Word: troy
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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While Hillary fans looking for a more up-to-date examination of the senator may be disappointed, Troy provides a detailed, thorough, and fair study for those interested in Clinton’s life...
...more effective aspects of the book, Troy uses Clinton’s time as the first lady as a window to examine her position in the mindset of the American people...
...Troy draws comparisons with women who tried to revolutionize the role of first lady (Eleanor Roosevelt, Betty Ford), as well as their more cautious counterparts (Jackie Kennedy, Barbara Bush...
...Troy does not only use Hillary Clinton as a way to discuss the past politics of America’s most powerful unofficial office: he also attempts to examine some more contemporary issues. Troy alludes to the idea that Hillary’s experience influenced, and was in turn shaped by, the issue of turn-of-the-millennium female roles...
...Troy frequently refers to Hillary as a feminist first lady, and implicitly links what he views as Hillary’s struggle to find the perfect balance between wife, mother, and “co-president” to the discussion of a woman’s role in the United States. “She rejected the simple media polarities whereby traditionalists were happy homemakers and feminists were humorless careerists,” he writes. “Hillary Rodham Clinton set out to prove to feminists and anti-feminists alike that modern career women could be good...