Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton
Living History (First UK Edition Hardcover Copy)
The Intimate, Powerful, and Bestselling White House Memoir of an International Political Icon
The Intimate, Powerful, and Bestselling White House Memoir of an International Political Icon
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: Living History
- Author: Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Publisher: Headline (A Division of Hodder Headline), London
- Publication Date: 2003
- ISBN-10: 0747255152
- ISBN-13: 9780747255154
- Edition Details: First UK Edition, First Printing. Standard hardcover release with original unclipped dust jacket.
- Binding: Original publisher's premium textured cloth boards with crisp gold/silver gilt-stamped typography running down the spine, complete with structurally sound matching heavy-stock endpapers.
- Physical Format: Thick, heavy octavo (8vo), 562 pages. Wonderfully enhanced with a detailed central section featuring high-gloss, full-colour and black-and-white archival photographic plates tracking her childhood, legal career, and White House years.
- Language: English
Official Condition Report
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The Book: Very Good Plus (VG+)
- Exterior / Cloth Boards: The cloth casing remains in exceptional condition, sitting flat, square, and highly structurally sound. The corners show only microscopic storage friction, and the spine ends are crisp. The exceptionally thick spine itself remains completely unbroken and undamaged, retaining its original textbook rigidity.
- Interior: The text block is robustly bound, perfectly clean, and tight. The internal pages and photographic reference plates are clean, crisp, and intact. Entirely free of standard user highlighting, ink underlining, dealer pencil marks, or dog-ears.
- Provenance: An exemplary, well-maintained collectible copy showing no evidence of remainder marks, institutional library stamps, or previous owner nameplates.
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The Dust Jacket: Very Good Plus (VG+)
- Condition Details: The original vintage 2003 dust jacket exhibits excellent color contrast and strong paper structural integrity. It shows very limited, superficial signs of handling and slight edge wear along the outer extremities. It features no significant tears, fading, or open chips, and comes protected in a clear, archival Cellophane cover.
Synopsis & Historical Value
Published in 2003, just three years after leaving the executive mansion, Living History is the surprisingly engaging and compelling memoir of Hillary Rodham Clinton. Redefining the position of modern First Lady, Clinton provides a fascinating peek behind the curtain to deliver a primary account of her extraordinary journey. The narrative tracks her upbringing in suburban, middle-class 1950s America and her dramatic transformation from a conservative "Goldwater Girl" to a student activist, corporate lawyer, and controversial First Lady.
As the only First Lady to play a major role in shaping domestic legislation, she writes with candour, humour, and passion about her role in directing policy, expanding educational opportunities, and promotion of healthcare reform. This volume functions as a definitive chronicle of a thirty-year adventure in love and politics alongside Bill Clinton—surviving intense personal betrayal, relentless partisan investigations from Watergate to Whitewater, and a politically motivated impeachment war. Intimate and powerful, it captures the essence of a woman finding her voice at the center of global power.
Author Profile: Hillary Rodham Clinton
Hillary Rodham Clinton (born 1947) is an American statesman, attorney, and author who served as First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001, a U.S. Senator representing New York, and the 67th U.S. Secretary of State. A graduate of Wellesley College and Yale Law School, she achieved early distinction as a tough congressional counsel during the Nixon impeachment inquiry and as an elite corporate litigator. Recognized globally as a champion for human rights, democracy, and gender equality, she remains one of the most formidable and influential figures in modern political history.
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