The Clinton Tapes by Taylor Branch
Taylor Branch's account of his secret conversations with the US president raises fascinating questions about how history is made, writes Gaby Wood
On 14 October 1993, nine months into Bill Clinton's presidency, roughly where we are now in Obama's, historian Taylor Branch arrived at the White House and set two tape recorders on a desk that had once belonged to Ulysses S Grant. It was to be the first of 79 secret recordings he would make with the president over the next eight years.
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Sunday, 11 October, 2009
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