The defining characteristic of Hillary Rodham Clinton's tenure as First Lady is the rhetorical merging of the traditional wife's role with that of a savvy politician, skilled in the discursive management of crisis situations. Kelley explores the singular and successful rhetorical persona of the last First Lady of the 20th century.
For most first ladies, their years in the White House are their sole claim to fame. For one-Hillary Rodham Clinton-that tenure was just another step in a remarkable political career....
48 Lucretia Garfield came to understand the political protocol for first ladies, regretting her innocent misstep of entering Washington, D.C.'s City Hall to see Alex- ander Hamilton's portrait. After greeting several political officials ...
By the time of her graduation four years later, Hillary could sum up the experience with clarity: “Both the college and the country were going through a period of rapid, sometimes tumultuous changes.... My classmates and I felt ...
" Although her communication was flawed and the media coverage of her did reflect biases, these essays demonstrate how her campaign was in trouble from the start because of her gender, status as a former First Lady, and being half of a ...
Women candidates are under more pressure to communicate competence and likability than men.
Robert P. Watson and Ann Gordon, “Profile: Shirley Chisholm, Blazing Trails,” in Anticipating Madam President, eds. Robert P. Watson and Ann Gordon (Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner, 2003), 54. 17. Gutgold, Paving the Way, 153. 18.
Presents the life and accomplishments of former First Lady Hillary Clinton, who campaigned for her husband in the 1992 presidential election and stood by her husband's confession of infidelity in 1998.
The author chronicles her eight years as First Lady of the United States, looking back on her husband's two administrations, the challenges she faced during the period, the impeachment crisis, and her own political work.
Presents the life of the former first lady who has become a political figure in her own right as a United States senator and presidential candidate.
This memoir is the story of the four extraordinary and historic years that followed, and the hard choices that she and her colleagues confronted.