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Hillary Clinton's memoir, "Living History," chronicles her journey from suburban 1950s America to First Lady, detailing her role in politics, her marriage, and her advocacy for women's rights.

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The most formidably intelligent and high profile woman in American political life tells the story of her eight years as First Lady in an astonishingly candid book that covers both deeply personal and historically significant events.

Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions of people around the world. Yet few beyond her close friends and family have ever heard her account of her extraordinary journey. She writes with candor, humor and passion about her upbringing in suburban, middle-class America in the 1950s and her transformation from Goldwater Girl to student activist to controversial First Lady. Living History is her revealing memoir of life through the White House years. It is also her chronicle of living history with Bill Clinton, a thirty-year adventure in love and politics that survives personal betrayal, relentless partisan investigations and constant public scrutiny.

Hillary Rodham Clinton came of age during a time of tumultuous social and political change in America. Like many women of her generation, she grew up with choices and opportunities unknown to her mother or grandmother. She charted her own course through unexplored terrain -- responding to the changing times and her own internal compass -- and became an emblem for some and a lightning rod for others. Wife, mother, lawyer, advocate and international icon, she has lived through America's great political wars, from Watergate to Whitewater.

The only First Lady to play a major role in shaping domestic legislation, Hillary Rodham Clinton traveled tirelessly around the country to champion health care, expand economic and educational opportunity and promote the needs of children and families, and she crisscrossed the globe on behalf of women's rights, human rights and democracy. She redefined the position of First Lady and helped save the presidency from an unconstitutional, politically motivated impeachment. Intimate, powerful and inspiring, Living History captures the essence of one of the most remarkable women of our time and the challenging process by which she came to define herself and find her own voice -- as a woman and as a formidable figure in American politics.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton is the first woman to be nominated for president by a major political party and the winner of the national popular vote. She served as Secretary of State after nearly four decades in public service as an attorney, First Lady, and US Senator. She is married to former US President Bill Clinton and is a mother and grandmother. Visit HillaryClinton.com.

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Contents

Author's Note

An American Story

University of Life

Class of '69

Yale

Bill Clinton

Arkansas Traveler

Little Rock

Campaign Odyssey

Inauguration

East Wing, West Wing

Health Care

The End of Something

Vince Foster

The Delivery Room

Whitewater

Independent Counsel

D-Day

Midterm Break

Conversations with Eleanor

Silence Is Not Spoken Here

Oklahoma City

Women's Rights Are Human Rights

Shutdown

A Time to Speak

War Zones

Prague Summer

Kitchen Table

Second Term

Into Africa

Vital Voices

Third Way

Soldiering On

Imagine the Future

August 1998

Impeachment

Waiting for Grace

Dare to Compete

New York

Acknowledgments

Key to Photographs

Index

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