The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House
by Bob Woodward
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Author: Bob WoodwardEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-11-01
ISBN: 0743274075
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Book Review: exxcellent
Summary: 4 Stars
Love the Clinton era or bristle at the sight of bubba's face, you can't deny the Agenda being a fantastic book.
Bob Woodward has been our Washington Insider and technical analyist since he broke Watergate with Carl Bernstien in the early 1970s. Here, he takes on the early Clinton White House, the massive and neive ambition, and what went wrong.
Clinton came to DC with hopes of fixing the ecconomy, passing national healthcare, and rebuilding the US infastracture. (Does this ring a 2010 bell?) But he bought with him a young staff, a loose management style, and a massive ego--he wanted to be at the center of the process, and not delegate power. Clinton tried to work like JFK did. In 1961 with a cold war world run through telexes and little international phone system, this was possible, but not in a 1993 world bursting with varried crisies and information.
You can't run your White House like a college seminar when you have a country to fix. The sleepless Bill soon finds this out, and brings in grown ups like Leon Pinetta and David Gergan to keep the kids in line.
Policy and personality aside, the managerial process, and its entailed options, of being president are facinating, no matter who is in the office. You can learn a lot about a President by how he runs his White House. Woodward deals with this on an amazling level, and it is facinating to see with each successive White House, watching different Commanders and Cheifs learn the same lessons again and again.
For that alone, this should be a great book
Summary of The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House
The Agenda is a day-by-day, often minute-by-minute account of Bill Clinton's White House. Drawing on hundreds of interviews, confidential internal memos, diaries, and meeting notes, Woodward shows how Clinton and his advisers grappled with questions of lasting importance -- the federal deficit, health care, welfare reform, taxes, jobs. One of the most intimate portraits of a sitting president ever published, this edition includes an afterword on Clinton's efforts to save his presidency.A no-holds-barred look inside the Clinton White House during the first one hundred days of his presidency. What emerges is a portrait of a man hampered by his struggle to do the right thing. Despite the defeat of the health care initiative and the bungling first steps of a naive administration, Woodward uncovers the essential decency of the man from Hope.
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