A Woman in Charge

  But soon thereafter…at him: Author’s interview with confidential White House sources.

  “My family can…that”: Todd Purdum, “Siblings Who Often Emerge in an Unflattering Spotlight,” New York Times, February 23, 2001.

  “They’re like mama’s…brothers’”: Ibid.

  “a workhorse not a show horse”: Helen Dewar, “Clinton Tries to Be Just Another Freshman,” Washington Post, December 6, 2000.

  “We’re in real trouble…Count me in…York”: Joshua Green, “Take Two,” The Atlantic Monthly, November 2006.

  “Because bipartisan support…And perhaps…behind them”: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Speech to the U.S. Senate, October 10, 2002.

  “If I had…the authority”: Cal Thomas, “Hillary Is No Bill,” Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, Florida), February 7, 2007, p. 25A.

  “Well, I’ve said that…their work”: Green, “Take Two.”

  “Her perspective is…WMD”: Author’s interview with confidential source.

  “That’s what Bush…were making”: Green, “Take Two.”

  “You are not…candor”: Author’s interview with confidential source.

  It is clear…her position: Author’s interviews with Hillary Clinton’s campaign aides.

  “Her handling of…herself”: Author’s interview with confidential source.

  “I don’t know…thinks”: Author’s interview with confidential source.

  “The only major…flag”: Author’s interview with confidential source.

  “It was a campaign document”: Author’s interview with Neel Lattimore.

  “Let’s talk…mine”: “Senator Clinton’s Statement About Her Candidacy for President,” Associated Press, January 20, 2007.

  “I’m in…win”: www.hillaryclinton.com.

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  The bibliography includes only those books and articles cited in the notes.

  Books

  Albright, Madeleine. Madam Secretary. New York: Hyperion, 2003.

  Baker, Peter. The Breach: Inside the Impeachment and Trial of William Jefferson Clinton. New York: Scribner, 2000.

  Blumenthal, Sidney. The Clinton Wars. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003.

  Brock, David. The Seduction of Hillary Rodham. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.

  Clinton, Bill. My Life. New York: Knopf, 2004.

  Clinton, Hillary Rodham. It Takes a Village. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.

  ———. Living History. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.

  Cook, Blanche Wiesen. Eleanor Roosevelt. New York: Viking, 1999.

  Drew, Elizabeth. On the Edge. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.

  Dumas, Ernest. The Clintons of Arkansas. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1993.

  Gergen, David. Eyewitness to Power. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.

  Goldman, Peter, Thomas M. DeFrank, Mark Miller, Andrew Murr, and Tom Mathews, Quest for the Presidency 1992. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1994.

  Harris, John F. The Survivor. New York: Random House, 2005.

  Hubbell, Webb. Friends in High Places. New York: William Morrow, 1997.

  Johnson, Haynes, and David S. Broder. The System. New York: Little, Brown, 1997.

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  Klein, Joe. The Natural. New York: Doubleday, 2002.

  Maraniss, David. First in His Class. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.

  Milton, Joyce. The First Partner. New York: William Morrow, 1999.

  Morris, Dick. Behind the Oval Office. Los Angeles: Renaissance, 1999.

  ———. Rewriting History. New York: HarperCollins, 2004.

  Morris, Roger. Partners in Power. Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 1996.

  Oppenheimer, Jerry. State of a Union. New York: HarperCollins, 2000.

  Radcliffe, Donnie. Hillary Rodham Clinton. New York: Warner, 1993.

  Reich, Robert. Locked in the Cabinet. New York: Vintage, 1998.

  Schmidt, Susan, and Michael Weisskopf. Truth at Any Cost. New York: HarperCollins, 2000.

  Sheehy, Gail. Hillary’s Choice. New York: Ballantine, 1999.

  Stephanopoulos, George. All Too Human. New York: Little, Brown, 1999.

  Stewart, James B. Blood Sport. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.

  Toobin, Jeffrey. A Vast Conspiracy. New York: Random House, 1999.

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  White, Theodore H. The Making of the President. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, 1961.

  Woodward, Bob. The Agenda. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.

  ———. Shadow. New York: Touchstone, 1999.

  Articles

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  Associated Press. “Columnist Strikes Back at President: Snowballs at 40 Paces.” January 10, 1996.

  Associated Press. “Senator Clinton’s Statement About Her Candidacy for President.” January 20, 2007.

  Associated Press. “White House: Clinton Told Money Offered Troopers to Talk of Affairs.” December 21, 1993.

  Babcock, Charles R., and Michael Weisskopf. “Change of Party, Same Game: Fund-Raising Keeps Its Prominence.” Washington Post, January 15, 1993, p. 1.

  Baker, Peter, and Juliet Eilperin. “Clinton Impeached: House Approves Articles Charging Perjury, Obstruction; Mostly Partisan Vote Shifts Drama to Senate.” Washington Post, December 20, 1998.

  Ball, Karen. “Clinton Knows His Message Isn’t Getting Out.” Associated Press, May 22, 1992.

  ———. “First Lady Opens Health Hearings: Wows Lawmakers, Answers Doubts.” Associated Press, September 28, 1993.

  ———. “Sorting Through the Competing Health Care Bills: A Primer.” Associated Press, October 11, 1993.

  Balz, Dan. “GOP Assailed for Attacks on Clintons.” Washington Post, March 12, 1994.

  ———. “Hill Democrats View Speech as a Failure.” Washington Post, August 20, 1998.

  Balz, Dan, and Edward Walsh. “Clinton’s Wife Finds She’s Become Issue: Arkansas Lawyer Denies Impropriety but Vows to Rethink Her Role.” Washington Post, March 17, 1992, p. 1.

  Baquet, Dean, Jeff Gerth, and Stephen Labaton. “Top Arkansas Lawyer Helped Hillary Clinton Turn Big Profit.” New York Times, March 18, 1994, p. 1.

  Barnes, Bart. “Barry Goldwater, GOP Hero, Dies.” Washington Post, May 30, 1998.

  Barnes, Steve. “McDougal Trial Sees Mrs. Clinton’s Videotape.” New York Times, March 17, 1999.

  Barringer, Felicity. “The President-Elect’s Wife; Hillary Clinton’s New Role: The Job Description Is Open.” New York Times, November 16, 1992, p. 1.

  Bass, Carole. “Rights of Passage.” Connecticut Law Tribune, October 12, 1992.

  Bennet, James. “Clinton Reported as Very Troubled.” New York Times, December 19, 1998.

  Berger, Joseph. “Performing Séances? No, Just ‘Pushing the Membrane of the Possible.’” New York Times, June 25, 1996, p. 13.

  Berke, Richard L. “Clinton Eulogizes Father-in-Law with Humor at Little Rock Service.” New York Times, April 10, 1993.

  ———. “The Other Clinton Helps Shape the Administration.” New York Times, December 14, 1992, p. 6.

  ———. “Party Attacking Clintons’ Critics.” New York Times, March 13, 1994, p. 25.

  ———. “President Weighs Admitting He Had Sexual Contacts.” New York Times, August 14, 1998.

  Bernstein, Carl. Washington Post.

  Bernstein, Richard. “A Few Hints on Nurture from the First Lady.” New York Times, February 5, 1996.

  Boyer, Peter J. “Life After Vince.” The New Yorker, September 11, 1995.

  Brant, Martha. “Life in Hillary Clinton’s ‘Village’: In a Shadow of Scandals, First Lady Pursues Her Activism with Zeal of a Missionary.” Austin American-Statesman, January 9, 1996.

  Brant, Martha, and Evan Thomas. “First Fighter.” Newsweek,
January 15, 1996.

  Brock, David. “Confessions of a Right-Wing Hit Man.” Esquire, July 1997.

  ———. “Living with the Clintons: Bill’s Arkansas Bodyguards Tell the Story the Press Missed.” The American Spectator, January 1994.

  Broder, David. “The Press After the Stakeout: Questions of Policy, Record—and Character—Need to Be Better Explored.” Washington Post, May 12, 1987, p. 19.

  Broder, David S., and Dana Priest. “As Momentum Slows, Clintons Said to Be Eager to Submit Health Care Bill.” Washington Post, October 14, 1993.

  Broder, Jonathan. “Gingrich’s Impeachment Scenario.” Salon, April 29, 1998.

  Bruck, Connie. “Hillary the Pol.” The New Yorker, May 30, 1993.

  Burros, Marian. “High Calories (and Chef!), Out at White House.” New York Times, March 5, 1994, p. 6.

  ———. “Hillary Clinton’s New Home: Broccoli’s In, Smoking’s Out.” New York Times, February 2, 1993, p. 1.

  ———. “Social Scene: A Highly Sensitive Post Is Filled by the Clintons.” New York Times, January 12, 1993, p. 18.

  Cimons, Marlene. “Hugh Rodham, First Lady’s Father, Dies.” Los Angeles Times, April 8, 1993, p. 7.

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  Clines, Francis X. “Hillary Clinton Tells Grand Jury She Cannot Account for Records.” New York Times, January 27, 1996.

  Clinton, Hillary Rodham. “Children Under the Law.” Harvard Educational Review, 1974.

  ———. “Good Marriages Are More Than a Piece of Paper.” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, October 8, 1995, p. 2.

  ———. “The War on America’s Children.” Newsday, March 12, 1995.

  “Clinton at Yale.” New York Times, October 14, 2001, p. 7.

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  ———. “Hillary Clinton Accuses Insurers of Lying About Health Proposal.” New York Times, November 2, 1993.

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  Devroy, Ann, and Ruth Marcus. “Clinton Takes Oath as 42nd President Asking Sacrifice, Promising Renewal: ‘Era of Deadlock and Drift Is Over.’” Washington Post, January 21, 1993, p. 1.

  Dewar, Helen. “Clinton Tries to Be Just Another Freshman.” Washington Post, December 6, 2000.

  ———. “Lott Retreats from Criticism of Airstrikes: Senate Majority Leader Calls for ‘United Front’ a Day After Questioning Attack’s Timing.” Washington Post, December 18, 1998.

  Dowd, Maureen. “First Lady Takes Stage, Ending Era on the Hill.” New York Times, September 29, 1993.

  ———. “The New Presidency: Boxes Bulging with Decades of Clinton’s Life Await Journey into History.” New York Times, January 14, 1993, p. 11.

  ———. “White House Memo: Hillary Clinton’s Debut Dashes Doubts on Clout.” New York Times, February 8, 1993, p. 14.

  Dowd, Maureen, and Frank Rich. “The Boomers’ Ball: Picking Up the Perks of Presidential Power.” New York Times, January 21, 1993, p. 11.

  Duffy, Michael. “That Sinking Feeling; Is Clinton Up to the Job? As a Staff Shake-up Begins and His Four-Month Approval Ratings Dip to Record Lows, Americans Are Starting to Wonder.” Time, June 7, 1993.

  Duston, Diane. “Hillary Clinton’s Traditional Seat at Swearing-In Belies Her Future Role.” Associated Press, January 20, 1993.

  Edelman, Marian Wright. “Say No to This Welfare ‘Reform.’” Washington Post, November 3, 1995.

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  “Excerpts from Hillary Clinton’s News Session on Whitewater.” New York Times, April 23, 1994.

  Feinsilber, Mike. “She Made Her Case in a Lawyerly Manner.” Associated Press, September 28, 1993.

  “First Lady to Spend 2 Weeks in S. Asia.” USA Today, March 20, 1995.

  Gelb, Leslie H. “Foreign Affairs, Untruths…” New York Times, October 27, 1991, p. 15.

  Gerth, Jeff, and Stephen Engelberg. “U.S. Investigating Clinton’s Links to Arkansas S&L.” New York Times, November 2, 1993, p. 20.

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  Grove, Lloyd. “It Isn’t Easy Being Right: At the Conservative Confab, Out of Sorts About Who’s in Power.” Washington Post, February 14, 1994.

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  Gutterman, Steve. “Most Coloradans Support Military Action in Iraq: Many Question Timing.” Associated Press, December 17, 1998.

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  Harris, John F., and Juliet Eilperin. “Clinton Allies Seek Compromise on Hill: GOP Pursues Vote on Inquiry; Lawyers Cite Starr’s Omissions.” Washington Post, September 23, 1998, p. 1.

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  Henderson, Nell. “Clinton Leads Nation in Paying Homage to King.” Washington Post, January 19, 1993, p. 1.

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  Kasindorf, Martin. “Meet Hillary Clinton: She’s Raised Hackles and Hopes, but One Thing’s Certain: She’ll Redefine Role of First Lady.” Newsday, January 10, 1993.

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  Kelly, Michael, and Maureen Dowd. “The Company He Keeps.” New York Times, January 17, 1993, p. 20.

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The Body Count.” Newsweek, August 7, 1995, p. 34.

  ———. “Eight Years: Bill Clinton and the Politics of Persistence.” The New Yorker, October 16, 2000.

  Kramer, Michael. “The Political Interest: Still Waiting for Bill’s Call.” Time, February 1, 1993, p. 37.

  Kurtz, Howard. “ABC News Plunges into Whitewater.” Washington Post, February 11, 1994.

  ———. “In a Blizzard of Allegations, Did the Media Throw Caution to the Wind?” Washington Post, January 27, 1998.

  ———. “Journalist in the Crossfire: David Brock Decries Personal Attacks by Columnists.” Washington Post, January 13, 1994.

  ———. “Portraits of a First Lady: Media Strive to Define Hillary Clinton.” Washington Post, November 21, 1992, p. 1.

  Lauter, David. “Clinton’s In-Laws Drop Corporate Party Plans.” Los Angeles Times, January 15, 1993, p. 24.

  Lelyveld, Nita. “In America’s Magazines, Hillary Clinton Gets (A Teeny Bit), More Personal.” Associated Press, May 8, 1993.

  Los Angeles Times, January 21, 1993, p. 1.

  Maraniss, David. “The Hearings End Much as They Began.” Washington Post, June 19, 1996.

  ———. “The Woman Who Shaped the President Dies in Her Sleep.” Washington Post, January 7, 1994, p. 1.

  Marcus, Ruth. “Clinton Angrily Denounces Republicans: Party Is ‘Committed to Politics of Personal Destruction,’ President Says.” Washington Post, March 15, 1994.

  ———. “First Lady ‘Committed’ to Her Marriage: Aide Says President ‘Misled’ His Wife on Lewinsky Relationship.” Washington Post, August 19, 1998.

  ———. “Now, ‘A Different Kind of First Lady.’” Washington Post, January 20, 1993, p. 20.

  Marcus, Ruth, and Thomas B. Edsall. “Jordan Gives Beleaguered President His Presence.” Washington Post, January 23, 1998, p. 1.

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