The Clinton tapes : wrestling history with the president / Taylor Branch.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Twin Recorders -- 2. Reunion -- 3. The Truman Balcony -- 4. Culture Clashes: From Bosnia to a Haircut -- 5. Passages: NAFTA. China, Whitewater -- 6. A Mother's Death and the Special Prosecutor -- 7. Clinton and the Press -- 8. Missiles in Baghdad -- 9. Supreme Court Choices -- 10. Foreign Travels -- 11. Hillary's Dream -- 12. Haiti: The Brink of War -- 13. Yeltsin and the Gingrich Revolution -- 14. Tirades: "I Really Let Them Have It" -- 15. Bailout, Bombs, and Recovery -- 16. Oklahoma City -- 17. Girding for Showdown -- 18. Pope John Paul II: "Tell Me How You See the World" -- 19. The Murder of Rabin -- 20. Triumph and Fury: "You Live to Have Only a Few Days Like That" -- 21. Family Feuds: From Greenspan to Saddam Hussein -- 22. Primary Season -- 23. Terrorism, Welfare Reform, and the Chicago Convention -- 24. Reelection 1996 -- 25. Bittersweet Renewal -- 26. Whitewater Tapes: On the High Wire -- 27. "I Think They're Pretty Good Rumors" -- 28. The Jones Case -- 29. Chinese Land Mines -- 30. Buddy and Socks -- 31. Lewinsky -- 32. Impeached -- 33. The Trial -- 34. Kosovo, Columbine, and Kashmir -- 35. To the Millennium: Peacemakers and Treason -- 36. On to New Hampshire -- 37. Camp David -- 38. Jerusalem and the Three Ps -- 39. Deadlock 2000: "This Election Is Tight as a Tick" -- 40. Farewell.

While still a sitting president, Bill Clinton initiated a project to preserve for historians an unfiltered record of presidential experience. Clinton talks intimately over seven years to his long-time friend, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, about what it's like to be president, highlighting major events from Clinton's two terms, including war in Bosnia, the antideficit crusade, health reform failure, antterrorist strikes, peace initiatives, the 1996 re-election campaign, and Whitewater investigations culminating in his 1999 impeachment trial.--Publisher description.