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1) Hardcover Book In Search of Bill Clinton: A Psychological Biography by St. Martin´s Press. If your are a Clinton fan you will enjoy it.The author is not really talented in Biography writing, his sense of narration is borderline dull, but he does offer an extensive research, reports,interviews with family friends, etc etc. The author as a psychologist, does not really excell in his field. His continuous obsession with his ´hypomanic temprament theory´ and his many references to oedipal complex syndrome in relation to Bill & his mother Virginia, is a bit far fetched.Overall-it comes down to- are you a Clinton fan? If yes, you will enjoy the reporting, the authors unapologetic blind adulation to his subject and that overall disturbing tone of boy crush is reminiscent through out reading this hagiography book called : In search of Bill Clinton.¤

2) Hardcover Book In Search of Bill Clinton: A Psychological Biography by St. Martin´s Press. While masquerading as a psycho dynamic study of Bill Clinton it is nothing more than an hagiographic biography. Gartner genuflects at every opportunity. Don´t waste your time. Not worth a detour.¤

3) Hardcover Book In Search of Bill Clinton: A Psychological Biography by St. Martin´s Press. Having grown up in the era of tabloid journalism, I originally had my doubts about this title. I was concerned that it was nothing more than the latest title of ´sex and politics´. And such an approach would be designed to push book sales.

But Gartner is empathetic to his subject while maintaining a clinical detachment. So this title is definitely not part of the attack stable. It instead promotes why Bill is himself.

Acknowledging Clinton´s political brilliance, he also argues that the former president (like all humans) is fundamentally multi-layered individuals. In our hyper sound-bite driven society, we forget--or ignore--that people are not ´perfect´ including a president. Unable to get the immediate results which we want out of such people, we quickly and erroneously assume that they have instead ´failed´.

It also talks about Clinton´s strengths including his compassion for others,reaching all the way back into the presidents childhood experiences. They had conditioned him for a lifetime of public services-and his current psychological being today.

Personally having met Bill during a community event, I easily vouch that he is a public official sincerely caring for the well-being of others. Attending to the emotional and physical needs of others himself is not a photo and/or vote getting-opportunity. He genuinely hates to see people experiencing pain!

This book might be inspiring for other people continuing (or starting) their own career in the public sector. I still love Bill.

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4) Hardcover Book In Search of Bill Clinton: A Psychological Biography by St. Martin´s Press. Obama is nothing less than a ratification of the enigma Bill Clinton made of politics, and it´s well to remember that he arrived in America to politics about the time Clinton ascended to office according to his own autobiography. Why not highjack Hope and make it his own?

Not yet has history found a niche for Clinton who apparently has among the longest coat-tails in American history, albeit yet unspoken. A vote for Obama is a ratification of the Bill, not Hillary, Clinton style, and both Obama and Hillary made good use of those tails.

Whether America will ever find a niche for Bill Clinton´s psychological or leadership style remains undecided and should be a thorn in the side of every politician, and historian.

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5) Hardcover Book In Search of Bill Clinton: A Psychological Biography by St. Martin´s Press. This book reinforced my opinion that Bill Clinton is one of the most important public figures in the world. The author dissects him layer by layer until you feel you understand the quadrillion-pieced puzzle. I could not put it down. I, too, once met Bill Clinton as a teenager in 1988 (while he was still governor) and the author´s description of a special, personal bond, however brief, when encountering this emotional/intellectual giant is absolutely true.

Buy this book.¤

6) Hardcover Book In Search of Bill Clinton: A Psychological Biography by St. Martin´s Press.

What makes Bill Clinton tick?

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 day’s sound bytes. John Gartner´s In Search of Bill Clinton unravels the mystery at the heart of Clinton’s 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. Gartner, a therapist with an expertise in treating individuals with hypomanic temperaments, saw in Clinton the energy, creativity and charisma that leads a hypomanic individual to success as well as the problems with impulse control and judgment, which frequently result in disastrous decision-making. He knew, though, that if he wanted to find the real Bill Clinton he couldn’t rely on armchair psychology to provide the answer. He knew he had to travel to Arkansas and around the world to talk with those who knew Clinton and his family intimately. With his boots on the ground, Gartner uncovers long-held secrets about Clinton´s mother, the ambitious and seductive Virginia Kelley, her wild life in Hot Springs and the ghostly specter of his biological father, Bill Blythe, to uncover the truth surrounding Clinton’s rumor-filled birth. He considers the abusive influence of Clinton´s alcoholic stepfather, Roger Clinton, to understand the repeated public abuse he invited both by challenging a hostile Republican Congress and engaging in the clandestine affair with Monica Lewinsky that led to his downfall. Of course, there is no marriage more dissected than that of the Clintons, both in the White House and on the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign trail. Instead of going down familiar paths, Gartner looks at that relationship with a new focus and clearly sees, in Hillary’s molding of Clinton into a more disciplined politician, the figure of Bill Clinton’s stern grandmother, Edith Cassidy, the woman who set limits on him at an early age. Gartner brings Clinton’s story up to date as he travels to Ireland, the scene of one of Clinton’s greatest diplomatic triumphs, and to Africa, where his work with AIDS victims is unmatched, to understand Clinton’s current humanitarian persona and to find out why he is beloved in so much of the world while still scorned by many at home. John Gartner’s exhaustive trip around the globe 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.

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