Hillary Rodham Clinton: On The Couch

by Alma H. Bond

Overview

Who exactly is Hillary Clinton? Because she announced her candidacy for President in April 2015, and thus could well become the first woman ever to be U.S. President, the question becomes all the more relevant ... and important.

Fortunately, woman's biographer Alma H. Bond, a Manhattan psychoanalyst for 37 years, has read just about everything ever published about the former First Lady, U.S. Senator, and Secretary of State, and has written a fascinating, highly readable, and intimate book burning through a great many myths about HRC.

• What were her parents like, and what lasting effects did they have on her?
• How did her upbringing make her the person she became?
• How does she deal with her womanizing husband, and why will she never divorce him?
• What role does religion play in her life . . . and in her approach to policy?
• As a public official, what are her strengths and weaknesses?
• When she served as First Lady, what was she truly trying to accomplish . . . and did she succeed?
• As a U.S. senator, why was she so effective in working with members of the opposite party?
• As Secretary of State, how well did she get along with President Barack Obama?
• In what ways, if any, was her tenure as Secretary of State different from that of all her predecessors?
• To what extent is she a hawk when it comes to foreign policy?
• Was she truly at fault in the tragedy known as Benghazi?
• In her mind, how crucial is it to advance the cause of women around the world?

These . . . and many other questions are answered clearly in Dr. Bond's highly readable and remarkably intimate look at one of the most celebrated, admired, and despised women in the world.

More important, after readers turn the final page, they'll know Hillary better than they know practically anyone else.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940151364164
Publisher:	Bancroft Press
Publication date:	06/17/2015
Series:	On The Couch , #4
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	280
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Dr. Alma H. Bond is the author or co-author of more than twenty published books, among them: Jackie O: On the Couch; Marilyn Monroe: On the Couch; Michelle Obama: A Biography; The Autobiography of Maria Callas: A Novel; Margaret Mahler: A Biography of the Psychoanalyst; America’s First Woman Warrior: The Story of Deborah Sampson; and Who Killed Virginia Woolf? A Psychobiography.
Born in February 1922, Dr. Bond received her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from Columbia University, graduated from the post-doctoral program in psychoanalysis at the Freudian Society, and was a psychoanalyst in private practice for 37 years in New York City. She “retired” to become a full-time writer.

Dr. Bond is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the Dramatists Guild, and the Authors Guild, as well as a fellow and faculty member of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, the International Psychoanalytic Association, and the American Psychological Association. She was one of the first non-medical analysts to be elected to the International Psychoanalytic Association.

Dr. Bond grew up in Philadelphia, where she obtained her undergraduate degree in psychology from Temple University, and following voluntary military service, moved to New York, where she earned a graduate degree in psychology from Columbia University.
A longtime resident of New York City, she lived for nearly a dozen years in south Florida, and now resides in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

An amazing woman, she continues to swim three times a week, runs two days, writes daily, uses email proficiently, and travels.

Her next book will be Barbra Streisand: On the Couch.

Editorial Reviews

With her most recent tome, Hillary Rodham Clinton On The Couch, Dr. Alma H. Bond has once again used her skills as a psychoanalyst, combined them with extensive research, and put together a fascinating look at the life of her subject, this time the former first lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton . . . She has skillfully assembled a vivid chronicle of a strong woman who has faced immense challenges throughout her life and was able to pull through no matter how painful the journey.

BookPleasures.com - Norm Goldman

If Hillary is on your mind, this book, billed as a novel, is fact-filled, ready to answer your questions, and recommended.

Bookviews By Alan Caruba, A Charter Member of the National Book Critics Circle - Alan Caruba

Bond was a practicing psychologist for thirty-seven years before she "retired" to become an author, specializing in placing famous folks--real and fictional--on her "couch" for an old-fashioned frolic with Freud. Jackie O, Marilyn Monroe, and even Lady Macbeth got the treatment. Now, with her book, Hillary Rodham Clinton: On the Couch, the Democratic presidential candidate's turn to have her mind probed.

Foreword Reviews

...Hillary is a strong woman, but she is human just like the rest of us. She feels pain; she cries when no one is around. People seem to forget her many accomplishments. This book has opened my eyes so that I can see who, and why, Hillary is the person she is, and how she has managed to overcome so many obstacles that have come her way...

Midwest Book Review

I've read several articles in the past, but her story has more depth than I originally considered. The bibliography is quite extensive; therefore, this was getting several points of reference at once. When you consider what this woman has been through and how she persevered, it's hard not to admire her. Alma H. Bond, Ph.D. has delivered a powerful interpretation of an enigmatic figure! An extraordinary book and a great read. I think it's brilliant!

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