The First Partner: Hillary Rodham Clinton: A Biography

by Joyce Milton

Book Overview

nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Hillary Rodham Clinton has fascinated the nation since she became First Lady in 1992. In The First Partner, acclaimed biographer Joyce Milton goes beyond the headlines and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688155014
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Length: 435 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 1.5" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

The First Partner

I wanted to read this book to see what made Hillary Clinton tick. It was a fascinating read, hard to put down. Her childhood and the relationship with her parents was spelled out. Her college days are covered. It offered much insight into the relationship that developed between her and Bill Clinton during their college days and the story continued throughout their courtship, marriage, his time as Governor, his bid for Presidency, her career as a lawyer, the Vince Foster suicide, their relationship with Chelsea, the scandals, the rumors, the affairs, her frustrations, etc. These are two people who will let nothing stand in their way to achieve their goals.

don't be fooled by the obvious planted negative reviews!

Joyce Milton is a terrific biographer (her Lindburg book is especially good) and this is up to her high standards. The partisan planted reviews make for pretty funny reading (especially the guy who talks about John Birch Society cells, but can't even spell it -- do they even still exist?) Milton is a Democrat who was a Clinton fan until she read his astounding letter to Colonel Holmes justifying his draft dodging. The shrill tone of the negatives merely tells us she has hit the target, and it hurts.

GREAT!

Couldn't put it down! Warning: Those who are too dishonest to admit the Clintons are dishonest won't like this book. This book is for people who aren't afraid of the truth.

Now I understand why she stays in an abusive marriage

As a strong woman who has always had trouble understanding why a well-educated woman who is supposed to be at least as strong as I am would stay in such an abusive relationship, this book provided more than enough reasons.This book is a must-read for those who do not understand why women with much less education and promise for their futures would make a similar decision, despite continuing abuse.Hillary Rodham Clinton is much more socialist than I ever would have guessed. She has a head stuck firmly in the 60's, coupled with the attention span of a 5-year-old whose Ritalin ran out a week ago. Her ignorance of the economic realities of life are appalling, and her inability to understand how sweeping revisions of the social structure will adversely affect those least able to adjust to those changes is equally disturbing -- and flabergasting!While differing views of various people interviewed for this book may be a turn-off by some readers, one need only look at the spectrum of emotions elicited by Hillary's husband to understand how people can see one human being through so many different prisms and come to so many different opinions of what they have seen. I would recommend this book to anybody who is a news junky, Clinton-watcher -- on either side of the issue of them as human beings, or just interested in a good read with more than a bit of spice.

Excellent source of information on Hillary

I was eager to learn more about Hillary and this book has been very informative. I am appalled to learn how leftist she really is, how she became influenced in the 60s by the counter-culture and hasn't much changed from that anti-family, pro-big-Brother way of thinking. She curses like a sailor, disdains the "common folk," and despises the press for reporting her husband's Olympian-level philandering. I used to think Bill was a bad influence on her. Now I think they deserve each other.