Carl Bernstein

Carl Bernstein writes in CNN:

... But the circumstances were worse than merely finishing third, or Obama's stunning 40 percent of the vote, I responded. Seventy percent of Democratic voters in Iowa had voted against her. When she finally met in a ballroom with her supporters after the numbers were beyond redeem, she gave a tired variation of her stump speech - in stark contrast to Obama's sense of the history of the occasion.

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David Broder on A Woman in Charge

In his September 6, 2007 column, the esteemed Washington Post columnist writes ...

I have been thinking a lot about Sen. Clinton because part of my vacation reading was Carl Bernstein's fine political biography of her, " A Woman in Charge," published earlier this year. Its 600 pages, carefully reported and written with a commendable evenness of tone, offer perhaps the fullest portrait of this potential president.

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Praise from the Critics

"…a model of contemporary political biography . . . thorough, balanced, judicious and deeply reported . . . Bernstein almost always finds new facts and telling details" — Los Angeles Times (Ronald Brownstein)

"A remarkably revealing portrait." —The Wall Street Journal

"….A balanced and convincing picture of Mrs. Clinton . . . [Bernstein] also poses the essential concerns voters will need to confront in deciding whether they will support Mrs. Clinton’s 2008 candidacy." —The New York Times (Robert Dallek, author Nixon and Kissinger)

"Bernstein, the famed All the President's Men journalist, is dead solid perfect in his reporting here …The detail and digging on display in A Woman in Charge is stunning." —Chicago Sun-Times

"A Woman in Charge is the most reliable Hillary Clinton biography to date, a must-read for anybody closely following the 2008 campaign."—Boston Globe (Douglas Brinkley, editor, the Reagan Diaries)

"[Carl Bernstein] has not lost his reporter’s touch, and A Woman in Charge has already refocused serious questions—and supplied new information—about Hillary and Bill Clinton, their past behavior and their current ambitions to regain the White House."—Kevin Phillips, The Washington Post Book World

"Serious, well-researched and fair…A Woman in Charge is painstaking, sensitive and elegantly written." —The Economist

"You could say Bernstein has written the definitive book on Hillary." —Rocky Mountain News

"… one of the best unauthorized biographies I've ever read about a living person.…. Bernstein masterfully explains Clinton as a complicated human being." —St. Petersburg [Fla.] Times

"This superb book … is certain to become the defining biography of Senator Clinton
A Woman In Charge, which Bernstein worked on for more than seven years, was worth waiting for." —Toledo [Ohio] Blade

" sprightly written, often insightful in its judgments, and studded with factual nuggets that enhance the Hillary saga." —Salon.com

"…a considerable achievement." —Christian Science Monitor

"Bernstein has laboured conscientiously to give us a full and fair portrait of this remarkable figure now poised to be even more historic" —Toronto Globe and Mail


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A Woman In Charge

Now a New York Times and National Bestseller, Carl Bernstein’s stunning portrait of Hillary Rodham Clinton shows us, as nothing else has, the true trajectory of her life and career.

Marshaling all the skills and energy that propelled his history-making Pulitzer Prize reporting on Watergate, Bernstein gives us the most detailed, sophisticated, comprehensive, and revealing account we have had of the complex--and heretofore camouflaged--human being who has already helped define one presidency and may well become, herself, the woman in charge of another.

He has given us a book that enables us, at last, to address the questions Americans are insistently--even obsessively--asking about Hillary Clinton: What is her character? What is her political philosophy? Who is she? What can we expect of her?

Excerpt: On Hillary Clinton and Religion

Hillary Rodham’s childhood was not the suburban idyll suggested by the shaded front porch and gently sloping lawn of what was once the family home at 235 Wisner Street in Park Ridge, Illinois. In this leafy environment of postwar promise and prosperity, the Rodhams were distinctly a family of odd ducks, isolated from their neighbors by the difficult character of her father, Hugh Rodham, a sour, unfulfilled man whose children suffered his relentless, demeaning sarcasm and misanthropic inclination, endured his embarrassing parsimony, and silently accepted his humiliation and verbal abuse of their mother.

Yet as harsh, provocative, and abusive as Rodham was, he and his wife, the former Dorothy Howell, imparted to their children a pervasive sense of family and love for one another that in Hillary’s case is of singular importance.