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London, June 2 (ANI): Hillary Clinton, the frontrunner to become the next American president, suffered serious bouts of depression when she was the U.S. First Lady in 1994. According to former Watergate scandal journalist Carl Bernstein, Hillary also displayed persistent signs of melancholy as a student. Bernstein quotes David Gergen, then a senior Clinton aide, as saying: "I don't know whether she was seeing a doctor or not but she was depressed" in his book -- "A Woman in Charge" in 1994, a year after her husband, Bill Clinton became president. The book says Clinton's "emotional state" was "as fragile...

WOMAN IN CHARGE: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton By Carl Bernstein Knopf, 628 pages, $35.95 What a story! A grinning little girl in a nice suburb. The usual patriarchal, dysfunctional family. She's eager to please a demanding daddy, and good at things. Never good enough, of course. By high school, she's well-armoured, not pretty, not plain, but bright, sharp, sensitive, sensible, proud in her armour. The boys call her "Miss Frigidaire." She's ambitious, goes to a posh women's college, begins to bloom. She's avidly yet cautiously political, works in both parties opposing the Vietnam War. She's avidly yet cautiously...

**snip** During his research, Bernstein made a number of discoveries that clashed with the New York senator's own account of her life. These include the fact that her father "humiliated and abused" his wife, that she kept failure in her bar exam secret for 30 years, and the extraordinary lengths she went to to suppress the details of her husband's infidelities, which repeatedly threatened to derail his political career. This she did not only by hiring private detectives to investigate his lovers, but also by obtaining signed legal statements from them saying that they had not had sex with her...

WASHINGTON — If Americans elect Senator Clinton as president next year, they will also be re-electing her husband, according to the author of a new biography of the former first lady. Carl Bernstein, one of the reporters who broke the Watergate scandal which brought down President Nixon, told the Daily Telegraph that the couple would operate a joint presidency in which President Clinton would advise on policy and tactics as well as act as troubleshooter.

The Times of London is publishing portions of Carl Bernstein's biography of Hillary Clinton online. Anybody interested in learning more about the world's smartest woman can check out the following installments: The pain of being Hillary Her husband was president, now Hillary Clinton is Democratic frontrunner in the White House race. In a world exclusive, she reveals the sacrifices she has made for power Hillary's impossible men, starting with her father Early life putting up with a demanding patriarch and echoes of Hillary's future marriage Her other man (Vince Foster) As Hillary Clinton emerges as frontrunner to be America’s next...

Some people would later say that Vince Foster – tall, with impeccable manners and a formal mien – worshipped Hillary Clinton from the start, or that he had been awed by her from the time they met, or that he had never met a woman like her who was so whip-smart and almost sassy. What is unquestionable is that he and Hillary grew incredibly close. For the next 20 years the relationship would confound Foster’s wife (but not Bill Clinton), their colleagues at the Rose law firm in Little Rock, Arkansas, and the White House, and women who had known...

Drawing on a trove of private papers from Hillary Clinton’s best friend, the legendary Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein is to publish a hard-hitting and intimate portrait of the 2008 presidential candidate, which will reveal a number of “discrepancies” in her official story. Bernstein, who was played by Dustin Hoffman in the film All the President’s Men, has spent eight years researching the unauthorised 640-page biography, A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton. “Bernstein reaches conclusions that stand in opposition to what Senator Clinton has said in the past and has written in the past,” said Paul Bogaards,...

Hillary Clinton, the frontrunner to become the next US president, has suffered serious bouts of depression, according to a new book by one of the journalists who broke the Watergate scandal. Carl Bernstein's A Woman in Charge details how she showed "persistent signs of melancholy" when she was a student and quotes a White House adviser saying she was "deeply depressed" in 1994, a year after her husband, Bill, became president. Carl Bernstein's A Woman in Charge profiles Hillary Clinton Due to be published on Tuesday, the book could damage the New York senator's ambition to become America's first female...

Bill Clinton was ready to divorce Hillary to be with one of his lovers, according to a book out next month. The marriage crisis is said to have ended with his wife talking him out of the move, telling a friend "there are worse things than infidelity". The story is among a string of revelations in two books detailing Mrs Clinton's rise to the U.S. Senate and her push for the presidency. Both works document her husband's many affairs when he was governor of Arkansas. Carl Bernstein claims in A Woman in Charge that the love of the former president's...