Living History

出版者:Scribner

作者:Hillary Rodham Clinton

页数:592

出版时间:2004-4-19

价格:USD 18.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780743222259

具体描述

The Phenomenal #1 Worldwide Bestseller WITH A NEW AFTERWORD Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions of people around the world. Yet few beyond her close friends and family have ever heard her account of her extraordinary journey. She writes with candor, humor and passion about her upbringing in suburban, middle-class America in the 1950s and her transformation from Goldwater Girl to student activist to controversial First Lady. Living History is her revealing memoir of life through the White House years. It is also her chronicle of living history with Bill Clinton, a thirty-year adventure in love and politics that survives personal betrayal, relentless partisan investigations and constant public scrutiny. Hillary Rodham Clinton came of age during a time of tumultuous social and political change in America. Like many women of her generation, she grew up with choices and opportunities unknown to her mother or grandmother. She charted her own course through unexplored terrain -- responding to the changing times and her own internal compass -- and became an emblem for some and a lightning rod for others. Wife, mother, lawyer, advocate and international icon, she has lived through America's great political wars, from Watergate to Whitewater. The only First Lady to play a major role in shaping domestic legislation, Hillary Rodham Clinton traveled tirelessly around the country to champion health care, expand economic and educational opportunity and promote the needs of children and families, and she crisscrossed the globe on behalf of women's rights, human rights and democracy. She redefined the position of First Lady and helped save the presidency from an unconstitutional, politically motivated impeachment. Intimate, powerful and inspiring, Living History captures the essence of one of the most remarkable women of our time and the challenging process by which she came to define herself and find her own voice -- as a woman and as a formidable figure in American politics.

作者简介

希拉里：美国总统克林顿夫人，最有可能成为美国第一位女总统的候选人，本书被认为是她为竞选下一届美国总统的自我宣传之作，从希拉里的中学时代写起，以白宫八年生活为中心，广泛涉及克林顿执政期间美国的对内对外政策、诸多重大国际国内政治事件的背景、她与克林顿之间的情感纠葛等等。作为美国第一夫人，同时又是一个追求独立、有责任心的优秀女性，无论褒贬者都不得不折服于她的公众影响力。

---from amzon

读后感

因为审核，必须再写一遍。 Key words of Hillary, have a self indulged grandmother, imprinted the pain of her mother, looking for someone for life, luckly she found Bill Clinton, who she can talk the all night and said 'when you are ready you have to let me kn...  

在国外政治界里，希拉里，撒切尔夫人一直都是我最敬佩、最敬仰的女性。对于政治界出名的佼佼者的生活充满好奇。再加上前段时间，刷英语听力时，无意中看到希拉里落选总统后的演讲。关于竞选落选，她说： “我们竞选从来不是为了某个人或某次选举，而是为了这个我们所热爱的国家...  

不是生来就是第一夫人或议员，不是生来就是民主党，不是生来就是律师或妇女权利及人权的倡导者，不是生来就是妻子或母亲。 这本书的第一句话，足以吸引我继续往下看。花了一个月的时间慢慢读完，很有成就感。作为一个女人，希拉里能够在无比残酷的政坛生存下来并取得自己的一...  

一直读对希拉里这位女人很好奇，恰好图书馆有这本书于是就借来看了。零零碎碎前后花了将近20天的时间才看完这本430万字的书。本来期待能从里面得到一些励志的故事，可是全书看完才发现大部分的篇幅是在讲美国政治斗争，以及希拉里个人的政治信仰。 希拉里在中国可能名声并不太...

用户评价

I just finished reading several parts, maybe at that time, I was too young to understand what she's really talking about.

非常欣赏她。女强人，非常乐观和坚强，非常聪明。resilient. Very passionate about serving the community. 有个小细节。她第一次在法庭上辩护一个消费者。the plaintiff bought an can meat and found the rat tail in it. he requested for large sums of compensation because he can't kiss his fiancé after seeing the rat tail!

可能是先入为主了，现在看即使写的再平淡也觉得这女人是个狠角色。

四个月结束了这本书，阅读过程中有三分之一愉悦，三分之一无聊，剩下是记述的平淡。抛开一切，这是一个令人敬佩的人，她身上的坚持，韧劲，乐观，善交 都被发挥至极致。她是个典型的政客，是个天生的斗士，会花连续的几十页纸重述某次政治斗争，每次涉及这些，总是草草翻过，看得都心累，何况是亲自经历比文字更为复杂的这些，真的是为政治而生的一个人。

I read as fast as my eyesight and patience permitted...