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...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...
When describing the Clintons’ moves from Arkansas to the White House, Troy, who earned his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from Harvard, writes, “Like valedictorians from small Arkansas high schools who assumed they would ace their Harvard classes, both Hillary and Bill Clinton were surprised by how hard everything had become...
Similarly, the inclusion of sources and information from both sides of the bipartisan divide—Troy analyzes everything from political cartoons to poll numbers and text from speeches—means that readers get a detailed look at Clinton’s White House years. Troy’s approach, though at times overwhelming, is ultimately one of the books strongest points...