Bill clinton biography review

In the introduction of his new memoir, Citizen: My Life After the White House , Bill Clinton writes that when he left office in January, , he was determined not to spend a day of his life wishing he were still U. The nowyear-old admits there have since been exceptions to that self-imposed rule: There was the election, for one, then the COVID pandemic.

And, of course, the Jan. In other words, basically anything to do with Donald Trump. Twenty-plus years of self-reflection have helped Clinton point out his own shortcomings during his White House years. While well-written and worth the read, however, the book is not nearly as self-analytical and self-critical as I would have hoped.

There is no real reckoning and sense of struggle with himself. Clinton could have used the book to put forth real insight — especially since this autobiography, his second, could well be his last. While he seems to make amends, he neglects to connect any lessons learned to the world as it is now. The genocide in Rwanda is one of them.

The mass killings of minority Tutsis inflicted by leaders of the majority Hutu Tribe resulted in , murders in just 90 days.

This long book about himself has the same ultimately dreary impersonality.

Melvin asked if the former president had apologized to Lewinsky in person. Clinton answered that he had apologized to her and everyone else he had wronged. Melvin persisted that Clinton had not apologized to Lewinsky, according to the people his team had spoken to. Another shadow: Jeffrey Epstein.