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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