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About Bill Clinton

William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the attorney general of Arkansas from 1977 to 1979, the governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981, and governor again from 1983 to 1992. His centrist Third Way political philosophy became known as Clintonism, which defined his presidency and the succeeding decades of Democratic Party into the 21st century.

Born and raised in Arkansas, Clinton graduated from Georgetown University in 1968, and later from Yale Law School, where he met his future wife, Hillary Rodham. After graduating from law school, Clinton returned to Arkansas and won election as state attorney general, followed by two non-consecutive tenures as Arkansas governor. As governor, he overhauled the state's education system and served as chairman of the National Governors Association. Running as a "New Democrat", Clinton was elected president in the 1992 election, defeating the incumbent Republican president George H. W. Bush, and the independent businessman Ross Perot. He became the first president to be born in the Baby Boomer generation and the youngest to serve two full terms.

Clinton presided over the longest American period of peacetime economic expansion at the time. He signed into law the North American Free Trade Agreement, the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act and the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act but failed to pass his plan for national health care reform, and accepted a controversial compromise policy to his original plan to allow gay and lesbian servicemembers serve openly in the military. Starting in the mid-1990s, after Democrats were soundly…

Bill Clinton writes about United States, Politics and government, Presidents, 1993-2001, Bill Clinton (1946-), and United States. Their best-known work is The President is Missing: A novel.

On FindMyTBR we track 10 books by Bill Clinton, 8 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including At give - Sådan kan vi hver især ændre verden, Back to Work: Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy (Unabridged), and Citizen. Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.