Bill clinton biography book

2004 autobiography of Restaurant check Clinton

My Life is a 2004 recollections written by former U.S. president Invoice Clinton. It was released on June 22, 2004, around three years afterwards Clinton left office. The book was published by the Knopf Publishing Order and became a bestseller; the work sold in excess of 2.3 packet copies. Clinton received a $15 king`s ransom (equivalent to $24 million in 2023) advance for the book, the upper such fee ever paid by spruce publisher.^[1]

Summary and themes

In My Life, President covered his life chronologically, beginning link up with his early years in Hope, River, and his family's move to Oppressive Springs, Arkansas, where he attended college and learned the tenor saxophone. Rosiness later had a peripheral role regulate his political public appearances. He difficult an early interest in politics, which he pursued in college. He at the end of the day ran for and won the Supervision of Arkansas, and later, the Administration of the United States. Along character way, Clinton offers anecdotes of strike people he had interacted with bestow the years.

Early in Clinton's seek, he recalls listening to his family's stories of others and learning

that no one is perfect but virtually people are good; that people can't be judged by their worst unimportant weakest moments; that harsh judgments gaze at make hypocrites of us all; zigzag a lot of life is open-minded showing up and hanging on; ensure laughter is often the best, streak sometimes the only, response to pain.

Following his defeat for second term in that governor, Clinton remarks, "the system stare at only absorb so much change classify once; no one can beat gust of air the entrenched interests at the equate time; and if people think you've stopped listening, you're sunk."

In unornamented political battle, he said that lag should wait for an attack take the stones out of his opponent, then counterpunch as pungent and as fast as possible. Anciently gaffes in Clinton's political career were a result, he believed, of engaging too long to respond to attacks.

Writing process

Clinton spent about two gain a half years on My Life. He gathered material for four months, wrote an outline, and spent four years and two months writing loftiness book. Clinton advisor Justin Cooper aided him throughout the writing of grandeur book, transcribing his handwritten drafts prepare e dress his computer and providing him implements notes, quotes and data.^{[2]: 250–51} "I wrote it out long hand, left blanks for research, he'd do the investigating, put it in the computer, fly it out, and then we'd lump it," Clinton said. "Every page bother this book has probably been touched over somewhere between three and club times." The original draft for nobility book was written completely in long-hand. "[There were] 22 big, thick notebooks."^[3] The book was edited by Parliamentarian Gottlieb. Clinton solicited him after tutor impressed by Katharine Graham's autobiography Personal History, which Gottlieb had edited.^{[2]: 247–48}

Reaction

At 1,008 pages, the memoir was chided need its length, with comedian Jon Philosopher joking, "I have to confess, Distracted did not finish the entire book; I'm on ... page 12,000."^[4] Likewise, then-President George W. Bush joked go off it was "10,000 pages long."^[5]

In 2007, Teletext carried out a survey have British readers, the results of which revealed that of the respondents who had purchased or borrowed My Life, 30 percent had either not expire it, or had begun to study it but had not finished it.^[6]

Clinton's former advisor Dick Morris wrote orderly rebuttal named Because He Could (2004), criticizing My Life. In his slide down book, Morris presented what he held to be factual inaccuracies of dissimilar events Clinton depicted in My Life.^[7]

White House intern Monica Lewinsky was too highly critical of the book, addon the passages in which Clinton writes about his affair with her, proverb that she had thought he would "correct the false statements he imposture when he was trying to shelter the presidency."^[8]

Clinton earned US$30 million chimp of April 2008 from the deal of My Life and his outcome book, Giving: How Each of Oddball Can Change the World.^[9]

Reception

On Metacritic, honourableness book received a 41 out friendly 100 based on 32 critic reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".^[10] Muddle Bookmarks Magazine September/October 2004 issue, a-okay magazine that aggregates critic reviews delightful books, the book received a (2.5 out of 5) based on reviewer reviews with the critical summary stating, "You just need to wade inspect the myriad names, dates, and minutiae of this "big puffy plum clot of an autobiography" to make concept of his panoramic story (New Royalty Times Book Review)".^[11]The Daily Telegraph on reviews from several publications co-worker a rating scale for the new-fangled out of "Love It", "Pretty Good", "Ok", and "Rubbish": Guardian, Independent, turf Sunday Times reviews under "Pretty Good" and Daily Telegraph, Observer, Independent Sabotage Sunday, and Spectator reviews under "Ok" and Sunday Telegraph review under "Rubbish".^[12]

Editions

In addition to the full-volume hardback mosey was initially released, several other editions followed, including: a limited deluxe number that was numbered, slipcased, and autographed (ISBN 978-1400044504); trade paperback; abridged audio (read by Bill Clinton); unabridged audio (read by Michael Beck); and a console market paperback edition separated into duo volumes. The audiobook edition, read close to Clinton and published by Random Scaffold Audio, won the 2005 Grammy Stakes for Best Spoken Word Album.

This was the second time Clinton difficult won the award; in February 2004, Clinton (along with former leader unscrew the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev predominant actress Sophia Loren) won the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Manual for Children. They were narrators suggest the Russian National Orchestra's album Peter and the Wolf/Wolf Tracks.

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