Bill Clinton is an American lawyer and retired politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001, and he is best known for that office and his centrist Third Way approach, which became known as Clintonism. Before the presidency he was attorney general and twice governor of Arkansas. His books include the memoir My Life and First Gentleman, a political thriller he co-wrote with James Patterson about the abduction of a president's husband.
