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    A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton
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    A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton

    Written by Carl Bernstein

    Narrated by Dick Rodstein

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    Carl Bernstein's stunning portrait of Hillary Rodham Clinton shows us, as nothing else has, the true trajectory of her life and career with its zigzag bursts of risks taken and safety sought. Marshaling all the skills and energy that propelled his history-making Pulitzer Prize reporting on Watergate, Bernstein gives us the most detailed, sophisticated, comprehensive, and revealing account we have had of the complex human being and political meteor who has already helped define one presidency and may well become, herself, the woman in charge of another.
    In his preparation for A Woman in Charge, Bernstein reexamined everything pertinent written about and by Hillary Clinton. He interviewed some two hundred of her colleagues, friends, and enemies and was allowed unique access to the candid record of the 1992 presidential campaign kept by Hillary's best friend, Diane Blair. He has given us an audiobook that enables us, at last, to address the questions Americans are insistently-even obsessively-asking about Hillary Clinton: What is her character? What is her political philosophy? Who is she? What can we expect of her?
    As she decides to run for president, her husband now her valued aide, she has one more chance to fulfill her ambition for herself-to change the world.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJun 5, 2007
    ISBN9780739358078
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    A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton
    Author

    Carl Bernstein

    Carl Bernstein is the author or coauthor of a number of bestselling books, most notably All the President’s Men, written with Bob Woodward. He, Woodward, and the Washington Post were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for breaking and investigating the Watergate story, which led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon and set the standard for modern investigative reporting. He is also the author of biographies of Pope John Paul II and Hillary Clinton and a memoir of his family’s experiences during the McCarthy era. He is currently an on-air political analyst for CNN and a contributing editor for Vanity Fair. He lives in New York City.

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    • 4/5
      This biography accurately reflects all Hillary's challenges throughout her political career. It's a tough but fair look at a fighter.
    • 4/5
      I enjoyed the narrative of this book. I gained a better understanding as to why she is perceived as she is. The book solidified my support for her as a public servant.
    • 4/5
      This was an interesting book choice based on what was happening in US politics at the time of my reading - Obama defeated Clinton for the Democratic Presidential nomination as I was paging through the biography. I liked the way Bernstein handled his subject matter - I know he's a democratic but he didn't try to oversell it. I found this to be fair and impartial for the most part with some interesting insights into behaviour and decisions made between 1992 and 1999.
    • 4/5
      Inhaltsangabe:Mit diesem knapp 1000 Seiten-starke Werk will der Pulizerpreis-Träger Carl Bernstein, der damals zusammen mit Bob Woodward die Watergate-Affäre aufdeckte, uns den Mythos um Hillary Rodham Clinton erläutern, näher bringen und diese Person verständlich machen.Sie wuchs in ärmlichen Verhältnissen auf. Ihr Vater sehr streng und ihre Mutter stets im Schatten ihres Vaters, wurde von ihr schon früh abverlangt. Und gleichzeitig wurde sie dazu erzogen, dafür zu kämpfen und einzustehen, was man erreichen will. Das zieht sich zum College durch, wo sie bereits erste politische Aktionen und Kontakte pflegte. Viele Persönlichkeiten lernt sie im Laufe ihres Lebens kennen, die in irgendeiner Weise das Leben begleitet oder von einem anderen Blickwinkel beleuchtet haben.Als sie Bill Clinton kennen lernte, war ihr schnell klar, das er der geeignete Kandidat fürs Weiße Haus wäre. Aber seine zahlreichen Affären haben schon immer ihre Beziehung belastet. Aber mit eiserner Entschlossenheit und einer gehörigen Portion Abgebrühtheit lässt sie an der Seite dieses Mannes wachsen, um letztendlich ihre eigenen politischen Ideen zu verwirklichen.Mein Fazit:Ich habe damals, als noch Bill Clinton Präsident der USA war und sich die Republikaner an der Affäre mit Monika Lewinsky weideten, gesagt, das Hillary Clinton eines Tages wieder kommt. Ich habe ihr von Anfang an den Biss und die Nerven zugetraut, noch einmal politisch ganz nach oben zu wollen. Mit dieser Kandidatur ist es nun gescheitert, wie man inzwischen weiß, aber dennoch wird sie immer wieder da sein, in den Medien und in der Politik.Meine Rezie beschränkt sich lediglich auf die ersten 312 Seiten, die ich bislang gelesen habe. Ich bin politisch nicht ganz so involviert, kann nur oberflächlich mithalten mit den ganzen Fakten und Tatsachen, die der Autor in diesem Buch geschrieben hat. Denn das private nimmt eigentlich eher 25% des Ganzen ein. Es geht viel mehr um den politischen Werdegang von Hillary Clinton, um die politischen Erfahrungen, ihre Kontakte und Ideale. Ganz sicher kann man sich selbstverständlich auch nicht sein, denn der Autor war ja nie wirklich zugegen. Es ist vielmehr ein Ergebnis von vielen zusammen getragenen Gesprächsfetzen, Interviews, Berichten und Artikel. Daraus hat der Autor dann Schlussfolgerungen zusammen gestellt und dieses Buch geschrieben.So sehr mich dieses Buch auch interessierte, aber mir war das Gewicht von Politik und Privatleben zu stark (Politik 75-80%). Ich konnte häufig nicht verstehen, worum es ging, weil mir die Tatsachen einfach nicht Gewahr waren. Teilweise ging es mir auch einfach zu tief in die Politik rein. Tausend Namen, Gegebenheiten und Situationen muss man schon auseinander halten. Dafür bin ich nicht geeignet, denn ich habe leider nicht dieses tiefe Fachwissen. Für den Experten ist dieses Buch sicher eine interessante Lektüre. Ich vergebe aufgrund der sehr tiefen Recherche des Autors und dem daraus resultierenden intensiven Portraits vier Sterne!Anmerkung: Die Rezension stammt aus Oktober 2008.
    • 4/5
      I began reading this book by Carl Bernstein with a little hesitancy. Have read so many books about political people that were either a whitewash or dug for more than what really was there. I was very pleased with the work he did. Bought it only because of his name. He did an outstanding job with Hillary. He did not hesitate to saw where she was wrong or point out the faults whe has yet he was clear in those cases in which he thinks she was wrongly accused. Begins in childhood and goes to the time of her running for the Senate. I am exicted by this book.J. Robert Ewbank author "John Wesley, Natural Man, and the 'Isms'"
    • 3/5
      The best that can be said is that it is very thorough.....in fact it's way TOO thorough. Could have left out at least 1/3 and still given us all we ever wanted to know. I suppose that true biography calls for all the details, but wow did it ever get bogged down with detail after detail about every single meeting, phone call, and who struck john.....and in the end, I'm still not sure how I feel about Hilary as a person. Perhaps that's the job of a biographer....to give us facts and let us draw our own conclusions.
    • 2/5
      Goes into lots of detail about Sen. Clinton's life from beginning to present. At first it was interesting to understand the politics behind all the gossip. After awhile it kept repeating, skipped every other chapter in the last third of the book. I wonder what she would have accomplished had she not wasted so much time & energy propping up and rescuing Bill?
    • 3/5
      Good, factual, political biography. Interesting view of American society and the changes it underwent in the sixties and seventies. Hillary as husband-in-office is quite terrifying: she's not up to the political respondability her husband gave her with Health Care and constantly takes the wrong decisions. General feeling that she'd better run for office herself after attending Yale. The years as a corporate lawyer in the deontologically not so clean Arkansas environment seem to have changed her political convictions and made her a pure power woman. Fundamental problem: Hillary hasn't got real political convictions. Only religious ones. She basically is a product of a Republican family. Here only truly revolutionary behavior lies in her feminist point of view. Unfortunately, she married Bill Clinton...
    • 4/5
      Bernstein writes very well about the Clintons' extraordinary political joint venture and what appears to be a genuine desire for public service. The book is a catalogue of ambition, hard graft, political expediency, naivety, disappointment and soul searching. But, above all, it represents a remarkable list of qualifications that will hopefully mean Hillary Clinton is elected as the first female president of the United States
    • 4/5
      A highly readable recap of the highs and lows in Hillary Clinton's topsy turvy public life. Bernstein does a remarkably good job of objectively chronicling Clinton's path to power, vividly recounting the achievements as well as the setbacks. From the Clintons' courtship days in law school, to crises such as the infamous blue dress debacle, Bernstein's book will provide insights even to those who think they've closely followed contemporary history. In some sections, one wishes the author would delve a bit more deeply into issues. But "A Woman in Charge" does an excellent job of providing thumbnail sketches of how Clinton rose to power -- and how she grappld with many historic controversies.