bill Clinton. Combining the authoritative
perspective of these inside accounts with the analytic powers of
some of America's most distinguished presidential scholars, the
essays assembled here offer a major advance in our collective
understanding of the Clinton White House. Included are
path-breaking chapters on the major domestic and foreign policy
initiatives of the Clinton years, as well as objective discussions
of political success and failure. 42 is the first book to make
extensive use of previously closed interviews collected for the
Clinton Presidential History Project, conducted by the Presidential
Oral History Program of the University of Virginia's Miller Center.
These interviews, recorded by teams of scholars working under a
veil of strict confidentiality, explored officials' memories of
their service with President Clinton and their careers prior to
joining the administration. Interviewees also offered political and
leadership lessons they had gleaned as eyewitnesses to and shapers
of history. Their spoken recollections provide invaluable detail
about the inner history of the presidency in an age when personal
diaries and discursive letters are seldom written. The authors
producing this volume had first access to more than fifty of these
cleared interviews, including sessions with White House chiefs of
staff Mack McLarty and Leon Panetta, Secretaries of State Warren
Christopher and Madeleine Albright, National Security Advisors
Anthony Lake and Sandy Berger, and a host of political advisors who
guided Clinton into the White House and helped keep him there. This
book thus provides a multidimensional portrait of Bill Clinton's
administration, drawing largely on the observations of those who
knew it best.ContributorsSpencer D. Bakich, University of
RichmondBrendan J. Doherty, United States Naval AcademyPatrick T.
Hickey, West Virginia UniversityElaine Kamarck, Center for
Effective Public Management, Brookings InstitutionSidney M. Milkis,
University of VirginiaMegan Moeller, University of Texas at
AustinMichael Nelson, Rhodes College and the Miller Center,
University of VirginiaBruce F. Nesmith, Coe CollegeBarbara A.
Perry, Miller Center, University of VirginiaPaul J. Quirk,
University of British ColumbiaRussell L. Riley, Miller Center,
University of VirginiaAndrew Rudalevige, Bowdoin CollegeRobert A.
Strong, Washington and Lee UniversitySean M. Theriault, University
of Texas at Austin
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