Highwire

Highwire takes readers on a journey from a small Southern state to the pinnacle of national power, and introduces a cast of characters that is the most dramatic to hit the White House since Nancy Reagan consulted her astrologer. Center stage in this psychodrama is Bill Clinton, playing the role of a man Americans have elected to their country's highest post without quite knowing or trusting him. Again and again in his first year in office - whether having his back shoved against the proverbial wall on the issue of gays in the military, or in pulling off a legislative triumph, such as NAFTA,…