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Book · 2004 · Biography & Autobiography

My Life

by Bill Clinton · Recommended by 4 people on 3 podcasts

Why people recommend it

My Life by Bill Clinton is the extensive political autobiography of the former U.S. president, chronicling his rise from a modest upbringing in Arkansas through his two terms in the White House. On Breaking Points, Emily Jashinsky offered a sharp critique of the memoir, dismissing it as complete political propaganda. Conversely, on Behind the Bastards, Robert Evans and his co-host referenced a specific, colorful passage from the 2005 book where Clinton uniquely described Tony Alamo as resembling Roy Orbison on speed. On The Joe Rogan Experience, Joe Rogan repeatedly brought up the memoir across multiple episodes, expressing fascination with a particular anecdote in which Clinton recalls a conversation with a carpenter about the historic moon landing while working a youthful construction job. Rogan used this passage to muse about presidential memoirs and historical memory. Across different podcast formats, speakers occasionally revisit Clinton's autobiography either to critique its political narrative or to highlight eccentric personal anecdotes embedded within its pages.

Who recommended it

Joe Rogan — 4 mentions
Discussed
“I also think that's how Bill Clinton wrote his autobiography my life yeah”
Discussed
“I know what Clinton said in his book I wrote a book called my life and in one of the chapters in my life he talks about a conversation that he had with a carpenter when people landed on the moon he was working in a construction site”
Discussed
“Bill Clinton uh wrote this book called my life and uh in his book my life he had a a whole quote about um about the moon here”
Discussed
“Clinton wrote a book my life”
Robert Evans — 2 mentions
Discussed
“in his 2005 book my life Clinton described Tony Al as Roy Orbison on speed a description that doesn't make a lot of sense to me”
Discussed
“um in his 2005 book my life Clinton described Tony Al as Roy Orbison on speed”
Emily Jashinsky — 1 mention
Critiqued
“I only read My Life, which is complete propaganda, by the way. It's just laughable.”
Greg Fitzsimmons — 1 mention
Discussed
“and also one of the weirder things about the moon hoax see if you can find this quote it's from bill bill clinton's book He's got this book called i think it's called uh i think it's called my life um and he talks about how when he was young he was working on a construction site...”

Also mentioned in the same episodes

Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
Passing
“I also think that's how Bill Clinton wrote his autobiography, My Life. Yeah, he wrote, I'm 99% sure he wrote it by hand.”