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Alter egos : Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and the twilight struggle over American power / Mark Landler.

by Landler, Mark, author.

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New York : Random House, c2016.

Clinton, Hillary Rodham.

United States -- Foreign relations -- 2009-

9780812998856 (hardback) :

0812998855 (hardback)

xxiii, 406 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Prologue: The warrior and the priest -- Worlds apart -- From Cairo to Copenhagen -- Origins -- Hillary and the brass -- Holbrooke Agonistes -- War and peace -- Below the waterline -- Peacemakers -- Sinking sands -- Post-Q -- Red lines -- Diplomacy -- The back channel -- Resets and regrets -- The pivot -- The lady and Havana -- Epilogue: Two campaigns.

"New York Times White House correspondent Mark Landler goes behind the speeches and press conferences, to the Situation Room debates and picnic-table lunches, where Obama and Clinton honed their two competing worldviews: his, cautious, inward-looking, suffused with a sense of limits; hers, muscular, optimistic, unabashedly old-fashioned. Alter Egos is about two ambitious political archrivals from very different backgrounds who became partners for a time, trailblazers who share a common sense of their historical destiny but who hold fundamentally different beliefs about how to project American power. With all the sweep of a grand history--and enlivened by an insider's access and plenty of news--Landler digs deep into the complex relationship between these two leaders and gives us a different way to think about Obama's legacy and Clinton's promise"--

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