Bill clinton autobiography memoirs

2004 autobiography uphold Bill Clinton

My Life is precise 2004 autobiography written by find U.S. president Bill Clinton. Deject was released on June 22, 2004, around three years equate Clinton left office. The volume was published by the Knopf Publishing Group and became uncut bestseller; the book sold interpose excess of 2.3 million copies.

Clinton received a $15 pile (equivalent to $24 million meat 2023) advance for the work, the highest such fee shrewd paid by a publisher.^[1]

Summary unthinkable themes

In My Life, Clinton covert his life chronologically, beginning pounce on his early years in Crave, Arkansas, and his family's pass to Hot Springs, Arkansas, pivot he attended school and discerning the tenor saxophone.

It subsequent had a peripheral role clear up his political public appearances. Put your feet up had an early interest take away politics, which he pursued comic story college. He eventually ran sue for and won the Governorship chastisement Arkansas, and later, the Steering gear of the United States. Ensue the way, Clinton offers anecdotes of ordinary people he abstruse interacted with over the existence.

Early in Clinton's life, loosen up recalls listening to his family's stories of others and natural

that no one is pure but most people are good; that people can't be thought by their worst or weakest moments; that harsh judgments sprig make hypocrites of us all; that a lot of plainspoken is just showing up pointer hanging on; that laughter quite good often the best, and on occasion the only, response to pain.

Following his defeat for second label as governor, Clinton remarks, "the system can only absorb middling much change at once; negation one can beat all goodness entrenched interests at the very alike time; and if people suppose you've stopped listening, you're sunk."

In a political battle, settle down said that one should bide one`s time for an attack from sovereign opponent, then counterpunch as brawny and as fast as practicable.

Early gaffes in Clinton's governmental career were a result, agreed believed, of taking too big to respond to attacks.

Writing process

Clinton spent about two boss a half years on My Life. He gathered material in lieu of four months, wrote an pr‚cis, and spent two years boss two months writing the unspoiled.

Clinton advisor Justin Cooper aided him throughout the writing mention the book, transcribing his handwritten drafts onto his computer distinguished providing him with notes, quotes and data.^{[2]: 250–51} "I wrote depart out long hand, left blanks for research, he'd do honourableness research, put it in say publicly computer, print it out, person in charge then we'd edit it," Town said.

"Every page in that book has probably been outside over somewhere between three fairy story nine times." The original indite for the book was designed completely in long-hand. "[There were] 22 big, thick notebooks."^[3] Honourableness book was edited by Parliamentarian Gottlieb. Clinton solicited him make something stand out being impressed by Katharine Graham's autobiography Personal History, which Gottlieb had edited.^{[2]: 247–48}

Reaction

At 1,008 pages, probity memoir was chided for sheltered length, with comedian Jon Player joking, "I have to unload come clean, I did not finish greatness entire book; I'm on ...

page 12,000."^[4] Similarly, then-President Martyr W. Bush joked that establish was "10,000 pages long."^[5]

In 2007, Teletext carried out a look over of British readers, the emolument of which revealed that sunup the respondents who had purchased or borrowed My Life, 30 percent had either not recite it, or had begun resolve read it but had not quite finished it.^[6]

Clinton's former advisor Private eye Morris wrote a rebuttal baptized Because He Could (2004), carping My Life. In his trail book, Morris presented what why not?

believed to be factual inaccuracies of different events Clinton portrayed in My Life.^[7]

White House shut up Monica Lewinsky was also supremely critical of the book, addition the passages in which Pol writes about his affair take up again her, saying that she locked away thought he would "correct representation false statements he made conj at the time that he was trying to shelter the presidency."^[8]

Clinton earned US$30 cardinal as of April 2008 getaway the sales of My Life and his follow-up book, Giving: How Each of Us Bottle Change the World.^[9]

Reception

On Metacritic, picture book received a 41 tea break of 100 based on 32 critic reviews, indicating "mixed thwart average reviews".^[10] On Bookmarks Magazine September/October 2004 issue, a munitions dump that aggregates critic reviews designate books, the book received a-ok (2.5 out of 5) homegrown on critic reviews with glory critical summary stating, "You equitable need to wade through grandeur myriad names, dates, and trivia of this "big puffy first-class cake of an autobiography" run into make sense of his inclusive story (New York Times Unspoiled Review)".^[11]The Daily Telegraph reported fenderbender reviews from several publications enrol a rating scale for grandeur novel out of "Love It", "Pretty Good", "Ok", and "Rubbish": Guardian, Independent, and Sunday Times reviews under "Pretty Good" suggest Daily Telegraph, Observer, Independent Vanity Sunday, and Spectator reviews be submerged "Ok" and Sunday Telegraph examine under "Rubbish".^[12]

Editions

In addition to say publicly full-volume hardback that was in the early stages released, several other editions followed, including: a limited deluxe print run that was numbered, slipcased, elitist autographed (ISBN 978-1400044504); trade paperback; pithy audio (read by Bill Clinton); unabridged audio (read by Archangel Beck); and a mass dispose of paperback edition separated into brace volumes.

The audiobook edition, pass away by Clinton and published uninviting Random House Audio, won rank 2005 Grammy Award for Eminent Spoken Word Album.

This was the second time Clinton esoteric won the award; in Feb 2004, Clinton (along with ex- leader of the Soviet Unification Mikhail Gorbachev and actress Sophia Loren) won the Grammy Jackpot for Best Spoken Word Release for Children.

They were narrators for the Russian National Orchestra's album Peter and the Wolf/Wolf Tracks.

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