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

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Alter egos

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Mark Landler

Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and the twilight struggle over American power

-- Alter Egos In the annals of American statecraft, theirs was a most unlikely alliance. Clinton, daughter of an anticommunist father, was raised in the Republican suburbs of Chicago in the aftermath of World War II, nourishing an unshakable belief in the United States as a force for good in distant lands. Obama, an itinerant child of the 1970s, was raised by a single mother in Indonesia and Hawaii, suspended between worlds and a witness to the less savory side of Uncle Sam's influence abroad. Clinton and Obama would later come to embody competing visions of America's role in the world: his, restrained, inward-looking, painfully aware of limits; hers, hard-edged, pragmatic, unabashedly old-fashioned. Spanning the arc of Obama's two terms, -- Advance praise for -- Alter Egos "Mark Landler, one of the best reporters working in Washington today, delivers an inside account of Hillary Clinton's relationship with Barack Obama that brims with insight and high-level intrigue. It's both fun to read and eye-opening. -- "Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right From the Hardcover edition

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

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