CLINTON, WILLIAM J

Additional reading Clinton's speeches and statements are collected in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton (1994 ).Biographical works include David Gallen and Philip Martin, Bill Clinton as They Know Him (1994), comprising comments and anecdotes from friends, reporters, and politicians; and David Maraniss, First in His Class (1995), which covers his life up to the announcement of his presidential candidacy and is based on almost 400 interviews.The 1992 presidential campaign is chronicled in John Hohenberg, The Bill Clinton Story: Winning the Presidency (1994), with a brief discussion of Clinton's first year in office. Bob Woodward, The Choice (1996), chronicles the early months of the 1996 campaign, while his critical work, The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House (1994), focuses mainly on the economic policy of Clinton's early presidency. Additional critiques of the early months of Clinton's presidency include Elizabeth Drew, On the Edge (1994); John Brummett, Highwire: From the Backroads to the BeltwayThe Education of Bill Clinton (1994), by a columnist who began covering Clinton's career when he was elected governor of Arkansas in 1978; Richard Caplan and John Feffer (eds.), State of the Union, 1994: The Clinton Administration and the Nation in Profile (1994), a collection of essays assessing the Clinton administration's handling of specific policy issues, including health care, the environment, and gender equality; and Stanley A. Renshon (ed.), The Clinton Presidency: Campaigning, Governing, and the Psychology of Leadership (1995), a collection of papers treating not only various aspects of Clinton's early presidency but also the 1992 campaigns of George Bush and Ross Perot. An annotated bibliography of material written about and by Clinton is presented in Allan Metz (compiler), Bill Clinton's Pre-Presidential Career (1994).Donnie Radcliffe, Hillary Rodham Clinton: A First Lady for Our Time (1993), chronicles the life of Clinton's wife through her first several months as first lady.