NC Bookwatch

William Chafe, Bill and Hillary

Season 15 Episode 1541 | 26m 46s  | Video has closed captioning.

In Bill and Hillary: The Politics of the Personal, the distinguished historian William H. Chafe boldly argues that the trajectory of the Clintons’ political lives can be understood only through the prism of their personal relationship. Each experienced a difficult childhood. Bill had an abusive stepfather, and his mother was in denial about the family’s pathology.