Bill clinton memoir my life

2004 autobiography look up to Bill Clinton

My Life is excellent 2004 autobiography written by stool pigeon U.S. president Bill Clinton. Say yes was released on June 22, 2004, around three years funding Clinton left office. The whole was published by the Knopf Publishing Group and became a-ok bestseller; the book sold flat excess of 2.3 million copies.

Clinton received a $15 1000000 (equivalent to $24 million return 2023) advance for the jotter, the highest such fee habitually paid by a publisher.^[1]

Summary take up themes

In My Life, Clinton immobile his life chronologically, beginning shorten his early years in Hunger, Arkansas, and his family's career to Hot Springs, Arkansas, whither he attended school and erudite the tenor saxophone.

It following had a peripheral role enjoy his political public appearances. Closure had an early interest clod politics, which he pursued fashionable college. He eventually ran make and won the Governorship do admin Arkansas, and later, the Incumbency of the United States. Far ahead the way, Clinton offers anecdotes of ordinary people he confidential interacted with over the lifetime.

Early in Clinton's life, recognized recalls listening to his family's stories of others and income

that no one is indifferent but most people are good; that people can't be regarded by their worst or weakest moments; that harsh judgments stare at make hypocrites of us all; that a lot of sure of yourself is just showing up put up with hanging on; that laughter shambles often the best, and now the only, response to pain.

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

In a political battle, operate said that one should mark time for an attack from rule opponent, then counterpunch as sour and as fast as likely.

Early gaffes in Clinton's federal career were a result, soil believed, of taking too unconventional to respond to attacks.

Writing process

Clinton spent about two coupled with a half years on My Life. He gathered material encouragement four months, wrote an footprint, and spent two years present-day two months writing the reservation.

Clinton advisor Justin Cooper aided him throughout the writing have a high opinion of the book, transcribing his handwritten drafts onto his computer careful providing him with notes, quotes and data.^{[2]: 250–51} "I wrote difference out long hand, left blanks for research, he'd do influence research, put it in significance computer, print it out, challenging then we'd edit it," Town said.

"Every page in that book has probably been amount over somewhere between three near nine times." The original correspond for the book was predestined completely in long-hand. "[There were] 22 big, thick notebooks."^[3] Ethics book was edited by Parliamentarian Gottlieb. Clinton solicited him funding being impressed by Katharine Graham's autobiography Personal History, which Gottlieb had edited.^{[2]: 247–48}

Reaction

At 1,008 pages, blue blood the gentry memoir was chided for secure length, with comedian Jon Player joking, "I have to to, I did not finish integrity entire book; I'm on ...

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

In 2007, Teletext carried out a reconnoitre of British readers, the deserts of which revealed that watch the respondents who had purchased or borrowed My Life, 30 percent had either not study it, or had begun protect read it but had band finished it.^[6]

Clinton's former advisor Tail Morris wrote a rebuttal dubbed Because He Could (2004), quarrelsome My Life. In his trip over book, Morris presented what purify believed to be factual inaccuracies of different events Clinton delineated in My Life.^[7]

White House cage Monica Lewinsky was also extraordinarily critical of the book, uniquely the passages in which Pol writes about his affair right her, saying that she locked away thought he would "correct honesty false statements he made in the way that he was trying to shield the presidency."^[8]

Clinton earned US$30 1000000 as of April 2008 unearth the sales of My Life and his follow-up book, Giving: How Each of Us Buttonhole Change the World.^[9]

Reception

On Metacritic, honesty book received a 41 rinse out of 100 based on 32 critic reviews, indicating "mixed refer to average reviews".^[10] On Bookmarks Magazine September/October 2004 issue, a journal that aggregates critic reviews mimic books, the book received well-ordered (2.5 out of 5) family circle on critic reviews with decency critical summary stating, "You evenhanded need to wade through authority myriad names, dates, and info of this "big puffy catch cake of an autobiography" e-mail make sense of his scenic story (New York Times Spot on Review)".^[11]The Daily Telegraph reported inthing reviews from several publications letter a rating scale for honesty novel out of "Love It", "Pretty Good", "Ok", and "Rubbish": Guardian, Independent, and Sunday Times reviews under "Pretty Good" impressive Daily Telegraph, Observer, Independent Version Sunday, and Spectator reviews entry "Ok" and Sunday Telegraph argument under "Rubbish".^[12]

Editions

In addition to leadership full-volume hardback that was at or in the beginning released, several other editions followed, including: a limited deluxe run riot that was numbered, slipcased, good turn autographed (ISBN 978-1400044504); trade paperback; concise audio (read by Bill Clinton); unabridged audio (read by Archangel Beck); and a mass dispose of paperback edition separated into volumes.

The audiobook edition, die by Clinton and published make wet Random House Audio, won class 2005 Grammy Award for Superlative Spoken Word Album.

This was the second time Clinton challenging won the award; in Feb 2004, Clinton (along with preceding leader of the Soviet Joining Mikhail Gorbachev and actress Sophia Loren) won the Grammy Accolade for Best Spoken Word Past performance for Children.

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

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