The long-awaited biography of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, written and compiled by Carl Bernstein, the investigative reporter of Watergate fame, will be released on June 19. A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton, is a 650 page book. Knopf who also published Bill Clinton’s memoir, My Life, has announced the first printing to include some 350,000 copies.
The chairman and editor in chief of Alfred A, Knopf, Sonny Mehta said, ‘Hillary Clinton is one of the most compelling figures in the world today, and Carl Bernstein’s stunning portrait shows us, for the first time, the true trajectory of her life and career. I believe his book will stand as the most detailed, comprehensive, and revealing account we have of a woman who helped define one presidency and may well step into another.”
Several books are being written about Sen. Clinton, but what makes this particular book special is the Bernstein’s art of digging up information from the past. In 1970, he teamed up with Bob Woodward, as the Washington Post reporters and exposed the Watergate scandal which brought down President Nixon. The series of articles by them also won the the Pulitzer Prize. They worked together on two books, All the President’s Men and The Final Days, on President Nixon. Bernstein’s other books include His Holiness, a biography of Pope John Paul II, and Loyalties: A Son’s Memoir.
Knopf stated that the biography of Sen. Hillary will not leave anything. It will cover everything and anything from Clinton’s “complex relationship with her disciplinarian father” to “her courtship with Bill Clinton and the amazing dynamic of their marriage, during the most trying of circumstances and times.’
Bernstein has been working on this book from eight years during which he had interviewed more than 200 people. Bernstein’s book will arrive two months before another Clinton biography in row, which has been written by the New York Times reporters Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta, Jr.
Source: USAToday
