{"product_id":"9780380802791","title":"Clinton on Clinton: A Portrait of the President in His Own Words","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Fifty years ago, when I was born in a summer storm to a widowed mother in a little town in Arkansas, it was unthinkable that I might ever become President.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Like other people, I have had crises in my life, personal crises, personal failures, the sense that I had let myself and others down, the sense that maybe I'd never be the person God wanted me to be.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe was the first president to represent the baby-boom generation and the last president of the twentieth century. An activist chief executive whose ambition was to \"build a bridge\" to a rapidly changing American future, he was the product of a small Arkansas upbringing steeped in tradition. Now, here is a portrait of William Jefferson Clinton, a brilliant and complex man and leader, in the words of the one person who knows him best: himself. Here are the most fascinating and revealing glimpses into one of the most quotable presidents of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"We must never let a blizzard of statistics blind us to the real people and the real lives behind them.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"There's a poll saying that forty percent of the American people think Hillary's smarter than I am. What I don't understand is how the other sixty percent missed it.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47010979512560,"sku":"9780380802791","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780380802791_p0.jpg?v=1763694099","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780380802791","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}