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Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton Paperback – April 7, 2008

by Jeff Gerth (Author), Don Van Natta Jr. (Author)
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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.
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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.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Back Bay Books; Reprint edition (April 7, 2008)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 464 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0316017434
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0316017435
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1.17 x 8.25 inches
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    Don Van Natta Jr. is an award-winning senior writer for ESPN who contributes to the network's Emmy Award-winning show, "Outside the Lines." He is also the host and executive producer of "Backstory," a ESPN docuseries with episodes available to watch anytime on ESPN+. For four consecutive years, Van Natta's longform writing for ESPN was published in The Best American Sports Writing. In 2018, several pieces about the NFL by Van Natta, co-authored with his colleague Seth Wickersham, were finalists for a National Magazine Award; two of their pieces appeared in The Best American Magazine Writing 2018.

    He joined ESPN in January 2012 after spending 16 years as an investigative reporter at The New York Times, where he was twice a member of Pulitzer Prize-winning teams. At The Times, Van Natta was based in Washington, DC, London, New York and Miami. He began his career at The Miami Herald, where he worked for eight years. At The Herald, he was a member of a team of reporters awarded the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for coverage of Hurricane Andrew. Van Natta wrote a first-person piece for the Herald about riding out Hurricane Andrew in a Florida City motel that was destroyed by the storm's 165 miles per hour winds.

    Van Natta is the author of three books, two of which were New York Times bestsellers: First Off the Tee (2003) about Presidential golf and Her Way (2007), an investigative biography of Hillary Clinton co-authored with Jeff Gerth. Van Natta's third and most recent book, Wonder Girl: The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias, won the United States Golf Association's Herbert Warren Wind Book Award in 2012. First Off the Tee was translated into four languages; Her Way was translated into seven languages.

    In 2016, the Society of Professional Journalists named Van Natta a "Fellow of the Society," its highest honor recognizing "the highest standards" and "extraordinary contributions to the profession of journalism." He is also the founder of The Sunday Long Read newsletter, a popular weekly curation of the best longform journalism, and the co-host of The Sunday Long Read Podcast.

    He is a graduate of Don Bosco Prep in Ramsey, NJ and Boston University. In 2000, Van Natta received a Distinguished Alumni Award from BU's College of Communication. In 2018, Van Natta was inducted into Don Bosco Prep's Hall of Fame.

    Van Natta lives in Miami with his wife, Washington Post contributing columnist Lizette Alvarez, their two daughters, Isabel and Sofia, and their pair of rescue black labs, Marley and Bailey.

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Christopher G. Lamantia
4.0 out of 5 stars HRC - a life in politics
Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2008
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The Book: Not a Hillary (or Clinton) bashing book at all - very fair.
Its a well written, well researched compilation of the life and political career of HRC. They left nothing out. I even printed a Clinton White House time-line just to keep up with some of the chapters that jumped around a bit.
I learned allot about today's politics in Washington. How polititicians constantly position themselves on the issues in order to remain in good standing with their constituents and keep their jobs. The book makes it clear that the Clintons (especially Hillary) do this more profoundly then anyone one else. They have crafted it into an art form consisting of lying, telling half-truths, only taking partial responsibility (if any at all) on things gone wrong, blaming others, etc.

Yet somehow the authors can't avoid including details about the massive amount of energy, intelligence, education, connections, leadership skills, dedication and endless campaigning and speech writing it takes for people in the congressional arena to debate, argue and fight over issues they represent. In this sense i was taken aback somewhat by the amount of time these people put into public service - even in the face of what might be considered selfish motives, ambitions and ideals.

I thought the authors managed to brilliantly adhere Her story to the quote by Bertrand Russell which opens Part I: "It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals."

This is HRC. For as smart as people say she is, this book shows her faults and bad decision making. The experience she brags about is nothing more than her cunningness, and experience in how to maneuver her way through the congressional labyrinth of rules, laws and regulations. The power she wields comes from the ability to maintain a staggering network of extremely loyal staff, rich and influential friends.

To quote the Book:
"The strategy Hillary developed in college to restore her sense of confidence and balance by refusing to look within has helped sustain her through a life of incredible accomplishment and heartbreak. But it has also resulted in a forced, artificial demeanor, a reinforced tendency toward arrogance and a belief that she is immune to the rules, and a sense that anyone who disagrees must be an enemy."
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P. J. Ricci
5.0 out of 5 stars Lady Macbeth is revealed truthfully
Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2007
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This book is an honest and truthful description of a dangerous woman. Her lust for power is as big as her ego. She will say anything to get elected. And the media gives her a pass on everything.(Even Amazon is pushing Bernstein's book over this one.) They fawn and kiss all over her. Why? Her strategy. She refuses to give interviews to any reporter that writes anything critical about her. You become a "non-person." "Big Mama" says you don't exist. She and Bill don't tolerate criticism. ("doesn't work and play well with others.")Unless it is outright fullblown praise they can't stand it.
Who has the worst temper? Bill or Hillary? Ask George Stephanopolous.
She eviscerated him in public. So he suddenly quit. Good for you,George. Nobody has to take that unprofessional conduct from "Lady macbeth."
Liberals, when they hate the truth, ALWAYS attack the person. So? Here you go...I'll give something ,that is not too farfetched, to attack me over.
Imagine, Bill padding around the White House, in his pj's,nothing to do, trolling for female interns. Boy, I would sure hate to have a 19 yo daughter working in Washington. I'd be worried sick over her safety.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Great book, but it arrived with a torn cover
Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2015
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Great book, but it arrived with a torn cover. I bought it to give as a gift, but obviously i can't.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2017
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to old for this time in history.
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H. Goldman
4.0 out of 5 stars Why HRC had the right stuff
Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2017
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A full-length exhaustive biography of HRC by an investigative reporter who does NOT find any evidence to support Trump's defamations and lies.
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HAROLD J. REYNOLDS
2.0 out of 5 stars A SELF-FLAGELLANT'S DELIGHT
Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2007
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Jeff Garth and Don Van Natta have labored hard to produce Her Way, their portrait of a cold, severe, dominating, power-obsessed Hillary Clinton. In a note posted at the beginning of the book, they complain that Hillary is reachable only through her loyal intermediaries who are fearful of retribution by her should they speak to the authors. The authors apparently believe that, had Hillary been deranged enough to speak to them, they would have laid even more before us. Nevertheless, those self-flaggelants who read Her Way from beginning to end, however small their number, will be grateful to the authors for their 483 pages of plain, reportorial prose, untouched by literary merit, colorless like the Hillary they repeatedly describe, the text as lively as a baggage receipt. To all others, take caution: do not read the book while seated in a rocking chair before an open fire. After a hundred or so pages you may reach the tipping point and end up as an index number in the Surrogate's Court.
Hillary is born in 1947 on page 14 and in 8 pages enters Wellesley where, as if genetically programmed, she becomes a whirlwind of political activity, president of the student government and, as senior student speaker at her 1969 commencement, gains national attention by turning, without forewarning, upon the invited speaker, hapless U.S. Senator Edward Brooke, calling him to account for his failure to speak on Vietnam and civil rights.
Yale Law School follows in 1969. Hillary develops an all consuming interest in children's rights, falls in love with fellow student Bill Clinton in 1970, and lives with him in 1971. Graduating in 1973, she becomes at 26 one of 43 staffers of the House Nixon impeachment inquiry. She joins Bill in Arkansas in 1974 where, in their mid-twenties, they enter, say the authors, into "a secret pact of ambition to capture the presidency for Bill" and "to do whatever it took to win election and defeat their opponents. Bill would be the project's public face, of course. And Hillary would serve as the enterprise's behind the scenes manager and enforcer". They are married in October, 1974, by a Reverend Nixon, proof, perhaps, of God's dark sense of humor.
Reaching into the trash basket of history, the authors call on stage names mercifully now only cardboard pop-ups in memory: Jim McDougal, White River, Madison Guaranty, Rose Law Firm, righteous Kenneth Starr, smiling Monica Lewinsky and her historically famous semen-stained dress, Hillary's billing records, Paula Jones, the tragic suicide of Vincent Foster, the masked right wing conspiracy, humble Bill and his White House fly act, and, most of all, those justice loving people who, if it meant only their holding of a spike in place, were enfevered to bring the judgment of God down upon the Clintons. Looking back, few can recall the why of it all. Many, indeed, today may wonder in a free moment over their lack of compassion for the Clintons as they were tracked, trapped, and tormented.
Transfixed by the Clinton's 1974 "secret pact" to gain the presidency, the authors excitedly report that in 1993 the Clintons planned two terms for Bill and, later, two for Hillary. For proof they offer purported statements of Leon Panetta and Taylor Branch. Panetta, Bill's former presidential chief of staff, has issued no statement in support , while Branch, a much respected historian and author, denounced their story as "preposterous". (Michael Tomasky, Can We Know Her?, NY Rev. Books, July 19, 2007, pp. 14, 15) Rare the reader who does not laugh at the authors' boasting of their alleged "discovery" of a "secret pact" the rumors of which had long travelled the rounds of Washington. (Jennifer Senior, NY Times Book Rev., July 15, 2007, 8, 9)
Following the book's publication, Van Natta said "...we don't make any judgment that it's a bad thing or a good thing. We simply report this. This is news." (MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews, June 12, 2007 edition) Their "news", however, is that Bonnie and Clyde have been planning a long time to come to town and strong arm anyone barring their way into the White House.
Her Way accelerates with details of Kenneth Starr's unyielding pursuit, Hillary's incredible power over national policy issues, her disastrous handling of her health care plan, Bill's outrageous pretense of ignorance of the Rwanda genocide (erroneously measured by the authors as "a few weeks" instead of three months), and the Clinton's low bred fund raising activities (Want a White House cup of coffee for big bucks, or do you have bigger bucks for a sleep over in Lincoln's bedroom?). Particularly revealing is Hillary's back stage maneuvering for a New York Senate seat while a simple, good hearted America saw her only as the icon of a grieving, loyal wife, defending a repentant husband caught in his adulteries and perjuries, to say nothing of his wholesale, bold face lying to the entire nation. There is mordant humor to be found in the failed impeachment proceedings, the Starr Report's overly detailed descriptions of Bill's sexual conduct, that must have made the Clintons run for cover, followed surprisingly by the public's warm hearted support of Bill and the public's acknowledgment that Hillary, after all, actually had human feelings. Still, Bill hardly looked attractive leaving office after dealing with the substantial risk of a federal indictment for perjury and obstruction of justice, to say nothing of his issuance of 140 scandal tainted pardons as he fleet footed it down the White House steps.
It was a good point in Her Way to turn the camera on Hillary in the Senate where she has sat supported by both her staff and her unequalled personal political organization, oiled and fired 24/7 to win her the presidency. Here are areas of interest to the uninformed reader, areas that disclose fault lines in Hillary's character. The authors succeed in revealing her dead-pan skill for marketing her history of major mistakes with a certain fondness for tempering discretion with deceit. For example, they zero in on her reckless failure to read the entire National Intelligence Estimate that made war against Iraq less lawful than Bush claimed. They point to her adoption of Bush's false claim of an Al Quaeda-Iraq relationship and its tie to 9/11. She was so anxious to show her capacity for military leadership that she didn't do the due diligence required for dealing with the one decision that she considered the most important in her life.
She appeared before the Council of Foreign Relations mouthing Bush-like statements but, as the war turned about, and the prospect of the presidency began to whet her appetite, she mischaracterized the intelligence available to her in the National Intelligence Estimate and, the authors argue, twisted the meaing of the war resolution in order to blame Bush for having misled her to support the war he planned. Howevermuch Her Way fails as a biographical work of literature, it hits its target here, for a weakness to dodge truth instead of admitting major error is fatal to any candidate for the presidency. It leads people to live daily in the light of false dawns, a curse no nation deserves.
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