Author of the Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller What
Happened
The Phenomenal #1 Worldwide Bestseller--With a New Afterword**
Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions of people
around the world. Yet few beyond her close friends and family have ever
heard her account of her extraordinary journey. She writes with candor,
humor and passion about her upbringing in suburban, middle-class America
in the 1950s and her transformation from Goldwater Girl to student
activist to controversial First Lady.
Living History is her revealing memoir of life through the White House
years. It is also her chronicle of living history with Bill Clinton, a
thirty-year adventure in love and politics that survives personal
betrayal, relentless partisan investigations and constant public
scrutiny.
Hillary Rodham Clinton came of age during a time of tumultuous social
and political change in America. Like many women of her generation, she
grew up with choices and opportunities unknown to her mother or
grandmother. She charted her own course through unexplored terrain --
responding to the changing times and her own internal compass -- and
became an emblem for some and a lightning rod for others. Wife, mother,
lawyer, advocate and international icon, she has lived through America's
great political wars, from Watergate to Whitewater.
The only First Lady to play a major role in shaping domestic
legislation, Hillary Rodham Clinton traveled tirelessly around the
country to champion health care, expand economic and educational
opportunity and promote the needs of children and families, and she
crisscrossed the globe on behalf of women's rights, human rights and
democracy. She redefined the position of First Lady and helped save the
presidency from an unconstitutional, politically motivated impeachment.
Intimate, powerful and inspiring, Living History captures the essence
of one of the most remarkable women of our time and the challenging
process by which she came to define herself and find her own voice -- as
a woman and as a formidable figure in American politics.
