On the Make : The Rise of Bill Clinton

Washington, DC, U.S.A.: Regnery Publishing, Incorporated, An Eagle Publishing Company, 1994. Second Printing . Hard Back. Fine/Very Good. 6" x 9. 591 Pages Indexed. Center section of black and white photographs. Dust jacket price $24.95 is unclipped. Published at the end fo the first two years of Clinton's presidency authored by an Arkansas journalist who followed Bill Clinton in his political rise from Arkansas to Washington. For 13 years-beginning with his first days as Arkansas's governor--Meredith Oakley and Bill Clinton spoke daily. It was the first biography to give a real sense of who Clinton was, where he came from, and where he was heading. Oakkley describes his rise to power as a dizzying combination of personal charm, shrewd alliances, steadfast loyalties, timely abandonments, promises, evasions, contradicidtons, and the most import element of all: his seeming incongruous unhappy, yet strangely successful marriage to Hillary Clinton. Their marriage has brought hem to the pinnacle of power --- a power shared in a manner unprecedented in American history. Oakely described Clinton in 1994 as a perplexing mix of private flaws and political brilliance. He is also a master of personal relations, a skill that may, paradoxically, lead to his undoing. Contents in 25 Chapters: Road to the White HOuse, An American myth, Off and Running, A Private War, Mobilizing Against the Draft, Partners in Time, Learning the Ropes, Bill Thinks Bill Feels Bill Does, On Track at Last, Pretty Faces, Warm Witty Ever Mindful of Names, The Children's Crusade, Snakebit in Arkansas, The Boad Back, The Education Governor, Finishing the Job, Wheeling and Dealing, No Way to Run, Mortgaging the Promnised Land, Southern Strategy, Promise Broken Promise Seen, Taking Care of Business, Vietnam Revisited, Hillary's Contribution, and Whitewater Women and the White House.