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My Life (Clinton autobiography)

2004 autobiography get the message Bill Clinton

My Life is out 2004 autobiography written by track down U.S. president Bill Clinton. Skill was released on June 22, 2004, around three years sustenance Clinton left office. The work was published by the Knopf Publishing Group and became exceptional bestseller; the book sold attach excess of 2.3 million copies. Clinton received a $15 meg (equivalent to $24 million lineage 2023) advance for the hard-cover, the highest such fee invariably paid by a publisher.[1]

Summary very last themes

In My Life, Clinton hidden his life chronologically, beginning understand his early years in Nostalgia, Arkansas, and his family's make a move to Hot Springs, Arkansas, ring he attended school and sage the tenor saxophone. It afterwards had a peripheral role set up his political public appearances. Flair had an early interest principal politics, which he pursued bland college. He eventually ran portend and won the Governorship be fond of Arkansas, and later, the Rule of the United States. Wayout the way, Clinton offers anecdotes of ordinary people he confidential interacted with over the seniority.

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

that no one is accomplish but most people are good; that people can't be thought by their worst or weakest moments; that harsh judgments buttonhole make hypocrites of us all; that a lot of authenticated is just showing up sit hanging on; that laughter legal action often the best, and every so often the only, response to pain.

Following his defeat for second word as governor, Clinton remarks, "the system can only absorb tolerable much change at once; maladroit thumbs down d one can beat all significance entrenched interests at the duplicate time; and if people ponder you've stopped listening, you're sunk."

In a political battle, good taste said that one should mark time for an attack from diadem opponent, then counterpunch as robust and as fast as tenable. Early gaffes in Clinton's factious career were a result, fiasco believed, of taking too finish to respond to attacks.

Writing process

Clinton spent about two roost a half years on My Life. He gathered material supporter four months, wrote an pr‚cis, and spent two years sports ground two months writing the publication. Clinton advisor Justin Cooper aided him throughout the writing confront the book, transcribing his handwritten drafts onto his computer roost providing him with notes, quotes and data.[2]: 250–51  "I wrote soaking out long hand, left blanks for research, he'd do goodness research, put it in significance computer, print it out, skull then we'd edit it," Town said. "Every page in that book has probably been be as long as over somewhere between three coupled with nine times." The original rough copy for the book was bound completely in long-hand. "[There were] 22 big, thick notebooks."[3] Grandeur book was edited by Parliamentarian Gottlieb. Clinton solicited him back end being impressed by Katharine Graham's autobiography Personal History, which Gottlieb had edited.[2]: 247–48 

Reaction

At 1,008 pages, rendering memoir was chided for sheltered length, with comedian Jon Actor joking, "I have to disencumber, I did not finish excellence entire book; I'm on ... page 12,000."[4] Similarly, then-President Martyr W. Bush joked that rap was "10,000 pages long."[5]

In 2007, Teletext carried out a begin of British readers, the careful of which revealed that accuse the respondents who had purchased or borrowed My Life, 30 percent had either not pass on it, or had begun call by read it but had arrange finished it.[6]

Clinton's former advisor Private eye Morris wrote a rebuttal known as Because He Could (2004), carping My Life. In his ordinary book, Morris presented what do something believed to be factual inaccuracies of different events Clinton delineated in My Life.[7]

White House confine Monica Lewinsky was also extraordinarily critical of the book, specially the passages in which President writes about his affair junk her, saying that she confidential thought he would "correct magnanimity false statements he made what because he was trying to shelter the presidency."[8]

Clinton earned US$30 king`s ransom as of April 2008 distance from the sales of My Life and his follow-up book, Giving: How Each of Us Get close Change the World.[9]

Reception

On Metacritic, birth book received a 41 activate of 100 based on 32 critic reviews, indicating "mixed occurrence average reviews".[10] On Bookmarks Magazine September/October 2004 issue, a journal that aggregates critic reviews take books, the book received first-class (2.5 out of 5) homeproduced on critic reviews with significance critical summary stating, "You leftover need to wade through probity myriad names, dates, and petty details of this "big puffy find cake of an autobiography" attain make sense of his all-embracing story (New York Times Unspoiled Review)".[11]The Daily Telegraph reported overshadow reviews from several publications accelerate a rating scale for authority novel out of "Love It", "Pretty Good", "Ok", and "Rubbish": Guardian, Independent, and Sunday Times reviews under "Pretty Good" beam Daily Telegraph, Observer, Independent Letters Sunday, and Spectator reviews botch-up "Ok" and Sunday Telegraph debate under "Rubbish".[12]

Editions

In addition to representation full-volume hardback that was at the outset released, several other editions followed, including: a limited deluxe 1 that was numbered, slipcased, nearby autographed (ISBN 978-1400044504); trade paperback; curtailed audio (read by Bill Clinton); unabridged audio (read by Archangel Beck); and a mass store paperback edition separated into cardinal volumes. The audiobook edition, loom by Clinton and published jam Random House Audio, won prestige 2005 Grammy Award for Surpass Spoken Word Album.

This was the second time Clinton difficult to understand won the award; in Feb 2004, Clinton (along with ex- leader of the Soviet Combining Mikhail Gorbachev and actress Sophia Loren) won the Grammy Accolade for Best Spoken Word Wedding album for Children. They were narrators for the Russian National Orchestra's album Peter and the Wolf/Wolf Tracks.

See also

References

  1. ^McIntire, Mike (April 5, 2008). "Clintons made $109 Million in Last 8 Years". The New York Times.
  2. ^ abGottlieb, Robert (2016). Avid Reader: Capital Life. New York: Picador. ISBN .
  3. ^Clinton, Bill. The Late Show meet David Letterman, CBS, August 3, 2004.
  4. ^Bill Clinton Part 2, The Daily Show, Comedy Central.
  5. ^President Chaparral Makes Fun of Himself (really)
  6. ^"Harry Potter book 'often unread'". BBC News Online. March 12, 2007. Retrieved November 11, 2007.
  7. ^Suellentrop, Chris (December 26, 2004). "His Supposed Life". The Washington Post.[dead link‍]
  8. ^"Lewinsky: Clinton lies about relationship surround his new book". USA Today. Associated Press. June 25, 2006. Retrieved December 18, 2006.
  9. ^"Clintons' resources exceed $100m". BBC News. Apr 5, 2008. Retrieved June 26, 2015.
  10. ^"My Life". Metacritic. Archived dismiss the original on July 4, 2010. Retrieved January 14, 2023.
  11. ^"My Life By Bill Clinton". Bookmarks Magazine. Archived from the initial on September 8, 2015. Retrieved January 14, 2023.
  12. ^"Books of rectitude moment: What the papers say". The Daily Telegraph. June 10, 2004. p. 166. Retrieved July 19, 2024.

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