Bill Clinton: New Gilded Age President

Bill Clinton: New Gilded Age President

Of the original Gilded Age, historian Richard Hofstadter wrote: â€œThere is no other period in the nationâ€™s history when politics seems so completely dwarfed by economic changes, none in which the life of the country rests so completely in the hands of the industrial entrepreneur.â€ The era of William Jefferson Clintonâ€™s ascent to the presidency was strikingly similarâ€”nothing less, Clinton himself said, than â€œa paradigm shift . . . from the industrial age to an information-technology age, from the Cold War to a global society.â€ How Bill Clinton met the challenges of this new Gilded Age is the subject of Patrick J. Maneyâ€™s book: an in-depth perspective on the 42nd president of the United States and the transformative era over which he presided.

Bill Clinton: New Gilded Age President goes beyond personality and politics to examine the critical issues of the day: economic and fiscal policy, business and financial deregulation, healthcare and welfare reform, and foreign affairs in a postâ€“Cold War world. But at its heart is Bill Clinton in all his guises: the first baby boomer to reach the White House; the â€œnaturalâ€â€”the most gifted politician of his generation, but one with an inexplicably careless and self-destructive streak; the â€œComeback Kid,â€ repeatedly overcoming long odds; the survivor, frequently down but never out; and, with Hillary Rodham Clinton, part of the most controversial First Couple since Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.

Maneyâ€™s book is, in sum, the most succinct and up-to-date study of the Clinton presidency, invaluable not merely for understanding a transformative era in American history, but presidential, national, and global politics today.

Country	USA
Author	Patrick J. Maney
Binding	Hardcover
EAN	9780700621941
ISBN	0700621946
Label	University Press of Kansas
Manufacturer	University Press of Kansas
MPN	25 photographs,
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	344
PartNumber	25 photographs,
PublicationDate	2016-02-15
Publisher	University Press of Kansas
ReleaseDate	2016-01-28
Studio	University Press of Kansas

Bill Clinton: New Gilded Age President

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