Alter egos Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and the twilight struggle over American power
"New York Times White House correspondent Mark Landler goes behind the speeches and press conferences, to the Situation Room debates and picnic-table lunches, where Obama and Clinton honed their two competing worldviews: his, cautious, inward-looking, suffused with a sense of limits; hers, musc...
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WH Allen
[2016]
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| Zusammenfassung: | "New York Times White House correspondent Mark Landler goes behind the speeches and press conferences, to the Situation Room debates and picnic-table lunches, where Obama and Clinton honed their two competing worldviews: his, cautious, inward-looking, suffused with a sense of limits; hers, muscular, optimistic, unabashedly old-fashioned. Alter Egos is about two ambitious political archrivals from very different backgrounds who became partners for a time, trailblazers who share a common sense of their historical destiny but who hold fundamentally different beliefs about how to project American power. With all the sweep of a grand history...and enlivened by an insider's access and plenty of news...Landler digs deep into the complex relationship between these two leaders and gives us a different way to think about Obama's legacy and Clinton's promise"... |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-357) and index |
| Beschreibung: | xxiii, 406 Seiten, 4 ungezählte Blätter Bildtafeln 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780753556887 9780753556870 |