Do All the Good You Can: How Faith Shaped Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Politics - Couverture rigide

Smith, Gary Scott

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0252045319 ISBN 13 : 9780252045318

Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2023

Synopsis

Methodism in the public and private lives of the politician

After more than forty contentious years in the public eye, Hillary Rodham Clinton is one of the best-known political figures in the nation. Yet the strong religious faith at the heart of her politics and personal life often remains confounding, if not mysterious, to longtime observers. Even many of her admirers would be surprised to hear Clinton state that her Methodist outlook has "been a huge part of who I am and how I have seen the world, and what I believe in, and what I have tried to do in my life."

Gary Scott Smith's biography of Clinton's journey in faith begins with her Methodist upbringing in Park Ridge, Illinois, where she faithfully attended worship services, Sunday school, and youth group meetings. Like many mainline Protestants, Clinton's spiritual commitment developed gradually throughout childhood, while her combination of missionary zeal and impressive personal talents has informed her career from the time of her pro bono work at Yale on behalf of children to the present.

Her Methodist faith has been very important to many of Clinton's high-profile endeavors and in helping her cope with the prominent travails brought on by two presidential campaigns, never-ending conservative rancor, and her husband's infidelity. Smith's account examines Clinton's faith in the context of work ranging from her 1990s pursuit of healthcare reform to a "Hillary doctrine" of foreign policy focused on her longtime goal of providing basic human rights for children and women--a project she saw as essential to United States security. The result is an enlightening reconsideration of an extraordinary political figure who has defied private doubts and public controversy to live by John Wesley's dictum: "Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can."

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Gary Scott Smith is a professor of history emeritus at Grove City College. His many books include Mark Twain: Prophet, Preacher, and Social Philosopher.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Illinois Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0252045319
• ISBN 13: 9780252045318
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
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• Personne responsable: non disponible