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  ———. “Reno Seeks a Change in Fiske’s Status.” Washington Times, July 2, 1994.

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  Author Interviews

  Roger Altman

  Ellen Chesler

  Carl Anthony

  Greg Craig

  Dick Atkinson

  Lynn Cutler

  Don Baer

  Lanny Davis

  Woody Bassett

  Oscar Dowdy

  Nancy Bekavac

  Ernest Dumas

  Lloyd Bentsen

  Betsy Johnson Ebeling

  Richard Ben-Veniste

  Tom Ebeling

  Marcia Berry

  Peter Edelman

  Carol Biondi

  Sara Ehrman

  Frank Biondi

  Rahm Emanuel

  Diane Blair

  John Emerson

  Jim Blair

  Mark Fabiani

  Linda Bloodworth-Thomason

  Connie Fails

  Tom Boggs

  Barney Frank

  Bob Boorstin

  Mary Mel French

  Robert Borosage


  Richard Friedman

  Erskine Bowles

  Andrew Friendly

  Nicole Boxer

  Kelly Crawford Friendley

  Bill Bradley

  Al From

  Max Brantley

  Mark Gearan

  Connie Bruck

  David Gergen

  Dale Bumpers

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  James Carville

  Richard Goodwin

  Stan Greenberg

  Leon Panetta

  Jim Hart

  Mark Penn

  Ann Henry

  Ann Terry Pincus

  Jean Houston

  John Podesta

  Webb Hubbell

  David Pryor

  Harold Ickes

  Molly Raiser

  Mickey Kantor

  Robert Reich

  John Kerry

  Ann Richards

  Joe Klein

  Robert Rubin

  Neel Lattimore

  Deborah Sale

  Terry McAuliffe

  Donna Shalala

  John McCain

  Geoff Shields

  Mike McCurry

  Carly Simon

  Eileen McGann

  Wendy Smith

  Mack McLarty

  Richard Stearns

  Bob McNeely

  Ann Stock

  Brian McPartlin

  Robert Strauss

  Dick Morris

  William Styron

  Lissa Muscatine

  Robert Torricelli

  Dee Dee Myers

  Robert Treuhaft

  Roy Neel

  Melanne Verveer

  Bernard Nussbaum

  David Wilhelm

  Lawrence O’Donnell

  Betsey Wright

  Kevin O’Keefe

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  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  Knopf vice president and senior editor Jonathan Segal, an incomparable editor in my view, has lent a guiding hand and been a patient teacher since I began work on this book seven years ago. He meticulously read draft after draft of its various sections, commenting on them and gently moving me towards my destination, and edging me onto the narrative path I sought. Once I was on it, he cleared away the obstacles I put in my own way (no matter how attached I was to some of them) and enabled me to better understand the character of my subject and put her story in its present context. He also became a cherished friend.

  Four remarkable young assistants helped me with the research and every other aspect of the project. This book could not have been written without them and without the good humor that accompanied their diligence, dedication, and skill. I am indebted to them: Stacy Atlas Kerzner, Amanda Ely, Kristina Goetz, and Carmen Johnson.

  At Knopf, I found a group of people who care about books in a way that to me feels unique: dedicated to maintaining the underlying values of a great tradition, and committed to cherished ideals and principles. As I discovered, part of the tradition is familial at Knopf (or, as Hillary might say, it takes a village), and begins with chairman and editor in chief Sonny Mehta, whose extraordinary faith in this project I am deeply grateful for.

  I owe special thanks to several people at Knopf: Lydia Buechler, the copy chief, who shepherded the book through the copyediting and proofreading with great care and enthusiasm, and never a word of complaint through seemingly endless hours of work; Anke Steinecke, vice president and associate counsel, for her diligence and rare legal skill that helped strengthen the manuscript; Paul Bogaards and his promotion staff; Nina Bourne, a friend of many, many years who I was never lucky enough to work with until now; Kyle McCarthy, who as Jon Segal’s assistant became an integral participant; Carol Shookhoff, who typed the manuscript and made helpful suggestions along the way; Fred Chase, a copyeditor whose skills and great care I came to hold in awe; Carol Carson, Knopf’s art director; Avery Flück, the production manager; Virginia Tan, the book’s designer; and Carol Janeway, the wonderful foreign rights director.

  My agent, Owen Laster, of William Morris, is likewise rooted in the best traditions of his craft; he recently retired, but leaves a standard that is a tribute to his geniality and consummate professionalism.

  Special thanks to Louis Plummer, Doug Hill, and Kate Griffin of PhotoAssist; and Dr. John Barrie for his insight and help.

  I could not have completed this book without the help and isolation of Yaddo, a remarkable institution that gives writers and artists a contemplative opportunity to proceed and succeed. I was introduced to Yaddo by my friend Suzy Crile. There, I made another great friend for life, Elena Richardson, Yaddo’s president. I cannot give enough thanks to Candace Wait, her husband, Charles, and Kathy Clarke, all of whom are dedicated to Yaddo’s mission.

  For thirty-five years now Bob Woodward and I have conducted an ongoing dialogue about our work and our lives—a source of great satisfaction.

  I owe special thanks to my sons, Max and Jacob Bernstein, who had reached the age during my work on this book where their encouragement and criticism were both helpful and loving at the same time; special thanks also go to Thea Stone. My thanks also to my sisters, Mary Bernstein Hunter and Laura Bernst
ein Ikonen. My parents, Al and Sylvia Bernstein, both died before the book was finished, but their ideals inform all that I believe in. My mother, through the eight years of the Clinton presidency, worked as a volunteer in a group of retired women who sorted and helped answer Hillary’s routine mail; she is not the source of a single word in this book. I miss her and my dad more than words can say.

  I want to express my love and constant gratitude to Christine Kuehbeck, my wife, at whom I wonder every day. She is the person to whom I look for wisdom I find nowhere else; that has been especially true in every aspect of this book. Christine read these pages with a woman’s eye. She raised questions and posed notions that would never have occurred to me—as she always does. She brings unusual insight and perception to all the subjects we endlessly discuss, and brings those qualities—and her unabashed enthusiasm—to the whole of our lives together.

  A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Carl Bernstein, with Bob Woodward, shared a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of Watergate for the Washington Post. He is the author, with Woodward, of All the President’s Men and The Final Days, and, with Marco Politi, of His Holiness: John Paul II and the History of Our Time. He is also the author of Loyalties, a memoir about his parents during McCarthy-era Washington. He has written for Vanity Fair (he is also a contributing editor), Time, USA Today, Rolling Stone, and The New Republic. He was a Washington bureau chief and correspondent for ABC News. He lives with his wife, Christine, in New York.

  *1Ebeling is Betsy’s married name. Her maiden name was Johnson.

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  *2How severely Hugh Rodham beat his children has never been directly addressed publicly by Hillary, her brothers, or her mother.