My Life by Clinton, Bill
My Life (First UK Edition Hardcover Copy)
The Candid, Definitive Bestselling Autobiography of America's 42nd President
The Candid, Definitive Bestselling Autobiography of America's 42nd President
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: My Life
- Author: Bill Clinton
- Publisher: Hutchinson, London
- Publication Date: 2004
- ISBN-10: 0091795273
- ISBN-13: 9780091795276
- Edition Details: First UK Edition, First Printing. Standard hardcover release with original unclipped dust jacket.
- Binding: Original publisher's premium cloth boards with striking gilt-stamped lettering across the spine, complete with structurally sound matching heavy-stock endpapers.
- Physical Format: Massive, thick octavo (8vo), 957 pages [plus index]. Documented with dual comprehensive central suites of high-gloss historical family photographs, childhood archives, and presidential campaign prints.
- 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 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 2004 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 June 2004, just three years after he stepped down from the Oval Office, My Life is the monumental, strikingly candid autobiography of President Bill Clinton. Writing completely in longhand across 22 thick notebooks, Clinton delivers a deep, soul-searching account of his unlikely journey from a troubled childhood in Hope, Arkansas, to the pinnacle of global leadership.
The narrative details the history behind his major policy victories, including the passage of NAFTA, welfare reform, and a period of historic economic expansion resulting in the first balanced federal budget in three decades. More than a record of governance, this volume provides a refreshingly frank look at his private battles, his exhausting wars against a fierce political opposition, and the deep personal failures for which he was nearly impeached. Selling in excess of 2.3 million copies almost immediately upon release, it remains an essential primary historical text for understanding the shifting geopolitical landscape at the close of the Cold War.
Author Profile: Bill Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton (born 1946) served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. A graduate of Georgetown University, a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, and a Yale Law School alumnus, he entered politics early, serving as the Attorney General and later as the Governor of Arkansas. Recognized as the first baby-boomer president and the architect of the "New Democrat" Third Way philosophy of governance, Clinton's administrative legacy includes historic domestic growth and intense international mediation, helping forge peace initiatives in Northern Ireland and the Middle East.
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