Looks at the political partnership of Bill and Hillary Clinton and how their personal relationship affected it, in a book that covers health care, Ken Starr, welfare reform, Hillary Clinton's unprecedented powers as First Lady, and the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

It was 1863. Abraham Galloway--son of a white father and an enslaved mother--stood next to the Army recruiter, holding a gun to the soldier's head. He had escaped slavery in the hold--of a ship four years earlier, fleeing to Canada, then became a master spy for the Union Army. Now, in the days after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, Galloway had returned to North Carolina, becoming the leader of more than 4,000 escaped slaves who...