LONDON, April 23 /PRNewswire/ --

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A WOMAN IN CHARGE: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton, written by award-winning journalist and best-selling author Carl Bernstein, will be published in June, it was announced today by Sonny Mehta, Chairman and Editor in Chief of the Knopf Publishing Group, US publisher of A WOMAN IN CHARGE. The book, a biography of Senator Clinton that covers her life up through her decision to run for president, will go on sale nationwide on June 19.

"Hillary Clinton is one of the most compelling figures in the world today," Mehta said, "and Carl Bernstein's stunning portrait shows us, for the first time, the true trajectory of her life and career. I believe his book will stand as the most detailed, comprehensive, and revealing account we have of a woman who helped define one presidency and may well step into another."

Bernstein, who shared a Pulitzer Prize with Bob Woodward for their reporting on Watergate for The Washington Post, has spent the last eight years working on this book. He interviewed more than two hundred people, including friends, colleagues, and adversaries of Hillary's, both on and off the record. The result is a nuanced and thorough look at her life to date.

Bernstein's reporting in A WOMAN IN CHARGE reveals Senator Clinton's complex relationship with her disciplinarian father, examines the early development of her deep religious feelings, and looks at her time at Wellesley and Yale Law School, where her political ideals took shape. It also looks at her courtship with Bill Clinton and the amazing dynamic of their marriage, during the most trying of circumstances and times; it shows the extent to which she was instrumental in the triumphs and troubles of her husband's governorship and presidency; and it untangles her relationship to Whitewater, Troopergate, and Travelgate. Finally, it details her successful run for Senate and remarkable rise to a dominant role in the Democratic party, and it sheds light on her own political brilliance and blind spots.

"In recent years, Hillary Clinton has emerged triumphantly into the political limelight," said Caroline Gascoigne, Hutchinson Publishing Director. "As she sets her sights on the White House, Carl Bernstein's meticulously researched biography tracks what has been a complex, and fascinating, personal and political journey. Hutchinson is thrilled to be publishing what will undoubtedly be the definitive portrait of one of the most powerful women in the world."

A WOMAN IN CHARGE addresses important questions about one of the most interesting figures in recent American history: Who is Hillary Rodham Clinton? What is her character? What is her political philosophy? And, most important, what can we expect from her?

A WOMAN IN CHARGE will be published in the UK by Hutchinson, an imprint of the Random House Group.

Alfred A. Knopf is the flagship imprint of the Knopf Publishing Group, which is a division of Random House, Inc. in the US, whose parent company is Bertelsmann AG, the international media company.

A WOMAN IN CHARGE: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton

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By Carl Bernstein (author photo available as JPEG)

640 pages

On sale date: June 19, 2007

Also available simultaneously from Random House Audio

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    Random House UK
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LONDON, April 23 /PRNewswire/ --

Source: The Random House Group Ltd