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See also
Robert
Turner Allison —
Robert
Clinton Belloni —
Carrie
Chapman Catt —
Alice
Clinton-Boyd —
Ela
Collins —
Thomas
John Bright Robinson |
| | Clinton,
Albert See Frederick Albert
Clinton |
| | Clinton,
Bill See William Jefferson
Clinton |
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Clinton, C. L. —
of Dodge City, Ford
County, Kan.
Mayor
of Dodge City, Kan., 1952-54.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Clinton, Charles
(1767-1829) —
of Orange
County, N.Y.
Born in Little Britain, Orange
County, N.Y., February
18, 1767.
Member of New York
state assembly from Orange County, 1801-02.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April
20, 1829 (age 62 years, 61
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Clinton, Clifford E. —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; cafeteria
owner; candidate for mayor
of Los Angeles, Calif., 1945.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Clinton, D. L. —
of Clintonville, North Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.
Postmaster at Clintonville,
Conn., 1901.
Burial location unknown.
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Clinton, De Witt
(1769-1828) —
also known as "Father of the Erie
Canal" —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Napanoch, Ulster
County, N.Y., March 2,
1769.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1797-98; member of New York
state senate Southern District, 1798-1802, 1805-11; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1801; member of New York
council of appointment, 1801; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1802-03; mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1803-07, 1808-10, 1811-15; Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1811-13; candidate for President
of the United States, 1812; Governor of
New York, 1817-23, 1825-28; died in office 1828.
Member, Freemasons.
Chief advocate for the Erie Canal,
completed 1825.
Slaveowner.
Died, from heart
failure, in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., February
11, 1828 (age 58 years, 346
days).
Original interment at Clinton
Cemetery, Little Britain, N.Y.; reinterment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of James Clinton and Mary (De Witt) Clinton;
half-brother of James Graham Clinton;
brother of Charles Clinton, George Clinton Jr., Mary Clinton (who married
Ambrose
Spencer (1765-1848)) and Katherine Clinton (who married Ambrose
Spencer (1765-1848)); married, February
13, 1796, to Maria Franklin; married, May 8,
1819, to Catherine Livingston Jones; father of George William Clinton; nephew of George Clinton; first cousin of Jacob
Hasbrouck DeWitt; first cousin once removed of Charles
De Witt; first cousin five times removed of Abraham
Owen Smoot III and Isaac
Albert Smoot; second cousin once removed of Charles
D. Bruyn and Charles
Gerrit De Witt; second cousin twice removed of David
Miller De Witt. |
| | | Political families: Clinton-DeWitt
family of New York; DeWitt-Bruyn-Hasbrouck-Kellogg
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Peter
Gansevoort |
| | | Clinton counties in Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., Mich., Mo. and Pa., and DeWitt County,
Ill., are named for him. |
| | | The township
and city of DeWitt,
Michigan, are named for
him. — The city
of De
Witt, Iowa, is named for
him. — The village
of DeWitt,
Illinois, is named for
him. — The city
of De
Witt, Missouri, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: De
Witt C. Stevens
— DeWitt
C. Walker
— De
Witt C. Stanford
— De
Witt C. Littlejohn
— De Witt
C. Gage
— DeWitt
C. Clark
— De
Witt C. Leach
— Dewitt
C. West
— John
DeWitt Clinton Atkins
— DeWitt
C. Wilson
— De
Witt C. Morris
— D.
C. Giddings
— DeWitt
C. Hough
— DeWitt
C. Jones
— De
Witt C. Tower
— D.
C. Coolman
— DeWitt
Clinton Cregier
— DeWitt
C. Hoyt
— DeWitt
Clinton Senter
— De
Witt C. Rugg
— DeWitt
C. Allen
— DeWitt
C. Peck
— DeWitt
C. Richman
— Dewitt
C. Alden
— DeWitt
C. Cram
— De
Witt C. Bolton
— DeWitt
C. Huntington
— DeWitt
C. Jones
— DeWitt
C. Pond
— De Witt
C. Carr
— DeWitt
C. Pierce
— DeWitt
C. Middleton
— De
Witt C. Badger
— DeWitt
C. Dominick
— DeWitt
C. Becker
— De
Witt C. Titus
— De
Witt C. Winchell
— Dewitt
C. Turner
— Dewitt
C. Ruscoe
— DeWitt
C. Brown
— DeWitt
C. French
— De
Witt C. Flanagan
— DeWitt
C. Cole
— DeWitt
C. Talmage
— Dewitt
Clinton Chase
— De
Witt C. Poole, Jr.
— DeWitt
C. Cunningham
— Dewitt
C. Chastain
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the U.S. $1,000 note in 1898-1905.
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| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about De Witt Clinton: Evan
Cornog, The
Birth of Empire : DeWitt Clinton and the American Experience,
1769-1828 |
| | | Image source: New York Public
Library |
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| | Clinton,
DeWitt See G. DeWitt
Clinton |
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Clinton, E. M. —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Pennsylvania, 1912.
Burial location unknown.
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Clinton, Emanuel R. —
of Pennsylvania.
Democrat. Candidate for Presidential Elector for Pennsylvania.
Burial location unknown.
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Clinton, F. L. —
of Pascagoula, Jackson
County, Miss.
Honorary
Consul for Cuba in Pascagoula,
Miss., 1908.
Burial location unknown.
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Clinton, Frederick Albert
(1834-1890) —
also known as Albert Clinton —
of Lancaster
County, S.C.
Born in slavery,
South Carolina, 1834.
Republican. Farmer; delegate
to South Carolina state constitutional convention from Lancaster
County, 1868; member of South
Carolina state senate from Lancaster County, 1870-77; resigned
1877; chair of
Lancaster County Republican Party, 1874-78.
African
ancestry.
Died in Lancaster
County, S.C., 1890
(age about
56 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Celesta Robinson. |
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Clinton, G. DeWitt —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Member of New York
state assembly from New York County 2nd District, 1854.
Burial location unknown.
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Clinton, George
(1739-1812) —
of Ulster
County, N.Y.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Little Britain, Orange
County, N.Y., July 26,
1739.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from New York, 1775-76; Governor of
New York, 1777-95, 1801-04; delegate
to New York convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Ulster
County, 1788; member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1800-01; Vice
President of the United States, 1805-12; died in office 1812.
Christian
Reformed. Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April
20, 1812 (age 72 years, 269
days).
Original interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment in 1908 at Old
Dutch Churchyard, Kingston, N.Y.
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Clinton, George, Jr.
(1771-1809) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 6,
1771.
Democrat. Delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1801; member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1803-05; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1805-09 (3rd District 1805, 2nd
District 1805-09).
Slaveowner.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
16, 1809 (age 38 years, 102
days).
Interment at St. Peters Episcopal Churchyard, Bronx, N.Y.
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Clinton, George —
of Erie
County, N.Y.
Member of New York
state assembly from Erie County 3rd District, 1884.
Burial location unknown.
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Clinton, George —
of Atlantic City, Atlantic
County, N.J.
Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
New Jersey, 1896.
Burial location unknown.
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Clinton, George, Sr. —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.
Delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 48th District, 1915.
Burial location unknown.
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Clinton, George De Witt —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.
Born in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.
Land
agent; member of New York
state assembly from Erie County 2nd District, 1857.
Burial location unknown.
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Clinton, George W. —
U.S.
Attorney for the Northern District of New York, 1847-50.
Burial location unknown.
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Clinton, George W. (b.
1861) —
of Cumberland, British
Columbia.
Born in Harrisburg, Dauphin
County, Pa., August
15, 1861.
Coal mining
business; accountant;
U.S. Consular Agent in Union, 1892-98; Cumberland, 1898-1929; first president, Cumberland Electric
Lighting Company.
Methodist.
Burial location unknown.
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Clinton, George William
(1807-1885) —
also known as George W. Clinton —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., April
24, 1807.
Democrat. Mayor
of Buffalo, N.Y., 1842-43; Buffalo superior court judge, 1854-77;
delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1867.
Died in Menands, Albany
County, N.Y., September
7, 1885 (age 78 years, 136
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, N.Y.
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Clinton, Gordon Stanley
(1920-2011) —
also known as Gordon S. Clinton —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born in Medicine Hat, Alberta,
April
13, 1920.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; FBI
special agent; lawyer; mayor
of Seattle, Wash., 1956-64.
Methodist.
Member, Phi
Delta Phi; Pi
Sigma Alpha; American
Judicature Society; Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Shriners.
Died November
19, 2011 (age 91 years, 220
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Clinton, Harry E. —
of Troy, Rensselaer
County, N.Y.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1924;
mayor
of Troy, N.Y., 1925-27.
Catholic.
Interment at St.
Mary's Cemetery, Troy, N.Y.
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Clinton, Hillary Rodham (b.
1947) —
also known as Hillary Clinton; Hillary Diane Rodham;
"Hill"; "Evergreen" —
of Chappaqua, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., October
26, 1947.
Democrat. Lawyer; First Lady
of the United States, 1993-2001; U.S.
Senator from New York, 2001-; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 2004,
2008
(speaker);
candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 2008;
U.S.
Secretary of State, 2009-13; candidate for President
of the United States, 2016.
Female.
Methodist.
Member, Phi
Alpha Delta.
Inducted, National
Women's Hall of Fame, 2005.
Still living as of 2022.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Hugh Ellsworth Rodham and Dorothy Emma (Howell) Rodham;
sister of Hugh
Edwin Rodham; married, October
11, 1975, to William Jefferson Clinton;
mother of Chelsea Clinton (daughter-in-law of Edward
Maurice Mezvinsky and Marjorie
Margolies-Mezvinsky). |
| | | Political family: Clinton
family of Wadesboro, North Carolina (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — Ballotpedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — OurCampaigns
candidate detail — National
Women's Hall of Fame |
| | | Books by Hillary Clinton: Living
History (2003) — An
Invitation To The White House : At Home With History
(2000) — It
Takes A Village |
| | | Books about Hillary Clinton: Joe
Conason, The
Hunting of the President : The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and
Hillary Clinton — Donnie Radcliffe, Hillary
Rodham Clinton : A First Lady for Our Time — Gene
Lyons, Fools
for Scandal : How the Media Invented Whitewater — Gail
Sheehy, Hillary's
Choice — Michael Tomasky, Hillary's
Turn : Inside Her Improbable, Victorious Senate
Campaign — Sidney Blumenthal, The
Clinton Wars — Bernard Ryan, Jr., Hillary
Clinton : First Lady and Senator — Susan Estrich, The
Case For Hillary Clinton — Dick Morris and Eileen
McGann, Condi
vs. Hillary : The Next Great Presidential Race — Jeff
Gerth & Don Van Natta, Jr., Her
Way : The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham
Clinton — Susan Morrison, ed., Thirty
Ways of Looking at Hillary: Reflections by Women
Writers — Jonathan Allen & Amie Parnes, HRC:
State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton |
| | | Critical books about Hillary Clinton:
Barbara Olson, Hell
to Pay : The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham
Clinton — Peggy Noonan, The
Case Against Hillary Clinton — R. Emmet Tyrell, Jr.,
Madame
Hillary : The Dark Road to the White House — Jack
Cashill, Ron
Brown's Body : How One Man's Death Saved the Clinton Presidency and
Hillary's Future — Christopher Hitchens, No
One Left To Lie To: The Values of the Worst Family —
Carl Limbacher, Hillary's
Scheme : Inside the Next Clinton's Ruthless Agenda to Take the White
House — Ed Klein, The
Truth About Hillary : What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far
She'll Go to Become President — Dick Morris, Rewriting
History — David N. Bossie, Hillary:
The Politics of Personal Destruction — Joyce Milton,
The
First Partner: Hillary Rodham Clinton |
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Clinton, James
(1736-1812) —
of Ulster
County, N.Y.; Orange
County, N.Y.
Born in Little Britain, Orange
County, N.Y., August
9, 1736.
General in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of New York
state assembly, 1787-88, 1800-01 (Ulster County 1787-88, Orange
County 1800-01); delegate
to New York convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Ulster
County, 1788; member of New York
state senate Middle District, 1788-92; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1801.
Died in Little Britain, Orange
County, N.Y., December
22, 1812 (age 76 years, 135
days).
Original interment at Clinton
Cemetery, Little Britain, N.Y.; reinterment in 1879 at Woodlawn
Cemetery, New Windsor, N.Y.
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Clinton, James Graham
(1804-1849) —
also known as James G. Clinton —
of New York.
Born in Little Britain, Orange
County, N.Y., January
2, 1804.
Democrat. Common pleas court judge in New York, 1830; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1841-45 (6th District 1841-43, 9th
District 1843-45).
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 28,
1849 (age 45 years, 146
days).
Original interment at Clinton
Cemetery, Little Britain, N.Y.; reinterment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, New Windsor, N.Y.
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Clinton, Jerry —
of Kansas.
Republican. Candidate for Kansas
state senate 11th District, 2000.
Still living as of 2000.
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Clinton, Joseph A. —
of Rocky Hill, Hartford
County, Conn.
Democrat. Candidate for Connecticut
state house of representatives from Rocky Hill, 1928, 1930, 1956.
Burial location unknown.
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Clinton, Mary —
of Vero Beach, Indian
River County, Fla.
Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Florida, 1996.
Female.
Still living as of 1996.
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Clinton, Ronald —
of New York.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,
2000.
Still living as of 2000.
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Clinton, Royal W. —
of Tioga
County, N.Y.
Member of New York
state assembly from Tioga County, 1891.
Burial location unknown.
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Clinton, Sam Houston, Jr. —
of Austin, Travis
County, Tex.
Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Texas, 1972.
Still living as of 1972.
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Clinton, Spencer —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.
Democrat. Gold Democratic candidate for judge of
New York Court of Appeals, 1896.
Burial location unknown.
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Clinton, Stephen A. —
of Michigan.
Democrat. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 17th District, 1932.
Burial location unknown.
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Clinton, T. F. —
of Bloomington, McLean
County, Ill.
Democrat. Member of Illinois
Democratic State Central Committee, 1919.
Burial location unknown.
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Clinton, Velma M. —
of Michigan.
Candidate for Presidential Elector for Michigan.
Female.
Still living as of 1980.
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Clinton, William Jefferson (b.
1946) —
also known as Bill Clinton; William Jefferson Blythe
IV; "Slick Willie"; "Bubba";
"Elvis"; "Eagle"; "The Big
Dog" —
of Arkansas; Chappaqua, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Hope, Hempstead
County, Ark., August
19, 1946.
Democrat. Rhodes
scholar; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Arkansas 3rd District, 1974; Arkansas
state attorney general, 1977-79; Governor of
Arkansas, 1979-81, 1983-92; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Arkansas, 1996,
2000;
speaker, 1984,
1988;
President
of the United States, 1993-2001; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 2004,
2008.
Baptist.
Member, Trilateral
Commission; Council on
Foreign Relations; Phi
Beta Kappa; Pi
Sigma Alpha; Phi
Alpha Delta; American Bar
Association.
On October 29, 1994, Francisco Duran fired 27 shots from the sidewalk
at the White House in an apparent assassination
attempt against President Clinton. Impeached
by the House of Representatives in December 1998 over allegations of
perjury
and obstruction
of justice in connection with his sexual
contact with a White House intern, Monica Lewinsky, but acquitted
by the Senate.
Still living as of 2020.
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Relatives:
Step-son of Roger Clinton; son of William Jefferson Blythe II and
Virginia (Cassidy) Clinton; married, October
11, 1975, to Hillary Diane Rodham
(sister of Hugh
Edwin Rodham); father of Chelsea Clinton (daughter-in-law of Edward
Maurice Mezvinsky and Marjorie
Margolies-Mezvinsky); third cousin twice removed of James
Alexander Lockhart. |
| | | Political families: Clinton
family of Wadesboro, North Carolina; Ashe-Polk
family of North Carolina (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Abraham
J. Hirschfeld — Kenneth
W. Starr — Rahm
Emanuel — Henry
G. Cisneros — Maria
Echaveste — Thurgood
Marshall, Jr. — Walter
S. Orlinsky — Charles
F. C. Ruff — Sean
Patrick Maloney — Lanny
J. Davis |
| | | The William Jefferson Clinton Federal
Building (built 1934; renamed 2012) in Washington,
D.C., is named for
him. |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books by Bill Clinton: Between
Hope and History : Meeting America's Challenges for the 21st
Century (1996) — My
Life (2004) |
| | | Books about Bill Clinton: David
Maraniss, First
in His Class : The Biography of Bill Clinton — Joe
Conason, The
Hunting of the President : The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and
Hillary Clinton — Gene Lyons, Fools
for Scandal : How the Media Invented Whitewater —
Sidney Blumenthal, The
Clinton Wars — Dewayne Wickham, Bill
Clinton and Black America — Joe Klein, The
Natural : The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill
Clinton — Nigel Hamilton, Bill
Clinton: An American Journey — Bob Woodward, The
Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House — George
Stephanopolous, All
Too Human — John F. Harris, The
Survivor : Bill Clinton in the White House — Mark
Katz, Clinton
& Me: A Real Life Political Comedy — Michael Takiff,
A
Complicated Man: The Life of Bill Clinton as Told by Those Who Know
Him — Tim O'Shei, Bill
Clinton (for young readers) |
| | | Critical books about Bill Clinton:
Barbara Olson, The
Final Days : The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White
House — Meredith L. Oakley, On
the Make : The Rise of Bill Clinton — Robert
Patterson, Dereliction
of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton Endangered
America's Long-Term National Security — Ambrose
Evans-Pritchard, The
Secret Life of Bill Clinton: The Unreported Stories —
Ann Coulter, High
Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill
Clinton — Dick Morris & Eileen McGann, Because
He Could — Jack Cashill, Ron
Brown's Body : How One Man's Death Saved the Clinton Presidency and
Hillary's Future — Christopher Hitchens, No
One Left To Lie To: The Values of the Worst Family —
Rich Lowry, Legacy:
Paying the Price for the Clinton Years — Richard
Miniter, Losing
Bin Laden : How Bill Clinton's Failures Unleashed Global
Terror |
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