Hillary Rodham Clinton is a formidable, fascinating, enigmatic woman,
and this provocative, probing biography - in the works for over two
years - offers real insight into her character, her values, and her
career. Joyce Milton offers a meticulously detailed chronicle of Mrs.
Clinton's life: her midwestern childhood; her first Washington stint as
a legal staffer in the Watergate investigation; her ambiguous dual role
in Arkansas as a public interest lawyer and a politician's wife; and her
tumultuous White House years as the most controversial First Lady in
America's history - and now the most visibly wronged woman in the world.
Milton offers new perspectives on the firestorms that have raged about
the First lady, from the healthcare fiasco to Whitewater and Vince
Foster's suicide, to her husband's chronic infidelity and the scandals
that have threatened the Clinton legacy and, ironically, have cast
Hillary Clinton in a new, more sympathetic role. Milton also examines
her attempts to reconcile a host of contradictions - feminist
convictions in painful collision with family commitment; philosophical
beliefs in conflict with harsh political reality; the precarious balance
between professional ambition, public image, and private life. Lively
and even-handed, this biography is sure to be required reading - and
listening.
