Título:
Citizen : my life after the White House / Bill Clinton.
ISBN:
9780525521440
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Edición:
First edition.
Información de publicación:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.
©2024
Descripción física:
vi, 446 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Nota general:
Includes index.
Contenido:
Introduction -- Part I: What does a former president do? The man with no face -- The Egyptian American at the wall -- Work that follows you out of office -- President Bush 41 and the children's drawings -- New Orleans and the boats of Bayou La Batre -- Haiti and the people who keep going -- Hurricanes hit home, and Bush 41's last rodeo -- Family life goes on -- Part II: Fighting disease and poverty around the world and at home. The Clinton Foundation and the creation of CHAI -- The activists, the champions, and Bush 43's fair deal -- CGI: reinventing philanthropy, one commitment at a time -- The widow farmer and the spice traders -- Supporting health and opportunity at home -- Women and children first -- Skyscrapers and trees to the rescue -- Part III: Politics, rewriting history, and reviving the foundation in a still uncertain future. An old story in new clothes -- The senators face off -- Our first Black president and the resurgence of the hard right -- Hillary steps down and in -- Comey and Putin get into the act -- The hazards ot rewriting history -- 2017-2020: back to the foundation -- The virus that affected us all, and the virus we resisted -- Epilogue.
Síntesis:
On January 20th, 2001, after nearly thirty years in politics-eight of them as President of the United States-Bill Clinton was suddenly a private citizen. Only fifty-four years old, full of energy and ideas, he wanted to make meaningful use of his skills, his relationships with world leaders, and all he'd learned in a lifetime of politics, but how? Just days after leaving the White House, the call came to aid victims of a devastating earthquake in India, and Clinton hit the ground running. Over the next two decades, he would create an enduring legacy of public service and advocacy work, from Indonesia to Louisiana, Northern Ireland to South Africa, and in the process reimagine philanthropy and redefine the impact a former president could have on the world. Citizen is Clinton's front-row, first-person chronicle of his post-presidential years and the most significant events of the twenty-first century, including 9/11 and the runup to the Iraq War, the Haiti earthquake, the Great Recession, COVID-19, the January 6th insurrection, and the enduring culture wars of our times. Yet Citizen is more than a presidential memoir. These pages capture Clinton in a rare and unforgettable light: not only as celebrated former president and foundation leader, but also as a father, grandfather, and husband. He shares his support for Hillary Clinton during her tenure as senator, secretary of state, and presidential candidate, and openly details the frustration and pain of the 2016 election.
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on1443739732
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