Alter egos: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and the twilight struggle over American power
Alter egos: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and the twilight struggle over American power By Clinton, Hillary Rodham;Landler, Mark;Obama, Barack
2016 | 406 Pages | ISBN: 0812998855 | EPUB | 17 MB
2016 | 406 Pages | ISBN: 0812998855 | EPUB | 17 MB
The deeply reported story of two supremely ambitious figures, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton—archrivals who became partners for a time, trailblazers who share a common sense of their historic destiny but hold very different beliefs about how to project American power In Alter Egos, veteran New York Times White House correspondent Mark Landler takes us inside the fraught and fascinating relationship between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton—a relationship that has framed the nation's great debates over war and peace for the past eight years.In the annals of American statecraft, theirs was a most unlikely alliance. Clinton, daughter of an anticommunist father, was raised in the Republican suburbs of Chicago in the aftermath of World War II, nourishing an unshakable belief in the United States as a force for good in distant lands. Obama, an itinerant child of the 1970s, was raised by a single mother in Indonesia and Hawaii, suspended between...