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Article: Hillary Rodham Clinton: Polarizing First Lady.(Book review)
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- Presidential Studies Quarterly
- Article date:
- December 1, 2007
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Hillary Rodham Clinton: Polarizing First Lady. By Gil Troy. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006. ix, 263 pp.
In Hillary Rodham Clinton: Polarizing First Lady, presidential scholar Gil Troy adds to the literature on the U.S. first ladyship, a conversation that has burgeoned in scholarly and journalistic circles since Rodham Clinton assumed that role. Published on the eve of her campaign for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, Troy contends that his assessment of Rodham Clinton's tenure as presidential spouse reveals "the kind of senator she has become--and the kind of American leader she wants to be" (p. xii). Troy purports to present a picture of ...