[Updated: June 4, 2003] Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's tell-all book "Living History" debuts June 9 with a million copies in print and a seven-figure advance in hand. The Associated Press has an advance copy -- and reports Mrs. Clinton wrote she did not know the truth about the Lewinsky affair until the day before her husband was to testify before a grand jury. According to the AP, Mrs. Clinton writes she could "hardly breathe" once she heard what had really happened. And while Mrs. Clinton tells her story her way, let Maryland's experts take you beyond the narrative to the depth of coverage and evaluation you need for background and analysis.
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Hillary Clinton As First Lady
Robin Gerber, senior fellow, Academy of Leadership, University of MarylandExpertise: Women's history and political leadership, lobbying and the future of the labor movement.
Credentials: Former assistant general counsel and political and legislative director for the United Brotherhood of Carpenters. In 1992 she served on the Democratic National Convention Platform Committee. Gerber's writings have appeared in The Washington Post, USA Today and other publications.
Web Site: http://www.academy.umd.edu/aboutus/staff/rgerber.htm_______________________________________________________________
Keith Olson, professor of history, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Maryland
Expertise: Presidents in the 20th century
Credentials: Extensive writings about presidents and their administrations during The 20th century. Newest book is about Watergate. A book about the Eisenhower administration is underway. He has appeared extensively in print, on the radio and TV talking about 20th-century presidential history.
Web Site: http://www.history.umd.edu/Bio/olsonk.html
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Hillary Clinton As Politician
William Galston, Saul Stern Professor of Civic Engagement, school of public affairs; director, institute for philosophy and public policy
Expertise: American politics, campaigns, elections, education, family policy, domestic policy
Credentials: Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy during the first Clinton Administration and Executive Director of the National Commission on Civic Renewal, which was chaired by Sam Nunn and William Bennett. He has served as Director of Economic and Social Programs at the Roosevelt Center for American Policy Studies in Washington, D.C., as chief speechwriter for John Anderson's National Unity campaign, as issues director for Walter Mondale's presidential campaign and as senior advisor to Albert Gore Jr. during his run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1991-1992.
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The Rhetorical Hillary Clinton
Shawn J. Parry-Giles, professor of communication, women's studies; director, Center for Political Communication and Civic Leadership, University of Maryland
Expertise: presidential image making; propaganda; rhetorical, feminist and media criticism
Credentials: ongoing research into presidential and first lady discourse; book-length examination of the media coverage of Hillary Rodham Clinton; author, The Rhetorical Presidency, Propaganda, and the Cold War, 1945-1955
Web site: http://www.wam.umd.edu/~spg/
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Media Coverage and Criticism Of Hillary Clinton Maurine Beasley, professor of journalism, Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland
Expertise: women journalists and their portrayal of first ladies
Credentials: former education editor of the Kansas City (Mo.) Star and a former staff writer for The Washington Post. Beasley is a specialist in the subject of women's portrayal and participation in journalism.
Web site: http://www.journalism.umd.edu/faculty/mbeasley/ Susan Moeller, professor of journalism, Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland
Expertise: media analysis and media criticism; coverage of international crises and war
Credentials: books include Compassion Fatigue: How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War and Death, a study of how American print and broadcast media cover international crises, and Shooting War: Photography and the American Experience of Combat, which analyzes how 20th century photographic images shaped American attitudes toward war; Fulbright Professor of International Affairs in Islamabad, Pakistan and Bangkok, Thailand
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