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President Expenses Clinton’s My Life may be the strikingly candid portrait of a worldwide leader who decided early in life to devote his intellectual and political gifts, and his extraordinary convenience of effort, to serving the general public. It shows us the progress of an amazing American, who, through their own enormous energies and efforts, made the unlikely journey from Hope, Arkansas, to the White House—a journey fueled by an impassioned curiosity about the political process which manifested itself at every stage of his life: in college, working being an intern for Senator William Fulbright; at Oxford, becoming area of the Vietnam War protest movement; at Yale Law School, campaigning on the grassroots level for Democratic candidates; in Arkansas, running for Congress, attorney-general, and governor.We see his career shaped by his resolute determination to enhance the life of his fellow citizens, an unfaltering commitment to civil-rights, and a great knowledge of the practicalities of political life.We arrived at understand the emotional pressures of his youth—born after his father’s demise; found in the dysfunctional relationship between his feisty, nurturing mother and his abusive stepfather, whom he never ceased to love and whose name he took; attracted to the brilliant, compelling Hillary Rodham, whom he was determined to marry; passionately devoted, from her infancy, for their daughter, Chelsea, and to the whole connection with fatherhood; gradually and painfully just starting to comprehend how his early denial-of pain Brought him sometimes into damaging patterns of behavior.President Clinton’s book can also be the fullest, most concretely detailed, most nuanced account of a presidency ever written—encompassing not just the high-points and crises however the way the presidency really works: the day-to-day bombardment of problems, personalities, conflicts, setbacks, achievements.It is just a testament to the positive impact on America and on the planet of his work and his ideals.It may be the gripping account of a president under concerted and unrelenting assault orchestrated by his enemies on the Far-Right, and how he survived and prevailed. It's a treasury of moments caught alive, included in this:• The five-year-old boy watching the national political conventions on his family’s new (and first) television set.• The young candidate searching for votes in the Arkansas hills and the neighborhood seer who tells him, “Anybody who'd campaign at a beer joint in Joiner at midnight on Saturday night deserves to transport one box. .