Book summaryThrough interviews with leaders in the fields of science, business, and entertainment--as well as with Washington insiders--a journalist examines the Clinton era, seeing unprecedented economic growth, achievements in technology, and a scandal-marred period of media frenzy. Johnson divides his book into four major units: Technotimes; Teletimes; Scandal Times; Millennial Times. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001. Media reviews"[A]n earnest, angry, poignant, foreboding book that tells its story through a parade of characters that seem to embody the age, for better and worse....It is testimony to Johnson's insights that this history often seems on point, even when read, as it inevitably will be, in the sad afterlight of Sept. 11." |
The Best of Times: America in the Clinton Yearsby Johnson, HaynesFirst Edition
Book desription: Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 2001. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. The Clinton Years - they were the best of times - and the worst. A time of unprecedented wealth, of breathtaking progress in technology, the world-changing internet, and the genome with the medical miracles it promised. Set against these triumphs was another America dominated by all-news TV and the gossip journalism of the Internet, driven by celebrity culture, lacking civility, racially divided, and presided over by our first Boomer leader, William Jefferson Clinton. For that first moment, when the white Bronco popped up on the nation's screens, O.J. was the ultimate TV story played out in excruciating detail. In telling that story, the author has much to say about violence, sex, race, and gossip in the media. Enter Monica, with the two witches of the tale, Linda Tripp and Lucy Goldberg, plotting to bring down the president while Vernon Jordan, the ultimate insider, works to save him. Besides these two great dramas, Johnson also writes of the Wall Street boom and the culture of instant dot-com wealth, of Hollywood and the rise of the mogul David Geffen, and concludes with an account of the Election of 2000, how the '90s made it inevitable. The product of four years of interviews with America's leaders in politics, business and science, is in the best tradition of timeless social history - a memorable portrait of the nation at a turning point. 610 pages including notes and sources, bibliography, and index. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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