Women's Political History Hillary Rodham Clinton Living History Signed 2003

Clinton, Hillary Rodham. Living History, 2003, gives Clinton's first person account of her political development, eight years as First Lady of the United States, and emergence as an elected political figure in her own right. The memoir addresses her work on health care reform, children and families, women's rights, the investigations and political conflicts of the Clinton administration, and her transition from the White House to the United States Senate. Published after Clinton became the first former First Lady elected to federal office, the book records her own interpretation of the changing political role available to women in American public life at the end of the twentieth century. Clinton, Hillary Rodham. Living History. New York: Scribner, 2003. Signed "Hillary Rodham Clinton" in black felt tip on the title page. 567 pages. Softcover. 6.25 x 9 inches. Clinton traces her life from childhood and student politics through her legal career, years as First Lady of Arkansas, two terms as First Lady of the United States, and election to the Senate from New York, combining personal recollection with an account of major political controversies and policy initiatives of the 1990s. Living History was written after Clinton had moved from the constitutionally undefined position of First Lady into elected office, giving the memoir a distinctive place among accounts written by presidential spouses. Her signature on the title page provides a direct association with the author whose political career forms the book's subject. Near fine condition.…