Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton

by Jeff Gerth, Don Van Natta Jr.

Overview

The truth about the most important woman in America

In Her Way, two Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times investigative journalists deliver: Previously undisclosed details about the Clinton's multi-decade plan for powerincluding 8 years in the White House for Bill and 8 years for Hillary.

Never-before-revealed information about Hillary's involvement in her husband's campaigns - including cover-ups and the truth about Bill's draft record. New details regarding Hillary's rivalry with Al Gore - and why it is likely to heat up. Provocative new information about Hillary's vote to authorize the Iraq War, and the steps she has taken to distance herself from that vote. Revelations about Bill Clinton's role in Hillary's campaign and his surprising opinion of Barack Obama New details of Hillary's failure to adhere to Senate ethics rules, and what this says about her political empire

She is one of the most influential and recognizable figures in our country, and perhaps the single most divisive individual in our political landscape. She has been the subject of both hagiography and vitriolic smear jobs. But although dozens of books have been written about her, none of them have come close to uncovering the real Hillary — personal, political, in all her complications.

Now, as she make her historic run for the presidency, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporters Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta Jr. bring us the first comprehensive and balanced portrait of the most important woman in American politics. Drawing upon myriad new sources and previously undisclosed documents, Her Way shows us how, like many women of her generation, Hillary Rodham Clinton tempered a youthful idealism with the realities of corporate America and big-league politics. It takes readers from the dorm rooms at Wellesley to the courthouses of Arkansas and Washington; to the White House and role as First Lady like none other; inside the back rooms of the Senate, where she expertly navigates the political and legislative shoals; to her $4 million mansion in Washington, where she presides over an unparalleled fundraising machine; and to her war room, from which she orchestrates ferocious attacks against her critics. Throughout her career, she has been alternately helped and hindered by her marriage to Bill Clinton.

Her Way unravels the mysteries of their political partnership — one of the most powerful and enigmatic in American history. It also explains why Hillary is such a polarizing figure. And more than any other book, it reveals what her ultimate hopes and ambitions are — for herself and for America.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780316017435
Publisher:	Little, Brown and Company
Publication date:	04/07/2008
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	464
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Jeff Gerth has been a New York Times reporter for more than a quarter century. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1999 as a member of the Times team that disclosed the corporate sale of American technology to China. Gerth was also the first reporter to break the Whitewater story.

Don Van Natta is an investigative correspondent for the New York Times. He has been a member of three Pulitzer Prize-winning teams, and he is the author of the New York Times bestselling First off the Tee: Presidential Hackers, Duffers and Cheaters from Taft to Bush.

Table of Contents

Foreword to the Paperback Edition     vii
A Note from the Authors     ix
Prologue: In to Win     3
First Partner
Chase and Run     13
The Art of Making Possible     23
Following the Heart to Fayetteville     38
Personal Calculations     56
Investing 101     66
Influence     77
First Lady
The Defense Team     91
The "Only Stupid Dumb Thing"     105
"Welcome to Washington"     117
The School of Small Steps     132
The Discipline of Gratitude     144
"Off to the Firing Squad"     156
The Most to Lose     170
The Most to Gain     187
New York State of Mind     199
First Woman
The Mysteries of Hillaryland     217
The Longest Day     226
"The Hardest Decision"     240
The Club     253
The War Room     263
Hillary's Quagmire     271
Warming Up to Global Warming     278
The Somewhat Lonely Middle     289
"Madam President"     299
Googled and YouTubed     307
"I Don't Feel No Ways Tired"     317
"The Best Political Spouse in the Business"     332
Epilogue: Force the Spring     340
Afterword to the Paperback Edition     347
Acknowledgments     357
Notes     360
Bibliography     430
Index     433

Editorial Reviews

In Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton, Jeff Gerth, a former reporter for The New York Times, and Don Van Natta Jr., an investigative reporter at the paper, have written what will become mandatory reading for Mrs. Clinton’s opponents.
— The New York Times

Robert Dallek