''Between Hope and History: Meeting America's Challenges for the 21st Century'' is a 1996 book by then-incumbent

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Bill Clinton William Jefferson Clinton ( né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and agai ...

. It was published by

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in September 1996 in the lead up to the 1996 US presidential election, partly as a means to reach out to the electorate. ''

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'' described it as "A snapshot of President Clinton's " New Democratic" philosophy as he segues from his first to (he hopes) his second term."Robin Toner, ''The New York Times Book Review'', September 22, 1996, p. 7.

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