This collection of essays evaluates Bill Clinton's performance as president over two terms. Concerned with the interaction between his leadership and the changing nature of the political environment, these experts offer a context for understanding Clinton's ways of governing.

President Clinton's year of crisis, which began when his affair with Monica Lewinsky hit the front pages in January 1998, engendered a host of important questions of criminal and constitutional law, public and private morality; and political and cultural conflict.