In Search of Bill Clinton
A Psychological Biography
Gartner, John D.
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
William Jefferson Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States is undoubtedly the greatest American enigma of our age -- a dark horse that captured the White House, fell from grace and was resurrected as an elder statesman whose popularity rises and falls based on the days sound bytes. John Gartner's In Search of Bill Clinton unravels the mystery at the heart of Clintons complex nature and why so many people fall under his spell. He tells the story we all thought we knew, from the fresh viewpoint of a psychologist, as he questions the well-crafted Clinton life story. Travelling to Arkansas and around the world with those who knew Clinton and his family intimately, Gartner uncovers long-held secrets about Clinton's wild and seductive mother, Virginia Kelley, the truth surrounding Clintons birth, and how Kelley's character set the tone for Clinton's relationship with Monica Lewinsky. He considers Clinton's two fathers and how they might have contributed to his self-destructive nature and looks afresh at Sec. of State Hillary Clinton to see in her the figure of Edith Cassidy, Clinton's stern grandmother who set limits on him at an early age. Gartner brings Clintons story up to date with his diplomatic triumphs and humanitarianism across the globe, to find out why he is beloved in so much of the world while still scorned by many at home. John Gartners exhaustive journey provides the richest portrait of Clinton yet, a man who is one of our national obsessions. In Search of Bill Clinton is a surprising and compelling book about a man we all thought we knew.
AUTHOR BIO
John D. Gartner is a clinical psychologist on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University Medical School, where he has taught psychotherapy technique to psychiatric residents for the last 18 years. His first book, The Hypomanic Edge: The Link Between (a Little) Craziness and (a Lot of) Success in America, was cited by The New York Times Magazine as one of the most noteworthy ideas of 2005.
BOOK REVIEWS
Booklist Editors Choice for best nonfiction of 2008"John Gartner's new book In Search of Bill Clinton will, I think, help solve the riddle of the forty-second President: how a man with such superhuman talent could risk his entire life's work, as he did over Monica Lewinsky. In a wonderfully engaging quest, Gartner - a highly-experienced therapist - does what no psychologist has bothered to do over the past two decades of Clinton-watching: interview those who grew up with the man, and have intimate knowledge of his strengths and weaknesses. Written with lucidity, humor, compassion and amazing insight, it is a tour de force that not only helps explain one of the smartest yet complex men of our time, but shines a fascinating spotlight onto the problem of the super-gifted individual in our society. -- Nigel Hamilton author of Bill Clinton: An American Journey and Bill Clinton: Mastering the Presidency "Gartner reminds us why this complex figure still fascinates."--Publishers Weekly Gartner combines psychological biography and journalism in this probing look at one of our most fascinating presidents.-- Booklist John D. Gartner chose wisely. It's hard to think of someone whose life has provided more fodder for a psychological biography than former President Bill Clinton.-- Time Captivatingbrings real insight - and an investigative journalist's doggedness - to the subjectGartner exhaustively and engagingly catalogues the psychic twists and turns of Clinton's childhood-- NY Post
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0312596839
ISBN(13-digit): 9780312596835
Dewey Decimal: 920
Book Publisher: St Martins Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 466
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