The Woman in the White House: The Remarkable Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton

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Carol Publishing Group, 1996 - Biography & Autobiography - 233 pages
Here is the complete, updated story of Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has forever changed the role of the First Lady. For the first time, a highly educated, independent career woman stands at the President's side. Described as one of America's top legal minds, she is the first woman to enter the White House after having established a successful career in law. She has played key roles in many presidential decisions. The personification of the woman of the nineties, Hillary Rodham Clinton is her husband's peer, able to deftly juggle career and family. The Woman in the White House describes the significant events, forces, and people who shaped her life from her childhood to the present and discusses the influence she has had in national decisions and policies. It is all here: growing up in a typical midwestern suburb as a Goldwater Republican; her years at Yale Law School, where she and fellow student Bill Clinton joined together in their first contest arguing a case in moot court, which they lost; her ambivalence over her career and future as a lawyer; her love for Bill, which ultimately caused her to follow him to Arkansas; playing the part of the wife of the Governor of Arkansas while becoming one of the state's premier lawyers and at the same time raising Chelsea; her groundbreaking contribution to the way the law should view children; her indispensable aid to her husband's successful campaign to bring educational reform to one of America's most backward states; why her marriage to Bill almost floundered and how she saved it; her intimate, changing role in Bill's victorious run for the presidency; and Hillary's contributions during Bill Clinton's term, including the disaster of healthcare reform and the triumphant trip to China.

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Sister Frigidaire
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A RightThinker
14
Children and the Law
22
Copyright

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