My Life - Bill Clinton

A massive book crammed with assessments of social and political life not just in America but also around the world, including the UK. In here we learn that the Clintons immediately felt like 'old friends' when they went out to dine with Tony and Cherie Blair for the first time. President Clinton admired the new British Premier, seeing in him not just a friend but also a force of good in a Europe that to American eyes seemed squabblingly divided. Most of the book, however, is focused on America and its place in the world, so we are taken from Vietnam to the Arab-Israeli conflict, and learn how much manoeuvring Clinton had to do in order to get Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat to shake hands for the cameras. Much soul-searching is involved when Clinton gets embroiled in the Monica Lewinsky story, which almost tore his family apart. The book is a candid, revealing account of how a small-town boy rose from humble beginnings to become the world's most powerful man - and managed to smile even through the bad times