Clinton: Portrait of Victory By Rebecca Buffum Taylor
A Definitive Photo-Essay, Comprehensive Inside Archive, and Behind-the-Scenes Record of the Historic 1992 U.S. Presidential Campaign
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: Clinton: Portrait of Victory
- Author: Rebecca Buffum Taylor (Text), P.F. Bentley (Photographs), Alex Castro (Photo Selection)
- Publisher: Warner Books / Epicenter Communications, New York
- Publication Date: 1993
- ISBN-10: 0446517585
- ISBN-13: 9780446517584
- Edition Details: First Edition, Stated First Printing.
- Binding: Original publisher's premium blue cloth-bound hardcover boards with silver-stamped spine lettering, complete with an unclipped illustrated glossy dust jacket.
- Physical Format: Quarto / Large Format (4to), 127 pages. Profusely illustrated with over 125 intimate black-and-white documentary photographs, featuring a professional prologue by Roger Rosenblatt and an epilogue by Michael Kramer.
- Language: English
Official Condition Report
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The Book: Very Good Plus (VG+)
- Exterior / Boards: The original blue cloth hardback binding is clean, uniform, and structurally sound with perfectly straight edges and sharp corner tips. The spine remains uncreased, tight, and completely perfect with bright spine lettering.
- Interior / Condition Note: The text block binding is remarkably tight and square. Internal pages, expansive black-and-white photo layouts, and text margins are unmarked and fully intact, though exhibiting uniform light tanning along the edges, a natural aging characteristic of this 1993 vintage paper stock. Free of user highlighting, library stamps, or folded corner tips.
- Protective Preservation: Professionally enclosed in a heavy-duty, premium archival cellophane cover, fully shielding the exterior boards from environmental friction or dust accumulation.
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The Dust Jacket: Very Good Plus (VG+)
- Condition details: Present, unclipped, and visually striking. Displays only very limited, microscopic signs of light storage handling along the extreme edges, remaining completely free of open tears, heavy scuffs, or major chips.
Synopsis & Historical Value
Published in 1993, Clinton: Portrait of Victory stands as an exceptionally candid and historic photo-essay capturing the exact mechanical transformation of a political campaign. Graced with over 125 raw, unpolished black-and-white photographs by award-winning photographer P.F. Bentley—who secured unprecedented behind-the-scenes access to the candidate and his staff for a full year—this volume chronicles Bill and Hillary Clinton away from the bright studio spotlights. The narrative tracks their grueling journey from day one of the primary race to the high-stakes final week where a carefully modest front-runner prepared two alternative speeches for election night. Documenting the lack of modern digital tools, the vintage modes of communication, and the pure psychological toll of the trail, this scarce first-edition compendium serves as an essential historical keepsake for political scientists, classic photojournalism collectors, and modern political history curators.
Author Profile: Rebecca Buffum Taylor
Rebecca Buffum Taylor is a highly accomplished American author, profile writer, and communications researcher specializing in political journalism and modern institutional history. Renowned for her collaborative biographical projects, Taylor specializes in contextualizing fast-paced visual journalism with rich narrative depth. Her work on this project is widely praised by media historians for seamlessly matching the rapid, close-quarters pace of political documentary photography with a balanced, highly insightful written narrative.
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