by Bill Clinton
No. This is not how biographies should be written. This is not a "reading" bio. It's a referential one. Bill Clinton does not worry about turning his life into a story. It's just a telling of "this happened to me, then this".
There's something familiar about Bill Clinton's personality. Raised without a father, he adopts Anglo-Saxon self-help and list-making books, without being temperamentally suited to them. A Pulitzer-prize winning author told me Clinton was possibly the country's most intelligent president. If you can...
i read it's first vol.
After finishing this behemoth, I'm actually glad it was as long as it was, for the following reasons. Firstly, he gave us an in depth look at his childhood years growing up in the South with his extended family and his colourful mum, Virginia and insightfully connected the impact of that part of his...
I think with any presidential autobiography, one needs to be careful of revisionist history. They are all guilty of it. However, I loved Pres. Clinton's writing style. It was warm and inviting, particularly, even though some really sad things happened, in his early childhood. I thought there was a ...
There is much that is good about the book. There is much that is annoying. I most enjoyed his descriptions of dealings with foreign leaders. We get the skinny on who was really in favor of what, who was willing to make serious concessions, who was not. Good stuff. The part of the book about his ear...
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