Clinton: The President They Deserve
Martin Walker
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Description for Clinton: The President They Deserve
Paperback. Bill Clinton is both a product and a manipulator of the communications media, and this biography looks inside the tactics and the representations that both the President and his wife have adopted to sway opinion in their favour. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPR; BGH; JFD; JPQ; JPVK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Scholarly. Dimension: 198 x 130. Weight in Grams: 270. Good copy with some shelf wear
As President of the one true superpower Bill Clinton is recognised from Beijing to St Petersburg, from Caracas to Johannesburg; the ruddy face, the bear-like hug, THAT hair are instantly identifiable, triggering a series of other images that have attached themselves to him during his period of office such as the smirk of alleged adulteries, the whiff of financial impropriety, the buzz of drugs for which Clinton bailed his brother out of jail. Each of these incidents has been the subject of intensve press scrutiny and speculation, and the media has heaped opprobrium on Clinton to a degree unknown previously ... Read more
As President of the one true superpower Bill Clinton is recognised from Beijing to St Petersburg, from Caracas to Johannesburg; the ruddy face, the bear-like hug, THAT hair are instantly identifiable, triggering a series of other images that have attached themselves to him during his period of office such as the smirk of alleged adulteries, the whiff of financial impropriety, the buzz of drugs for which Clinton bailed his brother out of jail. Each of these incidents has been the subject of intensve press scrutiny and speculation, and the media has heaped opprobrium on Clinton to a degree unknown previously ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099360018
SKU
KHN0001880
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99-1
About Martin Walker
Martin Walker is the US bureau chief for the Guardian, a regular commentater for CNN and a columnist for newspapers in the US, Europe and Moscow. A published novelist and poet, he was educated as a historian at Oxford at the time when Clinton was a Rhodes scholar there and at Harvard. His most recent book, The Cold War and ... Read more
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