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""The Agenda" is a great read.... The pace is fast, the quotes are crisp, and the scenes are often dramatic.... Spellbinding political drama."
-- "The Philadelphia Inquirer"
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Working behind the scenes for the eighteen months following Bill Clinton's election, conducting hundreds of interviews with administration insiders and other key officials, and gaining access to confidential internal memos, diaries, and meeting notes, Bob Woodward has discovered how the Clinton White House really works. Clinton's pledge for a new economic deal was the cornerstone of his 1992 campaign, and fulfilling it has been his central ambition and enterprise as president. By focusing on Clinton's efforts to pass a comprehensive economic recovery plan, Woodward takes us not only to the highest level meetings, the hard-fought debates, and the most difficult decisions but also to the very heart of this presidency - and of this man. With its day-by-day, often minute-by-minute account, it is one of the most intimate portraits of a sitting president ever published. President Clinton is shown as he debates, scolds, pleads, celebrates, and rages in anger and frustration. What emerges also is a group portrait of Clinton's innermost circle of advisers in action - including his wife, Hillary; Vice President Al Gore; Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen and the economic team; George Stephanopoulos and David Gergen and the White House staff; James Carville, Paul Begala, and the other outside political strategists; Congressional leaders; and Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. Using his proven research method - returning time and again to key sources and relying on the paper trail of internal documentation - Woodward has assembled an extensive archive of the early Clinton presidency. This microscopic examination of the Clintons and this administration, working under pressure on the nation'smost important task, reveals the deep and still unsettled conflicts among President Clinton's advisers and within himself. The questions about the federal deficit, health care, welfare reform, taxes, jobs, government spending, interest rates, the roles and responsibilities of the mi
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is the first Bob Woodward book I have read, and I was impressed by his vivid, down to earth writing style.
What shocked me about the events described is the way Clinton's legislative programme was killed off in his first 100 days in office, mainly by the lack of Senate support from his own party.
Time after time we read of humiliating meetings where he tries to offer compromises to Democratic Senators in exchange for their support ( these meetings were rarely successful).
There is no evidence of a "Whips Office" or any other means of compelling them to vote the party line.
The impression created is that US Senators see themselves primarily as one man pressure groups for local interests, Democrat and Republican are merely labels of convenience, and do not carry any obligation of party loyalty.
Clinton himself seems likable but weak, tending to hold the opinions of the last person he spoke to.
All in all, an excellent book. I will certainly read more by this author.
What shocked me about the events described is the way Clinton's legislative programme was killed off in his first 100 days in office, mainly by the lack of Senate support from his own party.
Time after time we read of humiliating meetings where he tries to offer compromises to Democratic Senators in exchange for their support ( these meetings were rarely successful).
There is no evidence of a "Whips Office" or any other means of compelling them to vote the party line.
The impression created is that US Senators see themselves primarily as one man pressure groups for local interests, Democrat and Republican are merely labels of convenience, and do not carry any obligation of party loyalty.
Clinton himself seems likable but weak, tending to hold the opinions of the last person he spoke to.
All in all, an excellent book. I will certainly read more by this author.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio Cassette
Once again Bob Woodward has managed to produce a first-rate narrative on intricate political matters. He cuts through the smoke surrounding the Clinton whitehouse and examines what the goals where, whether or not they where achieved, and when not. It is in this regard that his talent for personal faults and misjudgements comes to its full use. One would only wish that he had taken a bit moretime to examine the motives and judgement of Mr. Clinton.
Format:Paperback
For a book that will certainly serve as a primary source for presidential historians because of its insider reporting, this book is extremely disappointing and indeed superficial. You get a kind of blow by blow report of Clinton's tumultuous first year in the White House with virtually no analysis and context, but instead just raw description. I was appalled at how much trash was in it.
The one nugget I took away was that in that first year, Clinton spent too much time chatting with aides due to his "lack of discipline" and enjoyment of exercising his mind with the extraordinary grasp he had of policy. But there is no exploration of his character, and indeed ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about the details of the policies he was attempting to advance. As such, this book is like so much election journalism of today: covering the horse race but not the issues.
Not recommended, except for academics doing deep research.
The one nugget I took away was that in that first year, Clinton spent too much time chatting with aides due to his "lack of discipline" and enjoyment of exercising his mind with the extraordinary grasp he had of policy. But there is no exploration of his character, and indeed ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about the details of the policies he was attempting to advance. As such, this book is like so much election journalism of today: covering the horse race but not the issues.
Not recommended, except for academics doing deep research.
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