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First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton Paperback - 1996

by David Maraniss

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist draws on letters, documents, and interviews to present a profile of Bill Clinton, a man whose greatest strengths are also his greatest weaknesses: a talent for politics; an eagerness to please; a tendency to share the truth; and an insatiable appetite for life and learning. of photos.


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Who exactly is Bill Clinton, and why was he, of all the brilliant and ambitious men in his generation, the first in his class to reach the White House? Drawing on hundreds of letters, documents, and interviews, David Maraniss explores the evolution of the personality of our forty-second president from his youth in Arkansas to his 1991 announcement that he would run for the nation's highest office. In this richly textured and balanced biography, Maraniss reveals a complex man full of great flaws and great talents. First in His Class is the definitive book on Bill Clinton.

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  • Title First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton
  • Author David Maraniss
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 512
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Simon & Schuster, New York
  • Date 1996-02-08
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780684818900 / 0684818906
  • Weight 1.26 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.22 x 6.2 x 1.3 in (23.42 x 15.75 x 3.30 cm)
  • Reading level 1230
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Library of Congress subjects Clinton, Bill, Presidents - United States - Biography
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95044894
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Citations

  • New York Times, 06/16/1996, Page 48

About the author

David Maraniss is an associate editor at The Washington Post and a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt University. He has won two Pulitzer Prizes for journalism and was a finalist three other times. Among his bestselling books are biographies of Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Roberto Clemente, and Vince Lombardi, and a trilogy about the 1960s--Rome 1960; Once in a Great City (winner of the RFK Book Prize); and They Marched into Sunlight (winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Prize and Pulitzer Finalist in History).
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